Trent-Swansea Law Student Success

Trent-Swansea Student Success

Student Success

The Trent-Swansea Dual Degree Programme has proved to be an excellent pathway for Canadian law students to thrive while studying at Swansea University.

Not only are Canadian students a vital part of our community, with a dedicated Canadian Law Society, they also take part in many initiatives and activities, and have acheived many accolades in doing so - for the past two years, the highest overall performing law student has come from the partnership!

In addition to this, there are several recent good news stories, which you can read more detail on below.

Trent-Swansea Law Student Recent Competition Successes

Swansea’s School of Law puts a strong focus on experiential learning – the process of ‘learning through doing’.

Our students compete on behalf of the Law School and the University in skills of trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, client interviewing, negotiation, and mediation. Many of our law students studying on the dual degree programme achieve excellent results, with several recent successes involving Canadian law students detailed below:

Mooting

Bradley Selleck and Adshayan Kuruncikumaran (both 3^rd years) finished off their run in the Michael Corkery QC Moot. Despite getting strong feedback from the judge, they were unfortunately not in the top 2 scoring teams to progress to the Final.
In the Southampton National Moot, Rohan Ganeriwal (2^nd year) and Raquel Grobe (3^rd year) flew the flag for Swansea. They fought very well but were not able to progress to the Final 4. Particular shout out to Raquel who stepped on 36 hours’ notice, and did an incredible.

In the English Speakers Union Moot, Anna Lasenko (3^rd year) and Nick Mitchell (2^nd year) beat the University of Exeter in round 1 and the University of Aberystwyth in round 2 to progress to the 3^rd round - reaching the last 16 is a best for Swansea and they could still go even further.

Mediation

The Swansea team of Chloe Gear, Chidinma Nwalupue and Norma Omiller (all final years) travelled to Edinburgh for the UK Mediation Competition. They finished 3^rd overall representing Swansea’s best result in the competition.

Client Interviewing

Alexandra Stewart and Sara Wideman (both 3^rd years) won the National Client Interviewing Competition Online Regional! They go on to the National Competition with the potential to represent Wales in the Internationals still on the table.
In the Mediate Guru Client Interviewing Competition, we sent 4 teams, with Abigail Edwards (1^st year) and Colm Yethon (1^st year) reaching the semi-finals and quarter-finals respectively.

Lexie Stewart and Sara Wideman (both 3^rd years) became the first Swansea team to win the England and Wales National Client Interviewing Competition! They performed brilliantly across three incredibly challenging rounds and won by a clear 20 points. Lexie and Sara go on to represent Wales in the International Competition in Poland.

Negotiations

We sent two teams to the CEDR National Negotiation Competition. Anna Lasenko (3^rd year) and Amelia Triaca (2^nd year) were unfortunately unable to progress, but Emma Layton and Hadley Middleton (both 3^rd years) progressed to the National Competition next month - the third year in a row we have had a team progress to the Nationals!

Finally, Chloe Gear and Emily McGillivray-Crawford (both final years) won the York Inter-Varsity Negotiation Competition in our first year entering! They recorded a perfect 5-0 winning streak.

Graduate Sucess

Morgan has secured a role working with victims of domestic violence, allowing her to put the skills and knowledge learned at Swansea directly into practice.

Excellent Graduation Results

first full cohort of the Trent-Swansea Dual Degree Programme graduated from the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, with five out of sixteen students graduating with First Class Honours.

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