Gareth Tilley, an Australian student reading for the BCL at Exeter in 2005/06, together with James Chegwidden of Magdalen College, have won the Shearman & Sterling University of Oxford Mooting Competition, undefeated.

46 teams entered the competition, and the top 12 were selected to contest the oral rounds last Saturday at St Catherine's College. Gareth and James defeated a team from Brasenose in the grand final, judged by Mr Justice Walker of the High Court of England and Wales. In addition to prize money of 500 pounds, they will both take up seasonal clerkships in the London office of law firm Shearman & Sterling.