The OUP and BPP National Mooting Competition

Oxford University Press and BPP Law School have teamed up to offer a prestigious national event that is a ‘must enter’ for any student with a passion for mooting. This partnership has enabled this established national mooting competition to enter its second decade with renewed vigour.

In addition to the substantial prize money on offer, the winners of the competition each year will now have the chance to get involved with BPP's exciting pro bono programme, giving them a tour of BPP's Pro Bono Centre and an opportunity to participate in pro bono projects resulting in valuable hands on practical experience.

To see the complete rules for the OUP & BPP National Mooting Competition click here.

Want to be a part of the action?
Enter a team in the 2008-2009 competition!

If you would like to enter a team from your university into the 2008-2009 competition or if you simply want some more information then please email us at mooting.uk@oup.com.

Remember to give us the following information -
university name / team contact name / position (staff or student) / email address / contact telephone number / postal address.

The deadline for entries is Friday 10 October 2008. The competition is open to undergraduates or GDL students only and we can only accept one team per institution. Entries will be acknowledged by email within five working days of receipt. Details of Round 1 will be emailed to all teams by Friday 17 October 2008.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Mooting UK
17 September 2008

The OUP and BPP National Mooting Competition 2007-2008 - The Results

We are delighted to reveal that the University of Cambridge are OUP and BPP National Mooting Competition champions for 2007-2008.

Click here for a full report of the final which took place at BPP Law School, Holborn, on Monday 30 June.

“Mooting is meeting. It is a great social event, and an inter-varsity moot competition especially so. It’s as good as a university ball, isn’t it? - You find your partner, you look forward to it for weeks and when the day comes you get all dressed up and put on a show. Yet a moot is also a valuable element in your legal education. Your course of legal studies will generally require you to work in isolation. You will read alone, you will write alone and you will be assessed alone. In a moot, you work with your partner as a team. You prepare together, you present together and you are judged together. Most modes of working life depend upon the ability to work well in a team, and legal practice certainly does. If you moot well your future employer knows you can work well - not only when writing at your desk, but also when thinking on your feet. Yet for all the temptations of present society and future salary, your ultimate motivation for mooting should be the opportunity to test yourself before a judge - a professor or a practitioner - and to practice the art, not of argument, but of seeing the other side.” - Gary Watt, author (with John Snape) of How to Moot: A Student Guide to Mooting (Oxford University Press).

“Mooting is a valuable extra-curricular activity that brings real benefit to the student. Mooting allows students to grow in confidence, become more familiar with the use of legal sources and improve the coherence of legal arguments. All of these skills are equally useful within the undergraduate law degree and applying the skills you develop in mooting to your studies could help raise your marks. Mooting can also be a fun activity and inter-varsity competitions introduces you to like-minded individuals at other universities.” - Alisdair Gillespie, author of The English Legal System(Oxford University Press).

Essential reading for mooters

Legal Skills by Emily Finch & Stefan Fafinski encompasses all the academic and practical skills vital to a law degree in one manageable volume and includes a section on mooting.

It is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre that contains videos showing good and bad 'real life' moots in action to bring the subject to life for students.
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How to Moot: A Student Guide to Mooting by John Snape and Gary Watt provides answers to 101 questions students new to mooting will ask, and covers the major problems likely to be encountered.

"The novice mooter can become very knowledgeable about this game we call a moot by reading the book from cover to cover. The more experienced mooter (or tutor) can use the book as a valuable reference guide..." The Law Teacher
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For further information email mooting.uk@oup.com.