The student team supervised by JMKS was able to achieve an outstanding performance at the oral appeal hearing before the “Supreme Moot Court” on January 16, 2013, winning the well-deserved victory among all Viennese teams. We congratulate them warmly.

The team, consisting of colleagues Ljubica Mrvosevic and Christina Buchleitner as well as colleague Stefan Winzely, was able to prevail against 9 other teams from the Juridikum and the University of Economics (business law major) in this year’s Vienna Moot Court Civil Law competition. Our team “represented” the plaintiff Verein für Konsumenteninformation (Association for Consumer Information) in a current appeal case on banking terms and conditions currently pending before the Supreme Court. Their task was to rebut the opposing team’s appeal, which was expressly permitted by the Court of Appeal, the Higher Regional Court of Graz, in a response to the appeal and to defend their legal opinion before the high-caliber senate in an oral appeal hearing.

Fortunately, the Supreme Moot Court, consisting of Senate President of the Supreme Court Hofrat Dr. Baumann, University Professor RA Dr. Hügl and University Professor Dr. Iro, not only followed the request to reject the appeal of the defendant representatives, but also selected the dedicated students as the winners of this year’s Vienna competition. The team supervised by JMKS now has the honor and task of competing against the respective winners of all other Austrian law faculties in the national finals of the Moot Court Civil Law in order to determine this year’s national winner. JMKS will of course continue to support the team from the Juridikum Wien during the national finals.

After two second places in the last two years, this year’s victory of the team supervised by JMKS is a gratifying confirmation not only of the commitment of our law firm in the context of the event perfectly organized by the university professors Martin Spitzer and Stefan Perner, but once again shows the high level of training at the Juridikum Wien. From a lawyer’s point of view, the networking of teaching with practice can only be welcomed. The participating students – all of whom performed exceptionally well, regardless of their placement results – gain an intensive and legally demanding insight into practice during their “theoretical” training at the Moot Court Civil Law. The high level is not only reflected in the high-caliber composition of the judging senate, but also in the fact that all 5 cases heard are currently pending before the Supreme Court. The intensity, in turn, results from the fact that the participating students are also expected to attend an oral hearing before the Supreme Moot Court. In practice, however, oral hearings in civil law cases before the Supreme Court are very, very rare.

JMKS congratulates our colleagues Mrvosevic and Buchleitner as well as Mr. Winzely on their victory and we are already looking forward to the national finals of the Moot Court Civil Law in the middle of the year.

JMKS Attorneys at Law