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November 27, 2023 — 

The yearly Solomon Greenberg Moot took area on Grey Cup Sunday, November 19, 2023 at the Winnipeg Law Courts. Taking part students were being 3rd-year legislation students Melinda Moch, Noah Scatliff, Genevieve Smith, Dominique Gibson, Thomas Mooney, and Tyson Priebe. The judges mentioned the members did an extraordinary position and that they did not have an straightforward process choosing on the winners.

Determine they did, nonetheless, and Tyson Priebe was declared the winner with runner-up Noah Scatliff. The two will symbolize Robson Hall in the Western Canada Demo Moot (aka the MacIntyre Cup), which will be hosted early in 2024 by the University of Alberta. Finalists from that levels of competition will carry on to the national trial moot, the Sopinka Cup, generally held in Ottawa.

Robson Hall’s in-household demo moot has a very long and illustrious heritage at the College of Manitoba’s School of Legislation, reaching back again almost 60 many years, with winners which includes students who have absent on to become Court of Queen’s Bench Judges, Ministers of Justice and even previous Dean of Law, and Chancellor of the College of Manitoba – in the case in point of Harvey Sector, C.M., O.M. [BComm/1967, LLB/1992, LLD/2022].

The Solomon Greenberg Moot was named for a nicely-revered Winnipeg attorney who was thought of one particular of the finest felony defence attorneys in Western Canada. Greenberg was born in Odessa, Russia in 1894, immigrated with his loved ones to Canada in 1911, and registered at the Manitoba Law college immediately after graduating from St. John’s High School in 1915. Greenberg was imagined of as famous in the authorized community, and was a hero to his clientele who ended up mostly of modest signifies. He died of a coronary heart assault in 1958 although managing a demo, and in 1964, his widow created a donation to the School of Legislation to offer a prize for the student judged to be the greatest presenter in the once-a-year Solomon Greenberg Moot Court docket Level of competition. The Manitoba Bar Association later on contributed much more money to also help a prize for the competition’s initially-runner up. Much more information about Greenberg’s life can be observed in Norm Larsen’s reserve Noteworthy Persons from Manitoba’s Lawful Heritage at web page 133.

Director of Clinics, Elizabeth McCandless said, “We are very grateful to our volunteers – we could not operate the demo without Choose Tim Killeen, Judge Raymond Wyant, Decide Kusham Sharma, and Judge David Ireland. The learners were supported by law firm coaches who devoted their time top up to the trial: Adam Gingera and Dayna Queau-Guzzi for the Crown Evan Roitenberg and Laura Robinson for the Defence.”

Study a lot more about earlier winners of the Solomon Greenberg Moot.

Tale submitted by School of Law.