For the first time since its inception in 2005, the Osgoode Cup Undergraduate Mooting Competition was entirely student-run this year. Presented by the Osgoode Mooting Society and the Osgoode Debate Society, this year’s competition saw 52 teams of undergraduate students from 15 schools in five provinces compete on March 12 and 13. That’s double the number of teams that competed in the 2010 Osgoode Cup.
Megan Bridges and Omar Madhany of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business ultimately won the Cup. The case mooted this year was R. v. Cornell, an appeal concerning the reasonableness of hard or dynamic entries by police when executing search warrants, under s. 8 of the Charter.
via Standing “O” for Dean’s Scribes | Osgoode.
Mooting is the oral presentation of a legal issue or problem against an opposing counsel and before a judge. It is perhaps the closest experience that a student can have whilst at university to appearing in court. –reference.
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