The IPLS Bar Mediation team, pictured above, competed as one of 42 teams from across the globe in early April in the International Law School Mediation Tournament at Strathclyde University.

The team, consisting of Bar trainees Lara Smyth, Sophie Briggs and Jenny Cunningham, was placed second overall. The team was accompanied by Barbara Jemphrey, senior IPLS lecturer.

Meanwhile, an IPLS Solicitor team, consisting of Roisin Devlin and Hannah McGrath who are apprenticed with McQueenie Boyle Solicitors and O’Reilly Stewart Solicitors respectively, were placed second in the Brown-Mosten International Client Counselling Competition at the University of Kent over Easter week.

The team was representing Northern Ireland having been selected by the Law Society in a domestic competition earlier in the year. The team was accompanied by Ruth Craig, senior IPLS lecturer.