Mooting

I signed up for mooting competition with my friend Mr. Ting. He was my partner in mooting. I played a role as a junior counsel, he on the other hand, as a senior counsel. You know how we came into a conclusion on who will be a senior counsel and who will be junior? I asked him whether he joined debate before. He said he joined before. "Oh well if you joined debate before then you....are a senior counsel.." I replied. So he is a senior counsel and I the junior one.The different between the senior and the junior is as follow

1. Senior Counsel can help Junior counsel if he is in trouble..hahaha (He helped me during the first round)

2. A senior counsel normally holds a higher portion of marks.

3. The Senior counsel normally is the first one who start first.

We received our question paper.. The mooting question was about whether there is doctrine of consideration and doctrine of promissory estoppel in the case. My partner bring out the argument for promissory estoppel and I bring out the argument for consideration. We had sleepless nights in preparation for mooting. I think before one to two days before mooting the junior counsel of our opponent had quit the competition and replaced by another candidate. Our mooting was schedule to be at 2 pm. I and my friend arrived in college early in the morning to practice. We practice, and practice, and practice until we forgotten about lunch. AS the time is ticking nearer to the mooting competition we were getting nervous and hungry..But because there is luck we, in the end managed to get through it to the second round.

Second round of the mooting. the case that we were to discuss, was about provocation and diminished responsibility in relation to the the Homicide Act 1957. My partner set up an argument for provocation and I set up argument for diminished responsibility. Same as the first round we had sleepless nights again. BUT in the end we won the competition.

NOW leh??We are waiting for the date for the third round mooting competition to be out!!

So wish us Good Luck!!Hahahahahahaha.Thanks Mr Ting!!