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Clean sweep for Monash law students
7 October 2009
Monash law students have won every category of the recent Victorian Council of Law Student Societies (VCLSS) Inter-university Championships - the most prestigious law students' competition in Victoria.
Each of Victoria's five law schools sends its best students to participate in the championships, with teams competing in mooting, client interview, negotiation and witness examination.
The competitions simulate various aspects of everyday legal practice, requiring exceptional written and oral advocacy, and often extensive legal research.
Students are judged by senior members of the Victorian legal profession, including judges from the County and Supreme Courts, as well as partners from the competition's sponsor, commercial law firm Blake Dawson.
For mooting winners Alex Fawke and Michael Beaconsfield, this was the second consecutive year of taking out the top prize.
The pair, whose team this year also included Matthew Eglezos, said the championships were a fantastic opportunity to improve their skills in advocacy and legal analysis.
"To appear in front of some of the state's top legal minds has been an invaluable experience, and to win was a great bonus," fourth-year arts/law student Alex said.
Other winners were first year students Vivien Tabe and Matthew Persico, who took out the client interview competition, Sofia Hopper and Hugh Bastiaan who won the negotiation section, and Drossos Stamboulakis who won the witness examination competition.
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