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9^th International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot 2008 - Perth

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• Sponsors

 

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News and Winners

9^TH ANNUAL IMLAM COMPETITION – 2008 PERTH

Murdoch University School of Law is proud to have hosted and organised the 9th annual IMLAM competition. The event was a great success, with 17 teams competing, including a team from Texas, USA. The standard of the competition was, as always, extremely high. The students had clearly devoted an enormous amount of effort to their research and preparation, and their advocacy skills were incredible.

Moot Director Kate Lewins	Justice Robert French gives an overview of the Grand Final hearing

University of Notre Dame Australia, and University of Queensland fought their way to the grand final. The grand final was held in the Federal Court of Australia on 1 July 2008 before the Hon Justice Robert French of the Federal Court, David Martin-Clark, a London Arbitrator, and David Thomas, Partner at Minter Ellison (Brisbane) and Adjunct Professor of Murdoch University.

In an extremely close finish, the winning team of the oral rounds was University of Queensland.

The following prizes were presented at the final dinner:

Winner, Oral hearings sponsored by Blake Dawson
University of Queensland

Runner-Up Oral Hearings sponsored by DLA Phillips Fox
University of Notre Dame , Australia

Best Written Memo for the Claimant sponsored by Informa Publishing – equal first
NUJS Calcutta

Best Written Memo for the Claimant sponsored by Informa Publishing – equal first
Auckland University

Best Written Memo for the Respondent sponsored by Informa Publishing
Universitas Indonesia

Best Speaker General Rounds sponsored by Middletons
Vince Holland, Murdoch University

Best Speaker in the Finals- sponsored by Jaya Prakash
Justin Geoghegan, University of Notre Dame , Australia

Highest Ranked Team in the General Rounds sponsored by Minter Ellison
Murdoch University

The Sarah Derrington Achievement Award, sponsored by Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
NUJS Calcutta , India

A Team Achievement award, sponsored by Sarah and Roger Derrington
Padjadjaran University , Indonesia

The following Universities were represented at the competition:

The University of Notre Dame Australia
The University of Queensland
The University of Hong Kong
Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
The University of Auckland
Queensland University of Technology
Murdoch University
Gujarat National Law University, India
La Trobe University
Victoria University
Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
National Law University, Jodhpur
Universitas Indonesia
National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta
Hidayatullah National Law University, India
South Texas College of Law, USA
MARA University of Technology, Malaysia

A competition such as this cannot be run without significant support from the legal profession and the maritime industry. Thanks must go to the grand final panel, all the arbitrators for giving of their time so generously (particularly those who travelled to Perth for the occasion), the Federal Court for providing the grand final venue, the sponsors for providing the prizes to the teams and sponsoring the many visiting arbitrators, and the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission for sponsoring the opening function. The anonymous judges of the memoranda performed a largely thankless task with good grace and a great deal of expertise. We must also thank the student helpers who acted as timekeepers and court officials, and the Moot Court Bench students from Murdoch University who ensured the event ran smoothly. Likewise I would like to thank the Murdoch School of Law team of Dr Vernon Nase (Assistant Moot Director), Miriam Everall and Brigitte Russman.

All of these people were integral to the success of the event.

In 2009, the Competition will be hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane and organised by Murdoch University School of Law.

We all look forward to another excellent competition!

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Sponsors

The moot organisers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the following sponsors of the IMLAM Moot 09'

Moot Prizes Sponsored by

Opening Function Sponsored by

Sponsoring Arbitrators

The following have sponsored the moot by providing arbitrators from their offices both interstate and in Perth:

• Blake DawsonMinter Ellison 
• Holman Fenwick Willan
• MIddletons
• Attorney Generals Department (Cth)

 
The moot organisers also thank the following individuals for travelling interstate to attend as arbitrators:

• GA (Sandy) Thompson SC (Queensland)
• David Martin - Clark (London)
• Ron Salter (Melbourne)

 
The following have sponsored the moot by providing arbitrators from their offices in Perth:

• Cocks MacNish
• Jackson MacDonald
• Malleson Stephen Jacques
• Clayton Utz

  

Organised by

	The organisers thank Informa Law for making available the LLoyd's Maritime Law Newsletter, the premier source of maritime arbitration reports, for teams competing in this competition.
	The organisers thank Maersk Line for their assistance with the moot problem for 2008.