Hillcrest’s Senior Mooting Team, consisting of Senior Legal Studies students, Boyd Williams-Styles (team barrister), Georgia Cameron-Dow (barrister) and Jacob Thompson-Makras (solicitor), competed with distinction in the prestigious Bond University National Mooting Competition in Term 2 this year. The way in which the students structured their legal arguments and responded to questioning from the bench was truly inspiring!
Although our team did not make it through to the national finals from the field of 76 teams comprising the best Legal students in Australia, Boyd Williams-Styles was adjudged to be in the top 30 of the over 150 high school ‘barristers’ from all over Australia. Boyd’s official recognition as one of our nation’s top 20% of student ‘lawyers’ was reinforced by one of the Bond University Law lecturers who was a judge in Hillcrest’s moot and who commented afterwards that the extremely assured and professional way in which Boyd answered her array of questions made her feel that “… together, we can solve any legal problem!”
Special thanks to last year’s Year 12 Legal Studies prize winner and the Dux of the College, Kate van Bruggen, for her wonderful dedication to coaching the team, honing their skills of legal analysis and advocacy to an excellent standard.
By David Owens, Legal Studies Coordinator
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