The Queen’s Law team has brought home four of the five awards at the 2024 Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Law Moot. Congratulations to oralists Ashley Xuzhao, Ravalika Palle, Olivia Graham, and Olivia Chang, student coach Levon Mouradian, student researcher Mo Rahal, and their academic supervisors, Professor Sharry Aiken and refugee lawyer Andrew Brouwer. 

The team won the awards for Top Law School, Top Facta, and Top Oralist Team. Olivia Graham was also named Top Oralist Mooter.

Based on an actual case, this year’s moot problem centred on whether the Charter rights of a long-term permanent resident were triggered in removal proceedings – specifically at the “inadmissibility” stage. Beginning in the last months of 2023, the mooters put many hours into drafting the appellant’s and respondent’s factums and preparing for oralist practice sessions leading up to the preliminary rounds held at the Federal Court in Toronto on March 1. 

Having performed exceptionally well in those preliminary rounds in a tough competition among teams from nine law schools across Canada, Queen’s appellant and respondent teams –Xuzhao/ Palle and Graham/Chang, respectively – advanced to the semi-finals. There, they faced off against each other.

Student members of the team extend their thanks to the individuals who contributed their time and expertise in making the success of this year’s moot team a possibility: Professor Sharry Aiken and Andrew Brouwer for “being such excellent supervisors” and Sheldon Leung, Jason Bagnall, Zahraa Chahrour, Yamen Fadel, Professor Colin Grey, and Professor Hugo Choquette for volunteering their time to be practice judges and for asking “all their tough questions.” 

Learn more about the Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Law Moot.