Nottingham Law School Prize Giving Evening

Nottingham Law School welcomed prize-winning students, their families and friends, and sponsors of the prizes to an awards ceremony in The Old Library.

Nottingham Law School welcomed prize-winning students, their families and friends, and sponsors of the prizes to an awards ceremony in The Old Library. The evening ended with a celebratory reception where drinks and canapés were served.

Over 40 prizes were awarded to successful Law School students, the majority for outstanding academic performance. Other prizes were presented for mooting, pro bono work, advocacy, research and work carried out on placement. Skills in certain areas of law such as business and family law were also recognised with awards.

Two prizes were also awarded to staff members Emma Winfield (for Academic Tutor of the Year) and Amanda Rushby (for Personal Tutor of the Year).

Student Awards 2016/2017

Undergraduate Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Vice Chancellor’s Award
Billy Shaw

Irwin Mitchell Prize for the Best Performing Student in the Medical Law Module
Kayleigh Smith

Trent Law Prize
Billy Shaw

Cartwright King Prize for Best Placement Portfolio
Elisa Angrisani

Freeths Prize for Best Law with Business Student
Sabrina Ahmed

The Richard Sutcliffe Memorial Prize for Mooting
Billy Shaw

Browne Jacobson Prize for Best Performance in a Pro Bono Related Module
Ella McGregor

Paragon Law Prize for Best LLB International Student
Sewa Hamah

KPMG Prize for Top Performing Path to Professional Practice student academic year 2016/17
Ellie Johnson

KPMG Prize for Top Performing Path to Professional Practice student academic year 2016/17
Latoya Stapleton-Jelenke

Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching Research in Undergraduate Studies Award
Rebecca Clarke

Thomson Reuters Law Prize
Alexander Harvey

Thomson Reuters Law Prize
Victoria Chan

Oxford University Press Prize
James Allen

Cartwright King Prize for Best Crime Mooter
Roseanna Child

Samee Mozumder Memorial Prize for Best Performing Student in Public Law and Human Rights
Edward Gould

Oxford University Press Law Trove Prize
Ian Dewey

Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)

Nottingham Law School Prize for Highest GDL FT Mark
Olivia Roberts

Nottingham Law School Prize for Runner-up for the Highest GDL FT Mark
Jessica Marsden

Shoosmiths Prize for Best Research Project
Victoria Cutmore

Shoosmiths Prize for Best Research Project
Hugh Macleod

Nottingham Law School Prize for Highest GDL DL Mark in Year Two
Sandra Wiggins

Nottingham Law School Prize for Runner-up for Highest GDL DL Mark in Year Two
Sam Robinson

Legal Practice Course (LPC)

Nottingham Law School Highest Aggregate Prize on LPC FT
Alexis Vandyke-Mercer

Nottingham Law School Second Highest Aggregate Prize on LPC FT
Louise Astill

Geldards Prize for Best Result in Property on LPC FT
Louise Astill

Geldards Prize for Best Result in Property on LPC FT
Alexis Vandyke-Mercer

Geldards Prize for Best Result in Property on LPC FT
Kin Fung Ho

Geldards Prize for Best Result in Business Law and Practice on LPC FT
Emily Kirk

Nottingham Law School Highest Aggregate Prize on LPC PT
Susan Evans

Nottingham Law School Second Highest Aggregate Prize on LPC PT
Anna Clarkson

Freeths Prize for Best Result in Business Law and Practice on LPC PT
Eleanor Harrison

Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)

Taylor Prize for Best Overall Student
Matthew Chipperfield-Taylor

Taylor Prize for Runner-up Overall Student
Patrick Charles Gartland

Alastair Munt Memorial Advocacy Prize
Matthew Chipperfield-Taylor

St Mary's Family Law First Prize
Sinjin Peter Bulbring

St Mary's Family Law Second Prize
Malvika Jaganmohan

Masters of Law (LLM)

2015/2016

Nottingham Law School Prize for Best LLM Student Overall
Adela Kratenova

Nottingham Law School Prize for Best LLM Dissertation
Abigail Cannon

Nottingham Law School Prize for Best LLM Dissertation
Kazuhisa Deguchi

Nottingham Law School Prize for Best LLM Dissertation
Carsten Kiefer

Nottingham Law School Prize for Outstanding Achievement on the LLM course
Barbie Nash

Association of Partnership Practitioners Prize for best LLM Student in Business Organisations academic year 2015/16
Davy Blessings Jambo

School-wide Prizes

The Richard Bagley Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Pro Bono Activity
Lindsay Mitchell

Nottingham Law School Dean's Award for Outstanding Contribution 2016/2017
Akil Hunte

Notes for editors
- Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is one of the largest UK universities with nearly 28,000 students and more than 3,500 staff across four campuses, contributing £496m to the UK economy every year. It is one of the most environmentally-friendly universities, containing some of the country’s most inspiring and efficient award-winning buildings.
- The University is passionate about creating opportunities and its extensive outreach programme is designed to enable Nottingham Trent to be a vehicle for social mobility. NTU is the sixth biggest recruiter of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the country and 95.6% of the its graduates go on to employment or further education within six months of leaving.
- NTU is home to world-class research, winning The Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2015 - the highest national honour for a UK university. It recognised the University’s pioneering projects to improve weapons and explosives detection in luggage, enable safer production of powdered infant formula and combat food fraud.
- With an international student population of approximately 2,600 from around 100 countries, the University prides itself on its global outlook.