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More success for Norman Manley Law School
Monday, May 02, 2011
The Norman Manley Law School has won another international legal competition.
Last month the Law School team of Mark Hope, Diane Thompson Clarke and Subrian Myrie won the Louis M Brown/Mosten Client Consultation Competition for 2011.
The Norman Manley team prevailed over 20 other law schools from across the world in keen competition held at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. The team, which was accompanied by main coach Celia Barclay, attorney-at-law, stood up well to pressure, and brought great joy to the institution.
In the first round of the competition, Norman Manley Law School, representing Jamaica, was given perfect scores by judges who also assessed teams from Cambodia (the East-West Management Institute) and Puerto Rico (the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico). After obtaining a perfect score in each match-up, the team entered the semi-finals against nine others. That also resulted in a perfect score for Norman Manley.
In the finals, Norman Manley took on teams from Australia (University of Sydney School of Law) and New Zealand (University of Otago), the defending champions. In the end, the five judges each awarded the Norman Manley team yet another perfect score, so that the school was able to prevail by a significant margin, with Australia in second, and the Kiwis in third.
Professor Stephen Vasciannie, Principal of the Law School expressed joy and pride at the team's triumph.
"Once again we have prevailed as a result of hard work, team coordination and careful strategy. This team owes much to several coaches and students who provided guidance, but the victory belongs in large part to our brilliant and determined students. We are all ecstatic and proud that the Norman Manley Law School has reasserted its place in the international student community," Prof Vasciannie said.
Earlier this year, the Norman Manley Law School won the World Human Rights Moot Court Competition. In other international competitions this year, the team had also taken third place in the Frankfurt Investment Law Competition, and placed in the top four in the Phillip Jessup International Law Competition, taking the award for Best New Team.
 
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5/2/2011
Right Carlos,
Yet it took hrs to report the convict of some guy of Jamaican descent who committed some macabre crimes in the UK.
Lets keep more positive stuff in the news, its one way to get us moving in the right direction
5/2/2011
It took a month for you report this to the Jamaican nation? I guess it's going to take another month for you to give us the full details of Jamaica's performance at the Penn Relays?
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