St Mary's Hosts Law Summer School

The LLB Law Programme at St Mary’s University, Twickenham hosted a special Law summer school on 23^rd and 24^th June for year 12 pupils. The two-day event aimed at giving pupils the chance to find out more about law and get taste of university life. On the first day, pupils were taken on a campus tour with St Mary’s Student Ambassadors, before an Introduction to Law and Politics and Law lecture, which explained the basic principals of a ‘criminal offence’ in legal terms. Day two began with a role-playing session in which the pupils enacted a mock trial. Each pupil assumed a role from the courtroom, including a judge, prosecution, defence, clerk, and jury, to decide whether the defendant was guilty. The Law summer school concluded with a special interactive Sports Law workshop, which explored all of the legal complications that a visit to a Premier League football match can entail.