Winner

A fiction of defendant participation: single justice procedure offences should be moved to the civil jurisdiction
by Hal McNulty
Runner-up essay

Restoring the coherence of the law of mental capacity in the context of medical decision-making for children, by reference to An NHS Trust v C NHS Trust & Ors
by Priyansh Shah
Best Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) entry

‘No nameless horrors’: the case for regulating embryo models under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
by Christina Fleischer
GDL runner up

From quill to computer code: a case to repeal the copyright protection currently afforded to AI-generated literature by the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
by Hannah Phillips
Highly commmended essays

Drunk on freedom? The case for introducing statutory limitations on alcohol sponsorship and health warning labels
by Kelvin Ma
