The Mooting Handbook

A moot happens in a fixed order: you get a problem, you research it, you write a skeleton, you build a bundle, you rehearse, you stand up, you get interrupted, you sit down. Advice that arrives in a different order is harder to use than it needs to be.

What is in it

• Reading the problem, and arguing only the ground you were given
• Skeleton arguments, format rules and the exchange
• Building a bundle that does not go wrong
• Script or notes, and the case for each
• Etiquette, delivery and forms of address
• Judicial intervention, rebuttal and how to end
• Understanding the judge, and what is actually being marked