The competition is open to all
students registered on an undergraduate law
degree course within a Higher Education Institution
in a Commonwealth Nations (see below for the full
competition rules). The competition closes on 31
October 2014.
Essay Competition 2014
The title for this year is:
"Can the Commonwealth (Latimer House)
Principles on Three Branches of Government 2003
serve as an effective framework for safeguarding
democracy and the rule of law in Commonwealth
Countries?"
£1000 of cash prizes will be awarded to the
winners of first, second and third places as follows:
1st Prize: £500 2nd Prize: £300 3rd Prize £200.
The winning entry will also be published in the
Newsletter of the Commonwealth Legal Education
and may also be published in the journal of
Commonwealth Law and Legal Education. Further
details are available from: the Essay Co-ordinators:
clea.essaycompetition@gmail.com.
Essay Competition Rules
1. The competition is open to any of the students
on undergraduate degree in law at a Faculty/
School of Law or equivalent institution in a
Commonwealth country.
2. Eligibility shall be determined by the essay
coordinators whose decision shall be final and
conclusive
3. Students of both full-time and part-time degree
programmes are eligible.
4. All entries must address the topic of this year's
competition and not exceed 2,500 words
(excluding footnotes and bibliography).
5. The essay must be an original piece of work
free of any plagiarism. No essay should have been
previously submitted or shortlisted in any previous
essay competition. The essay must not have been
be previously published either in full or part.
6. All entries must be in English and must be
presented formally acknowledging sources with
footnotes and references in one of the accepted
styles such as OSCOLA or Harvard for legal essays
and a bibliography.
7. Entries must be in electronic form as a word
document. Footnotes should be placed at the foot
of the page, not at the end of the text. Please make
sure that the essay can easily be opened as a
Word document and does not have any restrictions
placed on it in terms of access. The text should be
in Ariel 12 font, 1.5 line spacing and the footnotes
in subscript.
8. The entry should have a cover page giving:
i. The Entrant's full name
ii. Postal address and email address
iii. The course of study and the name and address
of the institution
iv. The word count of the essay ( excluding
footnotes and bibliography)
9. The judges will be particularly looking for:
i. Originality of ideas
ii. Feasibility of outcomes
iii. Depth of research and analysis
iv. The use of comparative Commonwealth
materials
v. Logical structure
vi. Literary merit of materials used
vii. Good presentation
10. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry
form and a scanned signed copy of a declaration
by the entrant that the essay represents his/her
own unaided work. It must also be accompanied
by a similar supporting statement by a teacher or
administrator of the law school of which an entrant
is a student, to the effect that he or she satisfies
the criteria for entry. The statement must be
stamped with the institution's stamp.
11. All entries should be sent by email to the
following email address on or before the 31st of
October 2014.
• clea.essaycompetition@gmail.com.
12. Closing date will be posted on CLEA website:
http://www.clea-web.com/ and published in the
CLEA newsletter.
13. The entries will be assessed by a team of
markers and essay co-ordinators whose decision
will be final and no correspondence in this
connection will be entertained.
14. The Association reserves the right to decline to
award any or all prizes in the event of a failure of
entries to reach an appropriate standard.
15. The author of the essay retains the copyright of
the respective work, but CLEA reserves the right to
print, reprint, and distribute all submitted entries at
any time, regardless of whether or not they are
prize-winning entries. The credit will be duly
attributed to the author of the essay.
Processing and Evaluation
1. On receipt of the entries, The Coordinator will
record and acknowledge their receipt.
2. The Coordinator will then send the entries for
checking for plagiarism by a member of the panel
appointed by the CLEA Management Committee
(MC), who will check using an application such as
'Turn it In'. Entries with a high incidence of
similarities will be eliminated and a report may be
sent to student's institution.
3. The entries will then be sent by the Coordinator
to all the panel members marking. They will mark
them applying the criteria given in Rule 9.
4. Following the completion of marking final three
best essays will be considered winners in order to
merit.
5. The Coordinator will then present the marks and
the scripts to the MC for confirmation and award of
prizes.
6. Once approved, the competitors will be informed
of the results and the MC will take action to award
the prizes to the winners and publish the winning
entries.
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