Law School MSP student, Farhana Hamid Butt, has won a Middle Temple 'Michael Sherrard Access to the Bar' Award.

The purpose of these awards is to encourage able students from underrepresented backgrounds with the potential to be successful barristers to make a more informed choice about a career at the Bar. The award winners gain experience of what a career at the Bar involves via one week’s work experience in a set of barristers’ chambers and one week’s marshalling.

To win one of these awards is a great achievement in a highly competitive process as only 13 awards are available each year. It is very well deserved given Farhana's dedication and hard work.

Find out more about Warwick Law School's MSP programme here.

On 24 February, Farhan Shahid and Pavithra Prakash Nair represented Warwick at the Cambridge Warwick inter varsity moot at Cambridge University.

This moot has taken place annually for the past seven years and is judged by barristers from the prestigious chambers, 20 Essex Street. The moot problem drew on issues in both contract and property law.

This year, we are proud to announce that Warwick emerged victors for the first time in the history of the moot. This moot is one of many inter varsity moots that the Law Society offers and is a wonderful way for students to hone their legal skills and talents.

Warwick Law Society has won two awards at the inaugural LawCareers.net Student Law Society Awards, which were sponsored by DWF. The competition was tough with 32 student law society entrants. The outgoing Executive Committee were pleased to be awarded Best Mooting Activities, sponsored by McMillan Williams Solicitors, and Best Law Society President, sponsored by King & Wood Mallesons. The society was also shortlisted for Best Pro Bono Activities (top three) and Best Law Society Overall (top four).

Following the news that Elle Sheerin is to present her research at the 2015 British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), Elle will be joined by two other Law School undergraduates.

Ibrahim Babiker and Tara Ifill will be presenting their project titled ‘Looking at the Practice: An Analysis of the Impact of Legislative Approaches to the Problem of Payday Lending Schemes’.

Congratulations to all three of our undergraduates, and good luck at the upcoming conference.

A group of Law School undergraduates visited the Warwickshire Justice Centre in the last week of term. They met with Her Honour Judge Sylvia De Bertodano, a Circuit Judge, and had a tour of the police cells.

While sitting in on Court proceedings, the students witnessed the sentencing of a jury member after he admitted to googling the defendant. The story made local and national headlines.

Undergraduates will be visiting the Justice Centre again on 11 May. Any student interested in attending can contact Jane Bryan for further details.

The Warwick European Law Society this week hosted the third annual Warwick German Law Moot, with teams from UCL, Birmingham and Warwick competing.

All teams performed extremely well and did a good job in making their case – in German - with the team from UCL coming first place overall.

Congratulations to all the teams.

Colombe Cahen-Salvador, Joshua Redman, Sara Bedir and Yasmin Hughes Pugh, all Warwick University Law School students, have formed Refugee Rights, a project which aims to raise awareness around Human Rights.

As part of their campaign, the students have produced a video documenting the experiences of real refugees through the eyes of actors, and showing the importance of the Human Rights Act for the most vulnerable.

Fen Greatley, a third year European Law student, has been successful in his application to the British Council’s Generation UK campaign.

Elle Sheerin, a Third Year student, is to present her research from the Law School’s Law and Disorder module at the 2015 British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR). We are delighted that Elle will be representing Warwick Law School at this prestigious event, and are happy to be meeting her registration costs for the event.

Eight Law School students have been successful in their applications for URSS (Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme) bursaries. The bursaries will support the students’ undergraduate research projects over the summer.

Warwick students enjoy success at the annual Cambridge - Warwick Moot Final and the Warwick Grand Final Moot Competition.

Undergraduate students from the Law School exhibited their research at the Undergraduate Research Support Scheme Showcase last week. Twelve Law students took part, with research areas including “The Future of the Human Rights Act”, “Barriers to Medical Negligence in the Maldives” and “Bigamy and Divorce”.