Graduations were a double celebration for outstanding law students

Graduations were a double celebration for Leicester De Montfort Law School’s outstanding students.
 Not only did they collect their hard-earned degrees but they were invited back to campus to collect extra awards from their lecturers in recognition of their excellent performance during their time at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU).



Professor Gavin Dingwall, Professor of Criminal Justice and Tim Hillier, Associate Head of School, were there to hand out the prizes to the graduates in front of their proud family and friends.

Professor Dingwall told students: “These awards are in recognition of work of outstanding quality – you should all be very proud.”





Practising solicitor Karen Lawson, who had earlier received her Master of Laws in Employment Law and Practice, was awarded two prizes. Karen, who works for Ringrose Law said: “Doing this by distance learning gave me a depth of knowledge which you do not gain in practice. It taught me the context in which current employment law policy is created and I believe adds to my skill set.”

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Not all the prizewinners were graduates. Justina Kavaliauskaite was awarded three prizes – and has just finished the first year of her law degree.

Justina, originally from Lithuania but who moved to Coventry when she was six, said she was thoroughly enjoying her studies so far.

She said: “I was not expecting this! It is a great honour and I am very excited for my second year.”

LEICESTER DE MONTFORT LAW SCHOOL PRIZE WINNERS
Thomas Reuter Prize for Best Overall Performance: Justina Kavaliauskaite
Leicestershire Law Society Prize for best overall performance in second year: Roman Sattar
Examiners Prize for best overall performance in final year: Ross Rooney
Best overall performance on joint law degree programme: Harry Clesham
Oxford University Press prize for best performance on Constitutional and Administrative Law: Jessica Horton, Justina Kavaliauskaite
LexisNexis Butterworths Prize for best performance in law and medicine: Robert Chidley and Emily Llewellyn
Emery Johnson Astills Prize in Criminal Law: Justina Kavaliauskaite
Jordans Publishing Family Law Prize: Terri-Sian Worthington
St Phillips Chambers Prize for the best performance in the final year of the LLB Law and Criminal Justice Programme: Charlotte Corcoran
St Phillips Chambers Prize for the best performance in the module Lawyering: Theory, Skills and Ethics: Joshua Marley

Postgraduate
The LexisNexis prize for best performance on the Employment Law LLM: Karen Lawson
Sky Sports Prize for best sports law and practice student dissertation: Laura Ratcliffe
Leicester De Montfort Law School Prize for Best LLM Student: Joint winners, Karen Lawson and Stuart Galey

TUTORS’ COMMENDATION AWARDS:
Aneesa Ahmed, Victoria Ajitena, Danielle Austin, Alina-Jane Bailey, Courtney Bent, Helen Bonner, Samantha Brightman, Tasneem Broachwalla, Jamilla Bruce, Mary-Beth Chansa-Machile, Nadim Chenia, Holly Clark, Harry Clesham, Oliver Dodwell, Emily Foy, Chrystal Gaisey, Jodie Gerald, Arwa Hassan, Bushrah Ibrahim, Siroop Kaur, Maharukh Khan, Sabha Khan, Laura Knight, Emma Longstaff, Maku Moyosoreoluwa, Joshua Marley, Masango Nyasha, Megan McCarthy, Alethia McDonald, Charlotte McEvoy, Jessica O’Gorman, Shaneeka Powell, Zoe Priest, Ross Rooney, Vinay Sahota, Himesh Sharma, Ioannis Stergiou, Clarissa Stewart, Santino Stifanelli, Samuel Warren and Tony Wilford.