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Month: December 2014

Sample moot questions

10th December 20148th May 2017admin

Here are a couple of moot questions I set for inter-collegiate moots. The first, here, is on tort law and administrative law; the second, here, is on contract law and trusts law (though concerns issues with which family lawyers would also be familiar).

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