​A wonderful competition in Canterbury

The 2017 International Competition was held in Canterbury, England and hosted by the University of Kent on their lovely campus above the city. Despite serious difficulties obtaining visas (resulting in a merged team!), students and faculty from 21 countries made friends and shared their cultures over four days (Australia, Canada, England/Wales, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the USA).

The topic was Residential Neighbours.  The final round saw teams from the three Celtic nations -- Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland -- interviewing a client in a dispute with their downstairs neighbor.  She was running a business in her flat (probably illegally) and there were parking and noise problems, along with a suspicion that the neighbour was racially motivated in making compliants.  A final judging panel including Forrest S. Mosten and Joe Egan, Vice President of the Law Society of England & Wales, adjudged Neil Nolan and Conor Cawley from the Law Society of Ireland winners ahead of Hannah McGrath and Roisin Higgins from Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Belfast and Jennifer Baird and Euan Thompson from Aberdeen University, Scotland.

Winners Neil Nolan and Conor Cawley with coach Jane Moffatt