The Ninth UK Mediation Skills Competition for UK Law Students
London 19th to 21st January 2024 at IDRC
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES FRIDAY 8th DECEMBER 2023
The Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (WCA) is pleased to invite entries for the ninth UK Mediation Skills Competition for law students and trainees and pupils at UK Universities, Law Colleges, Law Schools, Law Firms, Inns of Court and Barristers’ Chambers
Team Members who take part should gain:
- Enhanced written and oral presentational and advocacy skills
- A chance to practise negotiating skills and to explore different approaches in mediation
- An opportunity to exercise their problem-solving skills in mock commercial mediations moderated by professional mediators
- An insight into best practice in commercial mediation
- A unique addition to their CV
Each team should consist of up to four eligible law students, trainees or pupils in chambers and a team coach. All law students and trainees and pupils are made welcome; experience has shown that the competition is of particular value and appeal to students of the LPC, the BPTC, the Diploma in Legal Practice and LLMs which include ADR and mediation within their syllabus. The students in each team adopt the role of counsel and client and seek to resolve a commercial dispute working with each other, their counterparty and an experienced mediator. Their performance is evaluated by some of the country’s leading dispute resolution specialists, who participate in the Competition as judges.
Team Contacts and Coaches
Each team must register a Team Contact. The Team Contact may also be the Team Coach but this is not essential and the coach may be a different member of the teaching staff, a student or an external person.
Please note that the competition is not open to individual students.
How to Enter
The Rules of the Competition are available here. Intending entrants should study the Rules carefully and be aware of the contents, including the eligibility criteria for team members. A registration fee of £200 is payable and, to apply, please complete the Entry Form and send a scanned copy by email to both clerk@arbitratorscompany.org and grahamfchase@btinternet.com
We appreciate that teams may require time to select their members and so the names of the team coach and the team members do not need to be included in the entry application.
If you have any questions, then please contact Graham Chase: grahamfchase@btinternet.com
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