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20 April 2006
Stiff Competition at Universities National Negotiating Competition
Litigation partner, Graham Neyt, took on the role of judge in this year’s final of the Universities National Negotiating Competition on 25 March at Staffordshire University Law School.
12 teams made it through to the finals following an internal competition at their own university and the regional competition which had been held in London.
The Day was split up into three sets of negotiating for the teams of two. The morning session involved a multi party negotiation with 4 teams negotiating against each other.
After lunch, the teams participated in a more traditional negotiation, with one team set against another.
With a complex scoring matrix, the judges were looking for: negotiating planning, flexibility in deviating from plans or adapting strategy, teamwork, relationship between negotiating teams, outcome of negotiation, ethics and self analysis.
The winning team was The University of Buckinghamshire.
Graham Neyt commented, "I was impressed with the professional and confident way the teams conducted themselves, I had to remind myself the competitors were students".
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