Toronto—Dentons is pleased to announce that the University of Toronto, with a team comprising Mina Batyreva, Patricia Lahoud, Jesse Waslowski and Elizabeth White, has won top honours at the seventh annual Donald G.H. Bowman National Tax Moot.

Other winners included:

• Best Factum – Appellant: Queen’s University
• Best Factum – Respondent: University of Windsor
• Best Advocate: Jennifer Horton, University of British Columbia

The moot, named after the Honourable Donald G.H. Bowman, former Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada and Counsel to Dentons, was held on March 3 and 4 at the Federal Courts Building in Toronto.

This year marked a number of outstanding milestones for the event. For the first time, all of the finalists arguing the cases were women, reinforcing an impressive shift in the legal industry. As well, this year was the largest moot Dentons has hosted to date, with 65 students from 14 law schools across Canada competing over two days. The students argued the actual case of Kruger Inc. v The Queen, 2016 FCA 186. The judges of the moots included jurists from the Federal Court of Appeal and Tax Court, and lawyers from the Department of Justice and private practice.

For further information, please visit http://www.bowmantaxmoot.com.

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