Recent activities

Advocacy Day – September 2025

On the 12^th September, the Advocacy Committee held its first Advocacy Day for the ICCA’s new and continuing students. The main focus of Advocacy Day was to provide ICCA students the opportunity to learn about general mooting and the competitions they can get involved in whilst studying with the ICCA, to take part in a speed mooting competition scored by practising barristers and a former High Court judge, and to gain feedback and advice from a panel of experienced individuals at the Bar.

The day was attended by over 45 ICCA students at Middle Temple and was run by the attending Advocacy Committee members.

The winners of the speed mooting competition of the day, based on Plea in Mitigation and created by the Advocacy Committee, were:

Joint 1st place – Rory Fazan and Dominique Goddard

2nd place – Daniel Smith

Oscar Minto, the Committee’s Captain of Moots at the time, voiced that the event was very well received and valued by the students in attendance, and that it was a great way for new students to meet some of their peers on the course.

The Nuremberg Moot – July 2025

This year, the ICCA’s Advocacy Committee supported 4 ICCA students – Giancarlo Putignano, Chandani Trivedi, Zachariah Brettel, and Ishaan Gangar (pictured) – who took part in the annual Nuremberg Moot.

The Nuremberg Moot is a renowned international mooting competition in which teams from across the globe argue a fictitious case before Judges acting as the International Criminal Court.

The team received guidance from Judge Beti Hohler of the International Criminal Court and progressed to the oral rounds of the competition which took place from the 23-26^th July 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany . The team placed 26^th out of the 104 teams who took part in the competition, putting the ICCA team in the top 25% of performances.

The team have provided the below statement:

“After a rigorous written application round, we were invited to participate in the oral rounds held at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. We, the ICCA team composed of Zachariah Brettell, Ishaan Gangar, Giancarlo Putignano and Chandani Trivedi, pleaded our case before a bench of leading judges and experts in the field of international criminal law. Our experience was one filled with professional and personal growth as we were able to practice our advocacy skills as well as learn from each other. We also had opportunities to meet passionate and like-minded students from around the world and we explored Nuremberg’s historical sites.”.

Faculty of Advocates Moot – March 2025

The Advocacy Committee entered 4 ICCA students into the Faculty of Advocates Moot which took place in Edinburgh on the 31st March 2025. Juliet Smith, Finnian Robbinson, Eva D’Amato and Christopher Wiskin (pictured) competed against 5 other teams from across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England with a medical negligence case, and had the opportunity to individually receive feedback on their cross examination and examination-in-chief performances.

When asked about their experience, our students described the competition as not only a moot, but “a chance to practice and learn advocacy from some of Scotland’s top advocates”.