Moots
From our Mooting Students
Below are short tales of our students' mooting experiences.
 by Keri Gammon, 2007-2008 Articling Student
In February 2006, Dalhousie participated in the Gale Cup Moot in Toronto. The case before this year's mooters involved the question of a driver's constitutional right to legal counsel prior to questioning and physical sobriety testing during a roadside stop. Dal's team was made up of four third year students: Matt Asma, Keri Gammon, Josie McKinney and Peter Planetta, and they were coached by Frank Hoskins, Chief Crown attorney of the Public Prosecution Service's Halifax Region.
Dalhousie's Appellants were awarded the Justice Cory prize for best factum, and the team also came home with the PAJLO/POLAJ Book Prize for finishing as the top Anglophone team not in the final round.
by Anna Silver, 2007-2008 Articling Student
In November 2005, Anna was a competitor in the Peter Burns Moot, a competitive criminal trial. Appearing as Crown Counsel, Anna was selected as a Moot finalist, together with Michael Barrenger, and went on to compete as co-counsel in the MacIntyre Cup for the Western Regional Finals, only this time appearing as Defence Counsel. The UBC team were selected as finalists at the MacIntyre Cup and moved on to compete in the National Trial Advocacy Competition, the Sopinka Cup. The charges for all the rounds of competition of the moot were dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving causing death. After facing teams from U of Manitoba, U of New Brunswick, two teams from U of Ottawa, U of Toronto, U of Montreal, and U of Calgary, the UBC team finished in second place in the team category and Anna won awards for Best Direct Examination and Best Overall Advocate. For winning the top individual oralist prize, Anna will be delivering an address to the American College of Trial Lawyers in London, England. The UBC team was coached by Richard Cairns, Q.C., and Karima Andani, both with the Attorney General's office.
by Lisa Kerr, 2006-2007 Articling Student
UBC recently won the 2004 Corporate/Securities Moot, a competition which is known as "UBC-territory". The team, consisting of second-year students Lisa Kerr, Catherine Anderson, Adam Kaminsky, Dino Rossi, and Shannon Salter, finished first in the round-robin portion of the competition, after facing teams from Dalhousie, Western Ontario, Windsor, and Calgary. The final round was before a panel consisting of Justices Laskin and Blair of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Justice Farley of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List), Paul Moore, Q.C. of the Ontario Securities Commission, and the Hon. Alan Gold, Q.C., a former law professor and judge, and currently of counsel to Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg in Montreal.
When the dust settled, UBC finished first overall in the competition, making it four wins in a row, and eight wins in the last twelve years.
by Elin Sigurdson, 2006-2007 Articling Student
The question of whether young people who are enthusiastic and engaged in politics, but who are under the age of 18, should be able to vote consumed a group of law students for two months this year. The debate about whether these age restrictions are discriminatory according to s. 15 of the Charter culminated in the annual Wilson Moot at the Federal courts in Toronto. This moot was established in 1992 to honour the outstanding contribution to Canadian law made by Madam Justice Bertha Wilson. The goal of the Wilson Moot is to explore legal issues concerning women and minorities and thereby to promote the education of students and the legal profession in these areas. The 2004 Wilson Moot team consisted of members Agnes Huang, Elin Sigurdson, Kristy Sim, Stephen Takahashi and Holman Wang. They were supported by their faculty advisors Robin Elliot and Margot Young, and through the generous sponsorship of Heenan Blaikie. This year the UBC Wilson mooters competed against six Ontario law schools and McGill Law. They performed very well in the competition, and came home with the first place factum award.
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