Stephen Breen

Asking the right questions to Canada

University of Brighton law students, Fionnuala Richardson and Chloe Chatton continued to ask the right questions as their outstanding performance gave them victory by an overwhelming clear margin in the National Law Society Client Interviewing Competition in Sheffield on Saturday. The University of Brighton pair had high hopes to continue their winning streak as they…

Jo’s Poster Plight

Jo Wilding’s winning poster. Click to enlarge. University of Brighton Research Fellow Jo Wilding has won the university’s Annual Research Poster Competition with her entry highlighting the plight of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in England. The poster is based on research carried out by Jo and Professor Marie-Benedicte’ Dembour through the university’s Centre for Research on…

Final negotiations

Sarah Jabir and Suzannah Pinkerton have used their knowledge and skills of negotiation to join fellow winning teams from the National Negotiation Competition regional heats last weekend to represent the University of Brighton in the national final. The second year law students competed along with 66 teams from across the country at various regional heats for the…

Point of law gives victory

Left L-R, Chloe Chatton, Jeanette Ashton and Fionnuala Richardson Fionnuala Richardson and Chloe Chatton asked all the right questions as they took victory by a single point in the regional final heats of the Law Society Client Interviewing Competition held at the University of Brighton on Wednesday Feb 10. The University of Brighton pair was pitted…

European learning

University of Brighton Business School MSc Management students recently experienced first-hand international management learning, taking them out of the classroom to visit companies and institutions in Europe. The group led by Barry Lee-Scherer, Principal Lecturer at the Business School, attended a session at the European Parliament and met with an elected member of the parliament,…

University of Brighton team’s winning negotiations

Congratulations to University of Brighton law students Krishna Patel, Jaspreet Gorae, Sarah Jabir and Suzannah Pinkerton who have won the University’s annual Negotiation Competition. The four…

Asking all the right questions; the University of Brighton Client Interviewing Competition 2015

The fourth annual Gerard Maye Legal Client Interviewing Competition was recently held at the University of Brighton. The theme, set by the Law Society was Family Partnerships. Two pairs of ‘solicitors’ Marlon Cameron and Debbie Thomas (postgraduate law students) and Chloe Chatton and Fionnuala Richardson (final year undergraduate law students), advised ‘client’ Alex Swetman…