Walsh Family Law Moot & Negotiation Competition Awards

Thank you to all who participated in the Walsh Family Law Moot and Negotiation Competition on Saturday, March 13th.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s event:

2021 WALSH FAMILY LAW MOOT AWARDS

BEST APPELLANT FACTUM
University of Toronto (Raoof Zamanifar and Venessa Sectakof)

BEST RESPONDENT FACTUM
University of Ottawa (Connor Henderson and Taylor Bain)

2ND TOP ORALIST
Hannah Lank (University of Toronto)

PHILIP M. EPSTEIN AWARD FOR TOP ORALIST
Florian Nagy (University of Toronto)

SECOND HIGHEST CUMULATIVE SCORE FOR A TEAM
Kevin Mac Neil
Nikita Mathew
Sophia Cripouris
Samantha D’souza-Sen
Hannah Robins
(University of Windsor)

HIGHEST CUMULATIVE SCORE FOR A TEAM
Florian Nagy
Hannah Lank
Venessa Sectakof
Raoof Zamanifar
(University of Toronto)

2021 WALSH FAMILY LAW NEGOTIATION COMPETITION AWARDS

TOP STUDENTS
1st – Valerie Sedlezky (Osgoode Hall Law School)

2nd – Chelsea Walwyn (University of Ottawa)

3rd – Julianna Galifi (University of Windsor)

TOP TEAMS
1st –  Danielle Talbot & Sabrina Mangiapane (University of Windsor)

2nd – Chelsea Walwyn & Paige Miraglia  (Team 1, University of Ottawa)

3rd –  Omair Jafrani & Mirsa Duka (Team 2, University of Ottawa)

BEST NEGOTIATION PLAN
Keith Davis and Antoinette Monardo (Osgoode Hall Law School)

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It takes a village to raise a virtual moot and negotiation competition!

Many thanks to the judges who gave up their Saturday to preside over the competitions and who were charged with the difficult task of scoring and ranking such a skilled and talented group of law students.  Their encouraging and constructive feedback was much appreciated by the students.

Negotiation Competition Judges
Justice Heather McGee
Justice Lene Madsen
Justice Jennifer Mackinnon
Justice Alex Finlayson
Justice Tracey Nieckarz
Justice Manjusha Pawagi
Justice Kendra Coats
Justice James Diamond
Justice Philip Sutherland
Justice Julie Audet
Elizabeth Hyde
Tami Moscoe
Jennifer Suzor
Michael Kleinman
Malcolm Bennett
Christopher Deeble
Georgette Makhoul
Kelly Jordan

Moot
Justice Marylou Benotto
Justice Suzanne Stevenson
Justice Lise Parent
Justice George Czutrin
Justice George McPherson
Justice Stanley Sherr
Justice Andrea Himel
Justice Marvin Kurz
Justice Sheilagh O’Connell
Elizabeth McCarty
Lorna Yates
Gary Joseph
Georgina Carson
Fareen Jamal
Herschel Fogelman
George Karahotzitis
Sarah Clarke
Jodi Feldman

We are also very grateful to those who agreed to take on the difficult and painstaking task of marking facta.  Again, their time and effort is greatly appreciated, along with the thoughtful comments and suggestions provided to the student competitors.

Factum markers
Alex Carr
Clayton Spencer
Kelly Eckert
Jessica Brown
Eric Sadvari
Ann Stoner
Susan Lang
Adam Black
Sharyn Langdon
Chelsea Hooper
Karen Weiler
Christine Marchetti
Tom Arnold
Richard Niman
Chris Mamo
Robyn Switzer
Adrienne Lee
Amanda Chapman
Lindsay Love-Forester

Thanks are also due to our volunteer timekeepers, who also gave up their Saturday to support the event.  Without their assistance, we would not been able to ensure that students, judges, coaches and observers were in the right zoom breakout rooms at the right time, or that the competitions proceeded within the tightframes established in the rules, or that all of the scores were submitted on time.  In short, without their help, it would not have been possible to run this complex event.

Kaitlyn McCabe
Khala Kamanga
Samantha Tebbutt
Lisa-Marie Pharand
Cindy Holovac Leithead
Kate Deveau
Katrina Scheuring
Ginny Bennett
Crystal Heidari
Shwetha Pai
Simi Osisanya
Olivia Giacobbi
Brenda Kotras
Jennifer Curry
Erika Zhao
Ella Aisaeh
Kathryn Hendrikx
Jason Isenberg
Sydney Lloyd
Matthew Pitts
Michelle Polster
Eric Sadvari
Felicity Sattan

Finally, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to the dedicated members of the various organizing committees, who devoted hours and hours of their personal time between August and March to planning and organizing this event.  They are:

Coordinating Committee
Carolyn Leach, Chair
Michael Zalev, Negotiation Co-Chair
Mary-Anne Popescu, Negotiation Co-Chair
Sina Hariri, Moot Chair
Tanya Road, Sponsorship
Kathy Batycky, Sponsorship
Zachary Liquornik, Sponsorship

Negotiation Competition Sub-Committee
Courtney Wile
Danielle Szandtner

Moot Subcommittee
Golnaz Simaei
Clayton Spencer
Jaclyn Mackenzie
Erica Tait

As always, we are very grateful for the generosity of our sponsors and volunteers. This event would not be possible without your support.