Client Interview
Building positive working relationships with clients is an essential legal skill. Competitors conduct a 30-minute interview with a hypothetical client that addresses a unique legal issue. They are required to extract all relevant facts through carefully posed questions, raise ethical dilemmas, and provide preliminary legal and non-legal advice.
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Negotiations
Negotiation provides students with an opportunity to master important alternative dispute-resolution skills. Teams are provided with hypothetical common and secret facts which they must utilise to come to a mutually beneficial outcome which balances their client’s objectives with the other parties interests.
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Witness Examination
Witness Examination is an individual competition where students develop their advocacy skills by examining and cross-examining witnesses. Competitors work to construct a convincing case while simultaneously discrediting their opposing counsel’s case, whilst exercising their knowledge of both criminal and evidence law.
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Written Skills
The Competition Portfolio runs two written skills competitions, including Affidavit Drafting and Paper Presentation. These written skills competitions are an invaluable opportunity to develop your legal writing skills and receive feedback from a UTS Academic.
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Intervarsity Skills
The UTS LSS hosts and participates in numerous intervarsity skills competitions. These competitions provide opportunities for experienced competitors to represent the LSS at a local, state or national level in numerous competitions including the Nicholas Cowdery AO KC Criminal Law Moot, th Bilateral Contract Moot, the National Womens Moot, Intervarsity Negotiations, the Margaret Cunneen SC Witness Examination Competitions, and the Legal Technology Moot.
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