Derby Students Placed Highly In Law Contest
5 March 2013
(L to r) Yasmin Jivraj and Samantha Hand receive their Third Place award.
David Hodgkinson, University of Derby LL.B course Stage One Tutor.
Second-year LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) Honours degree students Samantha Hand and Yasmin Jivraj came Third in the finals of the 2013 Client Interviewing Competition for England and Wales.
The annual contest tests the ability of two-person Law student teams to interview and counsel clients, as they will have to do once in professional practice, by having them advise an actor playing someone with a serious legal problem. The 2013 finals were held at Cardiff University on Saturday March 2.
Samantha, 22, and Yasmin, 20, were placed Third, after teams from Winchester (First) and Cardiff (Second).
David Hodgkinson, LL.B course Stage One Tutor at the University of Derby, said: "The judges commended them on their performance in a gruelling day which saw them interviewing three different 'clients' with criminal law problems; including tattooing minors, domestic violence and serious offences against the person."
