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Strong Showings for Osgoode Teams in Gale and Wilson Moots
March 4, 2008
Strong Showings for Osgoode Teams in Gale and Wilson Moots
The Osgoode team of Sherri Beattie, Owen Minns, Katya Permiakova and Anthony Spadaro finished second in the 2008 Gale Cup Moot Court Competition held the first weekend in March at the Ontario Court of Appeal. Spadaro was also awarded the Dickson Medal, named after late Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Dickson, for excellence in oral advocacy. The team was coached by Frank Au ’00 of the Crown Law Office-Criminal and Ngai On Young ’04 of Cooper & Sandler.
Osgoode has made it to the final rounds of the Gale Cup Competition four years in a row – a feat unmatched by any other team – and the Law School won the Gale Cup last year. In addition, Osgoode has produced five Dickson Medal winners in the past six years.
Seventeen teams from across Canada competed in this year’s Gale Cup, which dealt with the case of Queen v. Clayton and Farmer involving arbitrary detention and gun crimes. In the final round, Osgoode lost in a close contest to the University of Ottawa before Justice Louis LeBel of the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Francois Doyon of the Quebec Court of Appeal and Justice Thomas Cromwell of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. The other teams in the final round were from the University of New Brunswick and the University of Moncton.
In other news, Osgoode student Charmian Leong was named Top Oralist in the Wilson Moot, which was held on February 22 and 23 at the Federal Courthouse in Toronto. Eight teams of second and third-year law students from across the country competed in this year’s Wilson Moot, with the University of British Columbia winning the competition and the University of Windsor coming in second.
Although Leong and fellow second-year students Tracy Brown, Cathi Mietkiewicz and Erin Sweeney did not make it to the final round of the Wilson Moot, they represented Osgoode with skill and professionalism and received many positive comments on their well-written facta, advocacy skills and collegial spirit. Their coaches were Matthew Horner in the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General's constitutional law branch and Charlotte Kanya-Forstner in the legal services branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources.