Ian Hutton Memorial Moot 2025
On Wednesday 22nd January 2025, Nottingham Law School held the fourteenth annual Ian Hutton Memorial Moot.
Published on 3 February 2025
Ian, who sadly died prematurely at the age of 47 in 2010, had worked hard to rise above difficult personal circumstances as a child and teenager, initially as a professional actor. He then decided to change career and joined Nottingham Law School as an LLB student, achieving the most outstanding first class degree that had ever been awarded. He went on to obtain a PhD, and then take the bar course. He became a member of the consultant faculty of the Law School and ultimately won a pupillage and then a tenancy at the prestigious Monckton Chambers in London.
As a student Ian had been a keen mooter, and he always took an interest in the development of young people. An annual mooting competition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students takes place in his memory.
The event itself was held in one of Nottingham Law School's courtrooms in the Chaucer Building, using a public law matter which required competitors to grapple with the appropriate behaviour of local councillors in a planning application. Andrew Macnab from Monckton Chambers judged the moot. Harry Craw from the Mooters’ Guild ably clerked and kept time and Harry Toy, Charlotte Paxford and James Spencer carried out the organisation. Staff from Nottingham Law School also worked with the Mooters’ Guild to ensure the smooth running of the event.
Tom Duggan and Shaiq Shabbir represented the appellant, and Charlotte Gallagher and Taniya Khadri represented the respondent. The audience, made up of NLS students, staff and friends, watched Tom take the prize for best overall mooter, and the appellants for the moot.
The judge commended all of the mooters for their performance. All had worked enormously hard on their research, skeleton arguments and oral submissions, on a highly technical area of law that is outside the curriculum.
We are grateful for the generous support received from event sponsor Monckton Chambers.