One down, One to go, and then some...

At midnight on December 5th the Vis Moot team of 2008-9 breathed a sigh of relief as our Claimant memo was sent off to Vienna.

We celebrated that first milestone with a quiet drink at the Malthouse on Courtenay place. For the next couple of weeks it was back to regular life, except for Katherine who jetted off to Europe for the first time.

We are all now back, and rearing to go in writing the Respondent memo. The Claimant memo that we are responding to is from Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Mexicans have provided us with some interesting and intelligent arguments, and the next week or so will be spent fine tuning our equally interesting and intelligent responses.

After the Respondent memo is sent off, at midnight next Thursday, we are launching head first into a gruelling practice moot program. We will be completing 3 practice moots per week; mooting in our lunch hours on Mondays and Fridays, and on Wednesday evenings. If you would like to judge any one of these practice moots do let us know!

And so it begins

Welcome to the blog of the VUW Vis Moot Team 2009. Preparations are well underway for the 2009 competition. The problem (released over a month ago) involves cars, multiple parties, and insolvency; it looks to be an exciting challenge for us.

Our Sponsorship Proposal is coming together, and we aim to have that out circulating among potential sponsors within the next couple of weeks. If you, the reader of this blog, decide to sponsor our Team, your name will appear in the list of Supporters on the right side of this blog (and we promise to name drop as well).

We will update this blog regularly with our progress. We will try not to bore you with details of the late nights in our office writing the memoranda, but we can assure you that we will divulge all the details of our exciting mooting adventures abroad!

Til next time!