Your time to shine is finally here! I am looking for all those debaters, actors, arguers and public speakers or those who want to learn these skills. Competitions give students in 4th and 5th year a chance to try-out for the ALSA conference and represent Tasmania. In order to get you all ready for these final years, I will be holding competitions for 1st and 2nd years directly after the mid-semester break. Competitions range from Mooting to client interviewing, witness examination, negotiations and paper presentation and International Humanitarian Moot (the last two will not be held for 1st and 2nd years).

Download the word document below for more information and workshop info.

Competitions Information sheet

Hannah Phillips

Competitions

ALSA GENERAL DELEGATES!!  Time is running out to register.  if you are interested please go to:
http://alsaconference.com.au/ticketInfo.php and registration can be completed at http://alsaconference.com.au/register.php.
 
Registration for GDs closes 5 June.  Join the UTAS team for a week of fun…

ALSA Conference 2010 is in Adelaide.  It’s a great chance to meet other students, learn (some) stuff… and… well… PARTY.  This year’s activities include paint-balling, go-karting, Coopers Brewery Tours, Barossa Wine Region Tours…
 
Get amongst it!

The ALSA Conference Adelaide 2010 Gold Package gives you all you need
to share in the fabulous week of socialising, stimulation and fun with
over 500 other law students. The Gold Package provides delegates with
all aspects necessary to have an enjoyable Conference experience with
no hassle or fuss.

The Gold Package – $740

Includes:

7 Nights Accommodation in 4-Star apartments (Oaks Embassy or Horizons)
Registration Bag including conference information, freebies and a
travel coffee mug
Food bags with South Australian produce to keep you going
Free lunch daily at the soup kitchen

Plus entrance to 11 events:

Entrance to the Opening Gala Dinner with Guest Speaker (four hour
drinks package and dinner)
Battle of the Bands (drinks specials all night)
Cocktail Night (4 hour food and drinks package)
Angels and Demons Themed Night (4 hour food and drinks package)
Equity Breakfast with Guest Speaker (full cooked breakfast)
Movie Night for everyone to relax (drinks and nibbles provided)
Four Australian Legal Education Forums with the topics of Animal Law
and Animal Rights, Humanitarian Intervention and Responding to
Conflict, Combating Global Poverty, and Refugee Law; shifting the
focus from criminality to human rights (drinks and nibbles provided at
all)
Closing Gala Dinner (four hour drinks package and dinner)

Silver Package – $450
The Silver Package includes all of the above except accommodation.

More info at www.alsaconference.com.au

What a busy couple of weeks we have had already on the Competitions calendar! The past three weeks have been full of seminars and competition try-outs to select the ALSA team to go to Adelaide in July. Seminars were held by various academic and practitioners such as Simon Nicholson from the DPP, Adrian Hall a Barrister from Launceston and staff member Michael Stokes. To these people, the competitions would not be possible without you. I know the students have learnt a lot from you and appreciate all the time you have given. The competitions were held over the past two weeks with about 50 students competing across the board in Negotiations, Witness Examination, Client Interview, IHL Moot, ALSA Moot and the Paper Presentation.  I will also take this opportunity to thank the judges; Simon Nicholson, Kate Warner, His Excellency- Honourable Peter Underwood, Michael Stokes, Adrian Hall, John Blackwood, Anja Hilkemeijer, Jonas Lipsius and Jane Neilson. I believe we have a great team for ALSA in 2010 and they are:

The Tasmanian Legal Practice Course Witness Examination: Pip Monk

The Law Society of Tasmania Negotiations Team: Aaron Cullen and Bunewat Keo

The Freehills Client Interview Team: Aneita Browning and Mark Roberts

The Mallesons Stephens Jaques ALSA Moot Team: Kate Whelan, Marco Bolonja and Courtney Lockett.

The Butler Mcintyre &Butler IHL Moot Team: Daphne Tan and Emma Davis

Paper Presentation: Meg Good

ALSA 2010 is co-hosted by the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia, and will see over 500 law students converge to attend cocktail party and gala events, most prestigious competitions and educational forums from the 12^th-18^th of July. If any students wish to go to ALSA, you do not need to be a competitor, there are general delegate positions available. This is at your own cost, but if you are interested contact me.

Once again, thank you for all those who have assisted me with the competitions over the last couple of weeks, I really appreciate it. Also to the volunteers, It would not have been possible without you.

Please wish those successful students good luck at ALSA, and await their results in July.

Hannah Phillips (competitions.tuls@gmail.com)