Law student Courtney Furner has resumed her law studies at UWA after an incredible 12 months in Europe.

As an exchange student at the University of Vienna she took part in the 2008 Telders Moot Competition. Courtney and partner were the respondents for the Austrian team and won the Best Memorial Prize, and placed second overall for respondents.

She received the DLA Piper Best Oralist Prize. The case dealt with an aerial accident (which happened over Lake Constance in Germany a few years ago) and the legal issues arising from it.

Courtney then worked in The Hague for three months at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Her role with court management entailed ensuring that the Rules of Procedure and Evidence were complied with in court.

Outside of court she was entrusted with co-ordinating disclosures to firms and legal offices in Bosnia-Herzogovina and Croatia, as well as reforming the court management procedure manual.

While with the Tribunal she accompanied court officers to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to ensure defendents returning from provisional release or witnesses coming to testify, arrived safely and were transferred to the Dutch police.

Courtney has now returned home to resume her law studies at UWA.

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