The competition was held during the New Zealand Law Students Association's latest conference, which was hosted by the Otago Faculty of Law in Dunedin last week.
Two members of the Otago team, Nic Blumsky-Gibbs and Sean Conway, won the client interviewing contest, which was one of several events in the competition.
Gaining second place in the mooting contest were Alice Osman and Louis Chambers. Another team member, Kate Lawson-Bradshaw, was second in the witness examination event.
Two other Otago students, Alice Selby and Joshua Pemberton, also enjoyed success, winning an inaugural second-year mooting contest, also held during the conference.
Another Otago law student, Maia Wikaira, gained first place in the National Maori Mooting Competition, held in Wellington late last week, as part of the annual conference of Te Hunga Roia Maori o Aotearoa, the Maori Law Society.
Not to be outdone, three other Otago law students, Abby Suszko, Devon Latoa and Sarah van Bellekom recently won another mooting competition against a team from the University of the South Pacific, held during a conference in Vanuatu.
Society of Otago University Law Students president Rob Harris said the recent Otago student successes were a "fantastic achievement" which showed the quality of legal education at Otago.
Law faculty staff and Dunedin lawyers had also provided strong support, he said.
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