Legal Studies Excursion
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VCE Legal Studies Excursions
2017 La Trobe University Secondary Schools Moot Competition.
A moot court is when participants take part in simulated court proceedings, which involves drafting submissions and participating in oral argument.
In most moot competitions, each side is represented by two speakers, though the entire team composition is usually larger, with a third and fourth member, of the counsel, may be seated with the speakers. Each speaker usually speaks between 10 and 20 minutes, covering two to three issues.
The La Trobe University Secondary School Moot Competition, first launched in 2011, is held annually for Year 11 legal studies students from secondary schools across Melbourne and regional Victoria. Participating students develop legal, research and advocacy skills, competing in a court setting. It is an enriching opportunity to gain an insight into university life and to develop an interest in pursuing a career in the law.
The competition took place in Term 3 and consisted of four stages:
This year our students, year 11 Legal Studies Students Khadija Jama, Zeynep Inal, Hajer Albreihi, and Nadine Alshammary participated in the first round of the Moot Competition on Monday 28th August at La Trobe University. The competition was tough this year and despite a fantastic effort from the students and much positive feedback from the judges we did not make it to the next round. Regardless, our students should be proud of their hard work and solid performances.
The Victorian Students’ Parliamentary Program aims to provide opportunities that support the civic learning and active participation in democratic processes of all Victorian students through local, state and national parliamentary programs and in school activities, and to support the professional learning of civics and citizenship education.
Local Constitutional Conventions provide Years 9 – 12 students with the opportunity to discuss contemporary social and legal issues, and especially those relating to the Australian Constitution. The local schools convention we attended was be held on, 28th July 2017 at Lalor Secondary College. Sirius College was represented by 15 Legal Studies Students.
Around 100 students who attended one of the local school conventions or similar Civics and Citizenship activities across Victoria were eligible to apply to attend the Secondary Schools’ Parliamentary Convention which was held at Parliament House, Melbourne on Tuesday 12 September 2017. The topic was ‘Should Australia abolish compulsory voting and should the voting age be lowered to 16?’ Three Sirius College students were selected to participated at this level, Nadine Alshammary, Hala Hamdy and Ceylan Ramadan. They now have the opportunity to apply for the National Convention in Canberra next year in March.
