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Joint winners for Times advocacy competition
- 18th September 2010
This year’s The Times Student Advocacy Competition was won by two aspiring lawyers when the judges failed to identify an outright winner for the first time in the competition’s history.
The two joint winners of the competition, sponsored by City firm Herbert Smith, were each awarded £3,000.
The winners were Oxford graduate Robert Amey, and Joseph Lack, a student at University of East Anglia. The advocacy competition focused on the issues of equality laws, conflicting rights and the expectation of fairness under the heading: To what extent do equality laws oppress freedom of conscience and how should the courts reconcile competing rights?
High Court judge Dame Anne Rafferty, who chaired the judging panel that included Shami Chakrabarti, said that although the two winners were arguing from opposite points of view “there was absolutely nothing between their performances”.
The third winner was Laura Collier, who gave birth to her daughter just six weeks previously.
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