The annual Judicial Review Moot Competition provides students with an excellent opportunity to apply planning and environmental law in a public law context and gain insight into some of Chambers’ key practice areas prior to applying for pupillage.
The competition comprises of three knock-out rounds followed by a Grand Final, which traditionally takes place at the Royal Courts of Justice. The two individual competitors who obtain the highest scores in the Grand Final will each be awarded £500 and the opportunity to undertake a mini-pupillage in Chambers.
Judicial Review Moot Competition 2020-2021
Following the success of the past two years, the event will be running for LLB, LLM, GDL or BPTC students for the third consecutive year.
The first round of the competition will take place on Saturday 14 November 2020 as a virtual event. During the first round every student who enters the moot will be provided with the opportunity not only to hone their research, drafting and advocacy skills, but also to hear more from the Barristers about life at Landmark and at the Planning and Environmental Bar. To that end, and in addition to the moots themselves, competitors will be given the opportunity to participate in a Planning and Environmental law workshop with members of Chambers’ Planning and Environmental Teams and ask the Landmark Pupillage Committee questions about the pupillage application process and the structure of pupillage itself.
Landmark are aware that there are some areas of planning and environmental practice which remain wholly unfamiliar to students and, whilst all moot problems will be public law based, they emphasise that no prior knowledge of planning or environmental law is required in order to participate. Furthermore, they will endeavour to provide useful resources such as sample skeleton arguments in order to assist competitors with participating in the moots.
Entering a Team
The team will be chosen by this years committee and we will be hosting prior to the event another event to choose the students participating.
https://www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/pupillage-recruitment/judicial-review-moot/