Ucl Law Society

inaugural society summer party that's gonna be lit! - first of many farewells to our departing members - post-exam get-together in the sun - a nice breather for tort law students

It’s the last day of term, and some may say the entire academic year. 🙃 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Here’s a look back at what has arguably been the climax of the academic year for our Society - Election Fever 2k19!!! 🗳🤩🥳😍 Starting with Hustings, and followed by Varsities, the Brexit Seminar and 3 days of in-person campaigning, this unprecedented package of events was an intense experience of leadership renewal for candidates and members alike. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ There’s much to be excited about what the Society will achieve in the next academic year. In the meantime, let’s all study hard as our Society goes on hiatus for Easter, and we shall all meet again for a final farewell after the exams ~ 😌 @ London, United Kingdom

UCL Law Society Election Results 2019
The new committee members for 2019/2020 are as follows:
1. President: Raphael Khoo... 2. Secretary: Hannah Hui 3. Treasurer: Rahul Jayaprabha 4. Careers Secretary: Lim Bing Yi 5. Bar Careers Secretary: Chak Kei Lau 6. Social Secretary: Wajih Jaroudi 7. Senior Moots Officer: Alex Moja 8. Junior Moots Officer: Ellen Steiner 9. Vocational Officer: Nearchos Aniliades 10. Speaker Secretary: Christopher Ho 11. Publications Officer: Hannah Forman 12. Pro Bono Officer: Eloise Wainwright 13. Sports Secretary: Kamryn Rana 14. Marketing and Technology Officer: Vanessa Liakopoulou 15. Final Year Representative: Angalea Varma 16. Second Year Representative: Johnathon Choi Ching Jack 17. Diversity, Inclusion and Overseas Officer: Rushil Puri
The incoming committee will be shadowing the current committee and will officially take over in May 2019, after the exams. The election for Vice President will occur then.
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The Faculty of Laws would like to invite you to another LL.B Student Experience meeting, to hear from you about your experiences on the LL.B.
As you are aware the Faculty holds formal feedback committees and as such you have elected representatives who are invited to the Staff Student Consultative Committee and Faculty Teaching Committee and Karen meets with them regularly too. However they also want to give everyone on the course the opportunity to come to an informal lunc...htime meeting to let us know your views. They would like to hear from you about all of your experiences on the LL.B.
Eventbrite sign up page: https://llb-student-feedback1819.eventbri te.co.uk Password: LLBFeedback2018-19
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On the evening of Tuesday March 5th, Ashurst will be hosting a Brexit seminar at UCL. This is a wonderful opportunity to brush up on your commercial awareness skills and understand the impact of Brexit on law firm clients. This session will provide you with the Ashurst Regulatory team's insights on Brexit and the speakers will discuss the effect of Brexit on clients affected by developments in financial regulation. There will also be a short commercial awareness quiz on Brexit where you can apply knowledge gained from the seminar. We hope to see you all in attendance at this special seminar!

A time for us to come together to renew the leadership of our Society, and have a great time!

*𝗔𝗖𝗘: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲*
For the first time ever, the UCL Law Society has partnered BPP University Law School to offer our members places at 𝗔𝗖𝗘: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ To be held at BPP Holborn, this bespoke event has something to offer both the aspiring solicitors and barristers among members of our Society. ... ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Prospective solicitors will experience a mock assessment centre, featuring typical recruitment activities and speed interviewing with instant feedback tailored to individual performance, whilst aspiring barristers will get an opportunity to focus on pupillage applications and recruitment to the bar. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ All students attending ACE 2019 will receive BPP’s 2018-19 Professional Skills & Commercial Awareness Certificate, that will help to boost their applications. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ There are two dates to choose from, and tickets are expected to sell out quickly. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ 𝟲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵: https://ace-holborn.eventbrite.co.uk ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ 𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵: https://ace-london1.eventbrite.co.uk
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Feeling the Monday blues after the week-long break? 🥶 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Don’t feel that way - here’s a reminder of the good news that we have received over reading week. For the first time in its history, the UCL Law Society has been nominated for not one, but three awards at the LawCareers.Net Best Student Law Society Awards 2019. These awards, as shown in the images, bear testament to the enthusiasm of our members, passion of our Committee and support by our many pillars including... our Faculty, sponsors and organiser of the contest itself, LawCareers.Net! 💯 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Special shout-out to our counterpart UCL Law for All Society Society for its nomination for “Best Society for Non-Law Students”. 😊 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Let’s hope that the awards ceremony on 14 March will go down in history to mark a golden era for two of UCL’s foremost Law-related Societies 🎉 🥳 🤩
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Last evening, four of our members represented the UCL Law Society at the annual Eversheds Sutherland KCL - UCL Varsity Debate. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Through sheer hard work and practice, Matthew Stevens-Keane, Makar Rozhkov, Roman Znava and Sofia Stepanova put up an inspiring display of oratorical flair. Though we did not bring home the cup this year, we are proud of our members for their excellent performance and outstanding efforts! 🏆 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ In other good news from our Society’s ...debating scene, Radu Suciu also reached the semi-final of the LSE Open, and was ranked 20th best speaker out of 73 participants in his category. This is an excellent result, seeing as as LSE Open is regarded the third most keenly contested competition within the country. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ On the international stage at the UD Paris Open - an international competition featuring teams from China, France, Spain, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom - our member Adeline Tsui ranked as 12th best speaker, while our Speaker Secretary Neo Wei Sheng himself ranked 8th best speaker out of 48 participants. 🤩🥳 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Kudos to Neo for keeping up with our thriving debating scene, and to all participating members for your commitment to the cause! 💪🏻😊💯
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Come join the UCL Law Society in the Eversheds Sutherland Junior Negotiation Competition 2019 Final.
Date: 19 Feb 2019, Tuesday Time: 6.30-9pm Venue: 1 Wood Street London EC2V 7WS
... Agenda: 6.30-6.45: Registration/In-processing 6.45-7pm: Negotiations in the real world 7-7.45pm: Negotiation Final 7.45-8pm: Deliberation of results by judges 8-8.15pm: Feedback + Presentation of prizes to winners 8.15-9pm: Networking
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A very happy lunar new year to all our members and followers! 🎆🥳🧧
The UCL Law Society celebrated this occasion in advance by coming together for a meal at London Chinatown’s iconic Wong Kei last Thursday evening. The festive atmosphere lasted well into the night, as our members grooved to classic Spanish tunes over at Salvador & Amanda off Covent Garden. 💃🕺
We’re proud to be a place as diverse as the UCL Law Society! More importantly, it’s precious moments like these that will define our time at UCL Laws as a memorable and enjoyable experience 😌 @ London, United Kingdom

The UCL Law Society had a good run at Inner Temple last weekend. 👍🏻 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ For the first time ever, the UCL Law Society sent teams to the Inner Temple Open (a highly-contested debating competition featuring over 100 participants) as the only participating university law society. We fared exceptionally well as first-timers - while we did not take home the title, our first year member Radu Suciu was ranked as the 6th best speaker in his category. 💯 ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Likewise, our... final year members Neeva Desai and Robert Shu did us proud by emerging as Champions out of 20 teams from across the country competing in the Inner Temple Inter-Varsity Moot. Notably, this the first time in a decade that we have taken home the coveted Bhutan Cup 🏆. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Credit is due to our Speaker Secretary, Neo, and Senior Moots Officer, Niam, for making it possible for our Society to participate in these Competitions. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ To all members who have represented us, and will be representing us at external Competitions, we are proud of you for your efforts no matter the outcome 💪🏻🤩👍🏻😊
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**WIDENING PERSPECTIVES TO A LEGAL CAREER PANEL **
Wednesday 6th February, 6.00pm, Moot Court, Bentham House
I am pleased to announce the second event of our Widening Perspectives to a Legal Career series. This will be the UCL Law Society's second panel event of the academic year which does not focus on corporate practice areas such as Banking and M&A. We are delighted to welcome the following representatives:
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After a hiatus of a couple years, the UCL Law Society will be bringing back the highly-acclaimed Training Contract Applications Workshop by LawCareers.Net on Wednesday, 6 February 2019. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Spend your mid-week afternoon productively by engaging in conversation with Bethany Wren, who will be offering practical tips gleaned from years of experience at LawCareers.Net to help you tackle this common struggle facing all aspiring solicitors. This will be especially valuable for penultimate and final year students seeking to make direct training contract applications this summer, and first year students planning ahead for their training contract journey next year. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Brought to you as part of 𝗨𝗖𝗟 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 '𝟭𝟵.

As always, we're finding reasons to have a great time together! Chinese New Year falls on 5 February '19 this year - what better way to celebrate it then by having some Chinese food and a party after? ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ At 6.00 pm on Thursday, 31 January, we'll be leaving from Bentham House to Wong Kei, an iconic restaurant that has been serving up cheap and good Chinese grub in London's Chinatown for decades now. Expect some tasty Cantonese and Straits Chinese food (i.e. Hong Kong a...nd Singapore cuisine) that won't put a dent on your wallet. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Thereafter, we'll head round the corner to our favourite hangout - Salvador & Amanda - for half-priced jugs of sangria and some banging tunes. No one is getting out of our CNY 2k19 celebration sober! ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ Do let us know that you're joining us for dinner by clicking "go", so that we can reserve a seat for you at the restaurant. If you're joining us after dinner, do click "maybe" instead. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ SEE YOU THERE <3
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Last night (17th January 2019), Adelaide House welcomed eight of UCL Law Society’s most talented mooters to the Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Speed Mooting Semifinals and Finals.
The night started out with an intense Semifinals. After the announcement of the names of the four finalists, they were only given 30 minutes to analyse their given scenarios, apply the authorities and prepare their speeches. Despite the difficulty of the task, the finalists nonetheless demonstrated... what can only be deemed the epitome of advocacy skills.
Congratulations to the champion Ellen Chan! Also, well done to the finalists, Thomas Lam, Juliet Leung and George Ge.
BCLP announced that they were more than impressed with the standard of mooting demonstrated last night, and as a result the graduate recruitment team has decided to award all four finalists work placement schemes.
We would like to thank the enthusiastic participants, supportive spectators and especially our proud sponsors BCLP for hosting this inaugural event with us.
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**LATHAM & WATKINS SPECIAL CAREERS EVENT** **YOU MUST REGISTER FOR A FREE TICKET TO ATTEND THIS EVENT**
Thursday 24th January, Keeton Room, Bentham House, 6.00pm
... We are delighted to host Latham & Watkins for our first event for aspiring solicitors this term!
This is the perfect event to attend if you are thinking of applying to Latham & Watkins' open days, vacation schemes or direct training contracts, or simply want to know more about this commercial US firm! We are very fortunate that Latham & Watkins are sending Associate, Trainee and Graduate Recruitment speakers as they really want to get to know UCL students - so don't miss your chance to get your ticket now!
The schedule of the event will be as follows:
· Welcome and Graduate Recruitment hints and Tips– 30 mins (Delivered by a member of the Graduate Recruitment Team)
· Trainee Q&A – 30 mins (with three of Latham & Watkins' current trainees)
· Associate talk – 30 mins (about their career and practice area)
· Informal networking over food and drinks reception – 45 mins (With all Latham attendees)
Details: Thursday 24th January 6.00pm at Keeton Room, Bentham House
Dress Code: Business Casual. Males: Button shirt, smart trousers, business shoes. Blazer and tie optional. Females: Button shirt/blouse, skirt/smart trouser/dress, business shoes (flat or heeled). Blazer optional. No trainers or jeans please!
**NO-SHOW POLICY** Anyone who does not show up to the event will not have their details passed onto the Sponsors. Any no-shows who have not refunded their tickets by 11.59PM ON WEDNESDAY 23RD JANUARY and who have not messaged me with a valid excuse will be disallowed from attending future careers events. This is so that we have accurate numbers to present to our Sponsors and so that tickets are available for everyone who actually intends on attending.
As usual, please message Faye Ho if you have any questions.
**TICKETS ARE LIMITED SO GET YOURS NOW!**
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