Students and graduates from Leicester De Montfort Law School had a double celebration when they collected awards as well as their degrees.
A prize giving ceremony was held just before the graduations to recognise academic excellence and reward this year’s outstanding students.
Family, friends and staff were invited to share in the celebrations for DMU’s talented students at a special reception in the Hugh Aston building.
Tim Hillier, Acting Head of DMU Law School, said: “These awards recognise some truly exceptional work that you have done throughout your time at DMU, so it is only right that we celebrate your achievements. We wish them all the very best for the future.”
Holly Whatsize, who graduated at the top of her cohort in Law and Criminal Justice, has already started a job working at a local charity, which works to help those affected by parental child abduction. Cases often involve family disputes.
Holly will be on the frontline as the first point of call for families contacting the service. She said: “It’s important to me that I can use what I have learned on my law course and help other people. It will be emotional but I am looking forward to making a difference.”
Charlie Reid got the prize for best score on the lawyering module. The aspiring barrister from Church Gresley, Derbyshire, said: “It was my favourite module, I liked preparing and arguing the cases and it was continuous assessment, so you had a chance to reflect on how to improve.”
During his time at DMU Charlie was the chair of Street Law, DMU’s student pro bono law group which helped raise awareness of law in primary schools – which they did using a case based upon Disney’s Frozen.
Awards were also presented to undergraduates and postgraduates from the Leicester Business School.
Ashley Shepherdson collected an award for making the biggest improvement in his grades for BSc Finance – which ended up with him collecting a First. He said: “It was a bit of a surprise to be honest I wasn’t expecting an award! I’m really pleased.”
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The CFA Society UK prize for best final year finance student: Burinder Bhatti
The CFA Society UK Prize for Endeavour on BSc Finance: Ashley Shepherdson
Best performance in Law by a final year student: Georgina Eaton
Leicestershire Law Society Prize for best second year student: Justina Kavaliauskaite
St Philips Prize for best performance in the final year of LLB Law and Criminal Justice: Holly Whatsize
Thomson Reuters Law prize for best first year: Katie Shaw
Jordans Publishing Ltd family law prize: Shazia Issa
St Philips Prize for best student in the lawyering module: Charlie Reid
Oxford University Press prize for best performance in constitutional and administrative law: Katie Shaw
LexisNexis Butterworths Prize for best performance in law and medicine: Kate Tebbutt
Examiners’ Prize for best overall final year performance in LLB Business Law: Romin Sattar
LexisNexis prize for best employment law student: Eunice Marland
Best LLM Distance Learning Student: Dean Blackburn
Sky Sports Prize for best sports law student: Angua Bujalski
Best Student on Global MBA: Isha Arora
CIH East Midlands prize for highest Masters achievement: Alex Bailey
CIH East Midlands prize for highest postgraduate certificate: Rebecca Asady
Best performance on MSc International Business and Finance: Giorgia Pessina
Best performance on MSc International Business and Management: Thi Lu
Doctoral Thesis prize from the Faculty of Business and Law: Lukman Raimi
Best Joint Hons Accounting or Finance performance: Komalpreet Kaur
Posted on Saturday 23 July 2016