The 2024 Moot season held another year of excellent learning opportunities for law students and resulted in several triumphs for the Manitoba moot teams. Awards won included the Spirit of the Laskin Award, the Spirit of Negotiation Award for the French stream of the Canadian National Negotiation Competition (CNNC), and recognition for the fourth-best mooter in the all-French language Bastarache moot.

The Spirit of the Laskin Award seems to follow Manitoba law students home to Robson Hall fairly often, since they have won it no less than four times in the past seven years. The recipient team is chosen by all participating teams and is given to the team best embodying the principles behind the Laskin which include congeniality, camaraderie, hard work, and commitment to bilingualism. Jayden Wlasichuk (3L), Zeynep Fattah (3L), Maia Bacchus (2L), Kirsten Nynych (2L) and researcher Ashley Slagerman (3L) made up the Spirit-winning Laskin team.

Éric Gagnon (3L) and Seth Lozinski (3L), both students in the Access to Justice in French concentration at Robson Hall, won the CNNC (French stream) spirit award while Brent Tichon (2L), also in the A2J French concentration, was recognized as the fourth-best mooter for his oral arguments at the French language Bastarache moot.

Manitoba students competed in a total of 10 national moot competitions in 2024, including:

MacIntyre (Western) Cup Moot (February 9 – 10, Edmonton, AB)
Gale Cup (February 9 – 10, Toronto, ON)
Jessup Moot (February 22 – 24, Ottawa, ON)
Fox Moot (February 23 – 24, Toronto, ON)
National Family Law Negotiation Competition (February 27 – 29, Online)
Laskin Moot (February 29 – March 2, Calgary, AB)
Bowman Tax Moot (March 1 – 2, Toronto, ON)
Canadian National Negotiation Competition (March 1 – 2, Montreal, QC)
Kawaskimhon Indigenous Moot (March 8 – 9, Kamloops, BC)
Bastarache Moot (March 22 – 23, Ottawa, ON)