Winner

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A fiction of defendant participation: single justice procedure offences should be moved to the civil jurisdiction

by Hal McNulty

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Runner-up essay

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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

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Best Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) entry

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‘No nameless horrors’: the case for regulating embryo models under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

by Christina Fleischer

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GDL runner up

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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

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Highly commmended essays

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

by Kelvin Ma

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An ‘opt-out’ class action regime for environmental claims

by Benn Sheridan

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