Legal mooting provides law students with an opportunity to practice being a lawyer. Students are provided with an imaginary case and are designated either the position of police prosecutor or defence lawyer. Then they must prepare for the case, argue the case in front of a judge and against another school and the school that does the best, wins the moot. Mooting is very common in law school and at universities, and there are state, national, and international competitions.
Our Year 11 students participated in the QUT high school competition against approximately 40 other schools last week. We entered two teams of three students, and the teams did exceptionally well in their first-ever legal mooting competition. The teams both finished in the top 50% of schools, with one team making it to finals and coming third overall. On top of that, Ava Shield received the second-highest individual score across the entire competition, which is a great accomplishment.
