THE GRAHAM TURNBULL ESSAY COMPETITION

WIN £500!

The Trainee Solicitors Group (TSG) and the Young Solicitors Group (YSG), in association with the International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society is running the annual human rights essay competition for law students and young lawyers in or from England and Wales.

To enter, please submit an essay that answers the question
  
Why must human rights be protected by the rule of law?

The competition is open to all law students, members of the TSG and YSG and barristers of less than seven years’ call at the closing date in or from England and Wales. Entries, a maximum of 2,000 words in length (including footnotes) should reach the address below by 6pm on Friday 2 February 2007 together with proof of eligibility.  (Please see website for eligibility and guidance details).

The author of the winning essay will be awarded a prize of £500, funded from the Graham Turnbull Memorial Fund. The runner-up will be awarded book tokens to the value of £250, kindly donated by LexisNexis Butterworths. Please note that both essays may be published by the TSG as part of the report of the 2006/2007 competition.

Please send your entry for the attention of:

Francine Naidoo, c/o Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, 8 Clifford Street, London
W1S 2LQ or grahamturnball@tsg.org

www.tsg.org/grahamturnball

                                            Graham Turnbull Guidelines

This is a brief guide to the style adopted by the Law Society for publication purposes and should be followed by all contributors.

Cover page with full name, contact address, email and daytime telephone contact number together with entry status.  Cover page to state number of pages.  No page numbering or entrant’s name to appear in essay text.

Please use A4 paper size and submit a 1.5 line-spaced copy of your contribution.

Font: please use Arial 11 for the text and Arial 10 for the footnotes.

Spelling: please use English spelling rather than American variants. Also ‘s’ rather than ‘z’ in words such as recognise. Please be consistent. However, do not change alternative spellings in quoted material and book and article titles.

Footnote numbers should be placed after the full stop, not before it.

Footnotes should be placed at the foot of the page, not at the end of the text.

The house style is to spell out numbers only under 10 in the text.

Foreign words or short phrases that are not commonly used in English should be italicised.

Spell out words such as figure and per cent in the text; abbreviations are acceptable in footnotes so long as you are consistent.

Please make sure that your final copy can easily be opened as a Word document for editing purposes and does not have any restrictions placed on it in terms of access.