Advocacy Competitions

Client Counselling Competition

 

This is a voluntary competition, open to students in all years. The purpose of the competition is to develop students' skills in interviewing and counselling clients. Practising lawyers assess the competitors and other students play the role of clients. The competition is held within the Faculty of Law, and is sponsored by the Toronto firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. The winners of the intramural competition compete in the regional final, and possibly the national and international competitions. In the 1996-1997 academic year, two Western students represented the school in the North American competition and the World competition which was held in Bristol, England. In 2001-2002, our team again made it all the way to the world competition which was held in St. Petersburg, Florida.