What is mooting?

A moot is a mock court case, where points of law are debated. There are four mooters, split into two teams, usually to become the appellants and the defendants. Each mooter researches a point of law and then presents this before a judge, with the other mooters, in the moot as an argument.

If taken seriously, mooting provides you with a forum to enhance your public speaking skills, which will prove invaluable in interviews, presentations and ultimately court. But it will also lead to better research skills and you ability to construct a legal argument will have improved. There is also the added bonus that you will know a key topic inside out because through mooting on it you will have picked that area of law to pieces. This will then prove handy when it comes to revision and even seminar preparation!!

It does require copious amounts of guts and effort, as you will feel nervous and stressed before the moot!! But the feeling of relief and achievement you get after doing a moot makes all the struggles worthwhile. It is the challenge that makes mooting enjoyable!!

This year I will be carrying out “Moot camp”…trust me it will not be as cheesy as it sounds!! This will introduce you budding mooters into what is entailed and as with all good Law Society events will be followed by an exciting social. You will then get an opportunity to put what you have learnt into practice with our internal mooting competitions. Then for those enthusiastic mooters there will be an opportunity to represent the University of Leeds in external mooting competitions.

You really do have to try mooting as it is fun and definitely worthwhile!! You have nothing to lose…well perhaps a few hairs!

Key Information for mooting

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Laura Tennet

Mooting Secretary

Leeds Law Society