The Murdoch University School of Law is pleased to invite your law school to compete in the 13th International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot Competition. The Competition will be hosted by Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Law, Brisbane Australia. We look forward to welcoming competitors to this wonderful Australian city.
The oral component of the competition requires each team to argue four times in the general rounds, twice for the claimant and twice for the respondent. Distinguished members of the legal profession, judiciary and shipping industry participate as arbitrators.
Awards are presented in the following categories:
- Best memorandum for the Claimant
- Best memorandum for the Respondent
- Highest Ranked team in the General Rounds
- Best speaker in the General Rounds
- Encouragement Award( team and/or individual) and the Sarah Derrington Award
- Best speaker in the Finals and the Ron Salter Award
- Runner Up - Best speaker in the Finals
- Runner up Team - Orals
- Winning Team – Orals
- Spirit of the Moot award
The moot is a competition open to any law students (either undergraduate or postgraduate) who have not been admitted to practice. The moot problem will involve a dispute relating to commercial maritime law and the controversy will be determined before an arbitral tribunal pursuant to the L.M.A.A. terms (2006) or other recognised terms. Students need not have previously studied maritime law and in fact several past winning teams had no prior knowledge of maritime law before undertaking the moot.
An enjoyable social program accompanies the competition to enable students to meet with senior members of the profession and the maritime industry and to forge contacts with students from other law schools.
Details of the competition, together with the registration form for 2012, can be found at: http://www.law.murdoch.edu.au/maritimemoot/index.html
The website also contains the problem from previous years and the winning memoranda.
Enquiries about registration should be forwarded to the moot’s co-ordinator, Miriam Everall: m.everall@murdoch.edu.au .
I hope your Law School will consider participating in this rigorous yet enjoyable competition. I look forward to welcoming your team for the 2012 competition.
Yours sincerely
Kate Lewins
Moot Director
K.Lewins@murdoch.edu.au
September 2011
THE 2012 IMLAM MOOT IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY MARITIME LAW ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (QUEENSLAND BRANCH)
Teams are encouraged to register as soon as possible so as to take advantage of access to the i-law (Informa - Lloyds) database. Teams will be allocated a login upon registration. Our thanks to Informa for continuing its generous sponsorship of this competition.
The organisers thank Informa Publishing for providing access to its databases for teams registered in this moot competition
