Congratulations to Staffordshire University Law student Jack Bizzell who won their first round tie against Wolverhampton University’s Aaron McKenzie and Hiba Asghar in the UK Law Students’ Association competitive moot competition.

They represented an appellant fighting a deportation order in the Immigration Tribunal. Jack  successfully argued that their client was assisted by his (and his family’s) ‘exceptional circumstances’, ECHR Convention rights, and Public Law ‘proportionality’ requirements. The court clerk was fellow SU student Simon Mitchell. The judge was SU Law School lecturer Keith Puttick, a former Unified Appeals Tribunal judge and a co-author of Civil Appeals. Keith in his feedback said the performances by both teams had been really impressive and he ‘scored’ the SU team as ahead on points given the quality of their legal arguments, use of authority, legislative schemes and pre-hearing research using on-line systems like Lexis Library and Westlaw. SU will now go through to the next round of the national competition.