City Law School continues mooting success at ECHR
updated on 07 March 2014
A team of students from City Law School has won the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition. The team of four, three of whom are studying the BPTC at City and one who is at The University of Law, beat leading teams from throughout Europe.
The moot began in August 2013 with teams asked to examine a fictitious case and submit a written argument. Seventy-two teams entered, with just 16 chosen to travel to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg to plead the case during the final rounds.
The City team triumphed in the final against the University of Athens, judged by nine human rights law experts. Members of the team have won a month-long traineeship at the ECHR. Clare Brown, law lecturer at City and barrister at 2 Temple Gardens, is the team's coach. She said: "The quality of the advocacy has been superb and it has been a privilege to sit behind the team from City. Their submissions and responses to questions have been of an exceptionally high standard. They are deserving winners of both this prestigious title and the opportunity to train at the European Court of Human Rights."
City Law School has a strong record of success in mooting. In 2013 alone, two of its BPTC students took the top prize at the Human Rights Lawyers Association Judicial Review Mooting Competition and two others won the 13th Commonwealth Student Moot held in South Africa.
