22-05-2025
Mooting? Keep calm and carry a cheat sheet
Being able to persuade a judge using clear and concise oral arguments is what being a barrister is all about.
Mooting competitions that simulate court hearings — usually an appeal of a fictional case — enable students to practise and hone their skills of legal research, written submissions and presenting arguments.
Most universities, Bar schools and the four Inns of Court hold moots, and there are several wider competitions. Not least the national competition organised for the past decade by 2 Temple Gardens (2TG) in conjunction with The Times, which is open to all students in tertiary education.
To open the world of mooting to a broader section of students before they go to university, for the past three years the chambers has worked with
