Merseyside Schools Public
Speaking Competition 2014
Liverpool Law Society is pleased to announce its fifth Merseyside
Schools Public Speaking Competition is taking place in early
2014. Interest has been extremely high with 13 schools from
across Merseyside taking part.
Pupils, between the ages of 13 and 15, have been battling it out in
regional heats on the topics of ‘A statutory retirement is a
necessary evil’ and ‘Great Britain should become a secular
country’.
The following schools took part in the January and February heats:
Birkenhead School
Christian Fellowship School
Enterprise South Liverpool Academy
Liverpool College
Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School
Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School
Sacred Heart Catholic College
Savio Salesian College
St Edward’s College
St Marys Catholic College
The Belvedere Academy
Tower College
West Kirby Grammar School
The heat at West Kirby Grammar School
The Final of the competition will be held on 10th March 2014 in
the Moot Room at Liverpool John Moores University’s School of
Law with Dr Tony Harvey, Head of Postgraduate Legal Studies at
LJMU and Liverpool Law Society President Glenys Hunt among
the judges. Previous winners of the competition have included
Archbishop Blanch High School, St Edward’s College and most
recently the Christian Fellowship School.
All Society members are welcome to attend the Final of the
competition to see talented young stars of the future go ‘head to
head’ to win the competition. This will be followed by an
informal reception with light refreshments where the winning
school will be presented with a trophy and each of the finalists
will be given a certificate.
To register your attendance for the Final, please e-mail
[email protected] with your details. There
is no charge for attending this event which encourages excellence
in our schools and raises the profile of the profession in a very
positive way. However spaces are limited and will be allocated in
order of receipt.
Our thanks go to Weightmans who are kindly sponsoring this
event.
The heat at The Belvedere Academy