Balliol College wins the Blackstone Chambers Postgraduate Mooting Championship 2023

The team from Balliol College, consisting of Alyssa Glass (DPhil Law) and Jonathan Tjandra (BCL), have won the Blackstone Chambers Postgraduate Mooting Championship 2023. The Balliol team prevailed in the Grand Final against St Catherine’s College, represented by Holly Leung and Regina Yip. The Grand Final took place at Trinity College on Thursday 23 February 2023, with Tom Lowenthal of Blackstone Chambers presiding.

The Grand Final moot problem concerned issues of constitutional and administrative law before the Supreme Court. Previous rounds had covered a range of topics including criminal law, administrative law, and tort law.

The Postgraduate Mooting Championship is the biggest postgraduate mooting competition in Oxford, where up to 32 teams, each representing their Colleges (or Permanent Private Halls), compete. The 8 top ranked teams in the preliminary rounds (which consisted of two rounds held in Michaelmas Term of 2022-23) advanced to the elimination rounds of the competition in Hilary Term, comprising Quarter-finals, Semi-finals, and a Grand Final.

The competition was made possible by the generous support of Blackstone Chambers