Showing posts with label Medical Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical Ethics. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 January 2009

Mooting Third Round

So I have made it through two rounds so far of my university's internal mooting competition.
Not so great considering other people's achievements, but also not that great as I was in the same position in my first year. The top 16 mooters go through this round to the quarter finals, slightly daunting as I have yet to be up against someone who is really good; people in the first round and second rounds were the light hearted people who thought "lets give it a go" rather than some of the dedicated third years who spend about 3 weeks preparing for a moot. Conversations with other people taking part in the moot also mentioned the lack of "really good people" so I gather this round will be a tough one as most of the weaker competition has been sifted out.

The moot problem I am currently facing falls square into a medical law and ethics topic, which I study and suprisingly the course leader writes the moot problem questions. For some reason I am finding it extremly hard to come up with anything for the negative of the certified question "is a doctor or surgeon under a duty of care to inform the patient of signficant factors relating to that individual doctor or surgeon?"

I have no clue who the other people I am mooting against are, but I do know that I have a judge who is scholary in the field of Tort Law.

If I even manage to complete my skeleton before 12pm on Tuesday I will be wonderfully surprised. That and the third year is demanding a lot from me, with mooting, the LAC, and now I have involved myself in a Pro Bono Unit Human Rights thingy, all so I can boolster my dreadful CV.

In addition I also think I should start charging at least £5 for my Doging Fare Evasion guide, firstly because it makes up the majority of my readership, and secondly because I want money!!