Verdict, Michaelmas 2019

With Michaelmas now a distant memory, and Hilary well underway, now seems as good a time as any to reflect on the term passed, and to look to the challenges and opportunities lying ahead. Special thanks must go to Sam Warburton in particular for his Law Moderations advice to first-year students in what is undoubtedly a major and often frightening challenge.

The Michaelmas essay competition, generously sponsored by Weil, Gotshal & Manges, has provoked some fantastic responses. Whilst unfortunately only two could be featured, all submissions deserve praise for their insight into a difficult question tying together commercial and contract law, civil liberties and philosophical notions of freedom to sign away rights, amongst others.

I’d also like to thank Anna Boase QC for allowing me to interview her, as well as Vanessa Harvey and Emily Henderson from Milbank LLP for their insights from the perspective of graduate recruitment officer and trainee respectively. It has been a pleasure being able to meet with them all in person, and I hope their words of wisdom may prove useful to aspiring barristers and solicitors.

Finally, I’d like to thank the Michaelmas 2019 executive and general committee, and in particular the president Yee Kwan Law, for organising and pulling off such a jam-packed term full of events, whose blood, sweat and tears I have been a personal witness to.