Clubs & Competitions

This competition gives students the opportunity to present a plea in mitigation on behalf of an historical or fictional character under timed conditions. Previous cases used include Guy Fawkes (conspiracy to cause an explosion), Lady Macbeth (soliciting a murder) and Goldilocks (burglary and criminal damage).

The competition was held on Thursday 07 December 2023, with 12 students taking part. Congratulations to the winner of this year’s competition Vanessa Jessop, who won with her defense of Delilah (Assault occasioning actual bodily harm upon Samson by cutting his hair. Judges 16: 17-20).

This competition is to find the best mooting team from each of the Bar Course providers. Preliminary selection rounds will be held for Lincoln’s Inn students at the BPTC Providers, using a speed-mooting system. The two highest scoring students will go through to represent their Provider in the final rounds, when the teams compete against each other to decide the winning team.

The winners for 2022/23 are Sebastian Dack-Owens and Harry McCourt.

This is an internal debating competition to find the best debating team in the Inn. Team selection will be held at the final Debating Club meeting of the year. Participants must have been selected at this Debating Club Workshop in order to progress to the final. The motion will be announced on the day and the final follow the format of a “British Parliamentary Debate”.

The winners for 2022/23 are Kadira Pethiyagoda and Nimansa Thalduwa.

This is a competition to award the Sir Louis Gluckstein Prize for the best junior advocate at the Inn. It is open to current Bar Course students and those up to one year Call. Competitors are asked to prepare two exercises, a mixture of criminal, civil and family, and will be allocated randomly. The competition will consist of an initial round from which the judges will select up to eight participants to compete in the final.

The winner for 2022/2023 is Dominic Shingler.

The Lincoln’s Inn Student Law Journal is a fantastic opportunity for students to add a publication to their CVs and pupillage applications.

Criteria:

• Those submitting an entry must be a current student member of Lincoln’s Inn.
• Submissions can either be legal essays/articles or legal case-notes.
• The maximum word limit is 3000 words.
• Only one essay entry per student.
• Essays must be submitted in Microsoft Word document format.
• All entries must conform to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA).
• Footnotes are required but bibliographies are not. Footnotes are included in the word count.

Your submission can be on any legal area of interest. All entries will be reviewed by a panel of Benchers and barristers who will select the entries to be included in the journal. After selection, the journal will be published online with hard copies being stored in the Inn’s library. The panel will also select what, in its opinion, is the best entry which will be awarded the Lincoln’s Inn Law Journal Prize and will receive £100. Students who have an essay selected will be required to sign a plagiarism declaration before publication.

Essays written as part of a student’s degree may be submitted for selection providing:

• The student declares that the essay has previously been submitted as part of a previous academic course in their email when they submit it to the Inn.
• The essay is reworked as to make it currently relevant.
• The essay has not been published anywhere.

The winner for 2022/23 is Zain Sheikh. You can read this years Student Law Journal here.