 Ladies and gentlemen, it's my very great pleasure as Dean of the Auckland Law School to welcome you to the 2017 Law Student Awards. This evening, we'll celebrate our best and our brightest, our students who have excelled over the past 12 months. We'll recognise our student leaders, we'll congratulate the students who have won our competitions and have represented the Auckland Law School nationally and internationally. We will mark the achievements of our students who have won prizes and scholarships. What they all have in common is hard work, commitment, perseverance, interest and enthusiasm for the law. I'd like to welcome all the students here tonight who are receiving awards. You've done well and the members of the faculty here tonight join me in congratulating you on your achievements. I'd like to welcome family members and close friends of our students who are able to be here this evening. Our students wouldn't have achieved their success without your support, your encouragement and your love. You can be very proud of all they've achieved and in knowing that you've helped make their success possible. I'd like to welcome many of the individuals and representatives of firms and organisations who have donated prizes and scholarships for our best students, who have supported our student societies and the events and competitions they organise and who have given financial assistance to the law school and to what we seek to achieve. We are immensely grateful. Prizes, the scholarships and the donations you provide mean a lot to our students. They recognise their hard work, the hours spent in libraries, late before exams, seeking to master particular cases, legal principles and whole areas of the law. This is a very successful law school nationally and internationally. We're very proud of our students and we're very grateful for the support that many of you here tonight have given us. I'd like to welcome the members of the legal profession and the judiciary who are also here tonight. We're very grateful for the support you also provide to us, not only in financial terms but also by helping and mentoring our students, adjudicating moots and competitions and supporting student and faculty activities. The format of tonight's awards ceremony is that the awards will be presented in groups, so I will invite the groups in the order that they are in the programme on your tables. I'll invite each group to come forward and together here on the left-hand side of the stage. You can gather in the order that you are mentioned in the programme. When I call your name, if you then come forward to the stage, the steps are just here. If you come forward, shake my hand and then if you proceed to the deputy dean, she will give you your certificate. I suppose that's the moment at which audience members can congratulate you as you come forward. But once you have received your certificate, you could then move to the other side of the stage because at the end of each group presentation, there will be a brief moment when we will take a photograph of the group as a whole and that I suppose will be another chance just to congratulate that particular set of students for what they have achieved. So I'm sure we'll all get the hang of it once the first group of students start the process. I'd invite at this point those who are mentioned as student leaders in the programme if you could come forward and in the order of the programme assemble just here to my right or to the left of the stage. And as they are doing so, so if they could come forward now, as they are doing so, I'll just mention the organisations, the student societies that they represent. The Auckland University Law Student Society is one of the most active and successful student societies in the country. It organises a wide range of competitions, seminars, workshops, sports and social events for the students. Tarakau Turi is our society which provides support and community for our Māori law students. So it's very important for our new Māori law students to feel welcome and feel that there are senior students they can talk to and be mentored by. And one example of this is the annual hauranga that our Māori law students organise to go and speak at schools and rural areas of New Zealand about the merits of coming to university and studying law. The Pacific Island Law Students Association similarly provides community and support for Pacific Island students and just recently has had their first event for the year where over 70 of their members are took part in their start of year camp. Rainbow Law is the society established to provide community and support for our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. The Equal Justice Project over many years has involved hundreds of our students in providing free legal assistance for people and organisations who would not otherwise receive access to the law in partnership with community groups and the legal profession. The Auckland University Law Review is an entirely student run, high quality legal journal and that involves the editors and chief are responsible for ensuring that a very large team of students do all the reading, editing and publishing of that journal to a very high standard. The Law Review, not to be mentioned with the Auckland University Law Review, the Law Review involves a large number of students taking to the stage each year to sing, dance, satire and otherwise lampoon various aspects of the law and the legal profession. I think one year recently one of their video clips received I think about five million downloads, somewhat more probably impact in terms of people seeing what they did than many of the articles that our academics publish. The Mootin Society was established several years ago to promote and advance mooting competitions and learning about mooting in the law school and has over 700 members so very many of our students take part in their activities and we'll see later the successes that have been achieved in many ways partly as a result. Could we first thank and congratulate this year's student president, Rai Sinan. The Educational Vice-Presidents, firstly, Liddy Buckley and Liddy, by the look of it, can't be with us or has gone to the wrong venue. Linda Lim, both of them, well at least hopefully they are together doing something to advance the cause of education in the law school. The Taraka Turi Koutumawaki, if we first could thank two, there are two co-presidents of Taraka Turi, Marri Law Students Association, Alex Greaves and also Kimberly Murray. This is proving a distressing feature of our student leaders. They're so busy working on student causes, they forgot to give their apologies but we shall punish them later. If we come on to the Pacific Island Law Students Association we have co-president Robin Lissatelli. This is a bit like an Oscar's gone dramatically wrong but hopefully we won't present the wrong awards to anyone. So, with a certain measure of hope in my voice, I will call upon Rainbow Law Directors Alex Cranston and John Kingey, Equal Justice Project Director, Jade McGrath, Law Review Editor, Kayleigh Ansell and the Singing and Dancing Law Review. We have Directors Tom Blackwell, Paige Coulter and Robbie Hines and Mooting Society President, James Penn. You'll see that the photographs after each group give you the opportunity, a subtle opportunity to replenish the food and drink or at least about take of more of the food and drink in front of you. We now come to the competition winners and representatives and I'd ask if the winners of the Auckland Law School competitions would come up to the stage. So that's everyone who has won a Law School competition but not including the international competition representatives who will be the next groups, up until the Ministry of Justice Sentencing Competition. And I suppose what these awards are doing is they are recognising the fact that every year we have very large numbers of our students compete in all sorts of competitions which help them learn and develop the sort of skills that will be really valuable as lawyers. So they take part in witness examination, negotiation, client interviewing and mooting competitions. I should mention that a moot is effectively a mock court case on a point of law so in some ways it's the closest experience to appearing in a court to argue a legal issue and that's why we have quite a number of mooting competitions in the Law School. I would like to thank the law firms who sponsor these competitions and support the costs of our sending the winners of them to represent the Law School in New Zealand and Australian competitions. First up, if we congratulate the winners of the Battle Findlay Senior Negotiation Competition. Firstly, Michael Greenup. I think you're up and on. And also, Hona Kerry. The Battle Findlay Junior Negotiation Competition winners, Seamus Barnett and Bryce Robertson. The winner of the Russell McVay Senior Client Interviewing Competition, James Penn. Winners of the Russell McVay Junior Client Interviewing Competition, Helen Anion Peters and Sam Brebner. Winner of the Minter Allison Rudd-Watt Witness Examination Competition, Antonio Bradley. Winners of the Brian Shinkan Family Law Memorial Moot. Firstly, Nicola Davies. And I think already on the stage but back for a second certificate, James Penn. And the winners of the Kali Thompson Kaisley Employment Law Moot, Darren Gunasakara and Anthony Camphorst. The winner of the Gina Ruddland Memorial Prize which is a competition on Maori legal issues for the top mooter in that competition, Cameron Jacob Sawyer. And the winners of the Pacific Lawyers Association Prize for the mooting competition on Pacific legal issues. Firstly, Jessica Matheson and also Grant Delisle. Winners of the Junior Mooting Competition, Michael Greatricks and Lisa Dick. And we established several years ago and the Mooting Society were instrumental in establishing this competition but we also had a lot of contributions particularly from the class of 1970 towards the John Hay QC Memorial Mooting Competition. This is for intermediate level mooting and the winner of that is Thomas Leggett. The winner of the Meredith Connell Greg Everard Memorial Prize for Mooting may already be on the stage, Michael Greenup. And the top competition for mooting, the most senior competition for mooting is the Stout Shield which is part of the Bell Gully New Zealand Senior Mooting Competition. The winner of that competition and also the Gary Davis Memorial Prize for the top mooter in the competition, Tia Nelson. The winners of the KPMG Case Competition Alexandra Finucane, Mika Hill-Smith, Charlie Ling and Bernard Valla. And finally in this set of awards, the winner of the sentencing competition run by the Ministry of Justice, Kyle Simonson. If I could ask the students who have represented the Auckland Law School and international competitions to assemble on the side of the stage and I know that some of them will have already been up because of having won Auckland Law School competitions but again obviously those who take the next step forward and get to represent Auckland or indeed in some cases New Zealand internationally have done incredibly well. The Auckland Law School again last year, our team that was selected on the basis of our mooting competitions to represent us in the New Zealand mooting competitions won that competition and I suppose it's worth noting that that was the ninth time in the last 10 years that Auckland has won the national mooting competition so I think it is a sign of the strength of our students and of our competitions programs. I'd like to acknowledge the help and assistance given by many practitioners, judges and mediators in judging and giving tips to our teams as they prefer to go and compete internationally. The first team I'd like to recognise is the Red Cross Asia-Pacific International Humanitarian Law Moot team. So this was a team that firstly had to compete against all of the other New Zealand law schools and won the Humanitarian Law Mooting Competition in New Zealand and then went to Hong Kong where that team competed against 23 other teams from around the Asia-Pacific region and going into at the end of the preliminary rounds were ranked second of the 24 teams competing they did extremely well they were ranked as having had the best prosecution memorial the memorial is the written application and they also one of the team members, Hannah Reid was ranked as the best speaker in the competition. So if we can congratulate our representatives in that our representatives in that competition firstly, Joey Gore Hannah Reid and the coach of the team, Trassa Dunworth and sometimes people say that mooting is overly dominated by men and it was great to see this result was achieved by an all-woman team the next team that took part was our team that represented Auckland in the Australia and New Zealand Air Law Moot Competition and aviation law has been a subject we've developed recently at Auckland with the support of Air New Zealand we've been absolutely superb to see how well some of our students have done in Air Law Moot competitions this year, or last year I should say they won the Australia, New Zealand Air Law Competition beating the University of Queensland in the final so if we could congratulate again I suppose a mainstay of that team Hannah Reid Kyle Simonson and the coaches Michael Greenup and Nick Porter and the other two competitions that were presented in recently and this was only about a month and a half ago we sent a team to actually I've got three more teams to mention but back in February we sent a team to the international Chamber of Commerce's international commercial mediation competition and this is an immense event it involves hundreds of mediators from around the world it involves 65 university teams in more than 30 countries and our team this year reached the semi-finals they were ranked third equal in the world and only just missed advancing to the final can we congratulate first Antonio Bradley Sam Brothers Caroline Coates and their coach Anna Leonard just a few weeks ago we had the team return from the Phillip Jessup International Law Moot competition this competition is held in Washington DC each year and is regarded as one of the most prestigious mooting competitions in the world there were around 630 competitors at the event in Washington and our team did impressively well they had taken part actually in a pre-mooting competition and this was held for a number of the teams that were going to be in Washington they won the European pre-moot competition held in Budapest at the Jessup competition in Washington they were placed second for the applicant memorials so that was out of all the teams that took part they were ranked second in the world for the quality of the applicant memorials they were ranked the best applicant team when you combine the applicant memorials and the speaker scores and one of the team members Michael Greenup was ranked the third best speaker in the world and another of the team members Andrew Grant was ranked the best speaker in the world at the Jessup competition so quite extraordinary and outstanding results if we congratulate all of the team members firstly Catherine Eichelbaum Michael Greenup Tia Nelson and the coaches Jack Davies and Greta Schumacher and as you can see I think there's really been superb results by our mooting competitors we also sent a team to the William Lewis commercial arbitration moot this is the largest mooting competition in the world it's held annually in Vienna had around 350 teams competing this year the team competed in a number of pre-mooting competitions and were first in the Paris pre-mooting competition and runners up in the Heidelberg competition I would like to particularly Bankside Chambers for sponsoring the teams participation and the support that Sir David Williams who's here present, one of our alumni who's been instrumental in Bankside Chambers support has given could we congratulate Honor Kerry Michael Schmoll and coach Tom Clark Tom works in a law firm so I dare say they haven't let him escape but again I think they've had such impressive results that if we again congratulate all of our international competition representatives of the new entrant prizes come to the left-hand side of the stage the winners of the new entrant prizes receive a $100 book token but perhaps more importantly they are recognised as among our very best school leavers who've joined the Auckland Law School these are very competitive awards awarded to students leaving school from throughout the country and I suppose it's worth noting that every year we have up to about 1500 students who take part who are enrolled in first year law but we only award 19 new entrant prizes and we're awarding a further 9 new entrant scholarship so as you can imagine to be one of the 19 singled out for one of these prizes means that we have high hopes of these students going forward if we first congratulate Nicholas Allen Rosalie Kettison Natasha Decreek Isabel Douglas Ayesha Gole Yannis Gonzales Ichan Leo Rebecca Lloyd Veronica Manning Jayden McNeill Siobhan Pike Achi Noan Simhoney Sophie Vreberg Sanchita Waas Selena Wright and with the winners of the next set of awards each receive a $1,000 scholarship and these are students who have had superb school results and again as I mentioned given that we have up to around 1500 first year law students that then drops to 380 students at second year law these really are incredibly high achieving students if we first congratulate Noreen Gakushin and Isabella Graham Danuki Karuna-Sakira Gabriela Penn Ella Steven Rene Jang and I think you can see that all of our top first year students given the gender make-up we would hope to see many more woman judges and law partners emerging as a result in a number of years before we start on the second half of the programme we always have a tradition at these ceremonies of introducing someone who's contributed a lot to the law school one of our notable alumni to say a few words about their experiences that may inspire some of the students today and I'm very pleased that we have one of our most prominent alumni able to do so today Rene Sachinand is a graduate of the Auckland Law School he worked as a lawyer he was appointed a district court judge he was the ombudsman of New Zealand for 10 years during which time he dealt with all manner of complaints difficulties that individual citizens experience and how they are treated by government departments and then as you'll all be aware became Governor-General of this country from 2006 to 2011 so Rene's career has been one of dedicated and committed public service we appointed him a distinguished fellow of the Auckland Law School and true to his character of humility, commitment and service he's been someone who hasn't just taken the title but has lived it who every month comes and spends time at the law school who will talk to some of our classes about the role of law with respect to government, administration who will take part in judging mooting competitions helping mentor for our equal justice project and in all sorts of ways is a wonderful presence around the Auckland Law School I would ask you to welcome this evening Rene Sachinand Dean Andrew Stockley thank you for your generously expressed welcome Deputy Dean Susan Watson faculty members present throughout the room distinguished guests including judges of many courts Law Society President newly elected Joanna Pigeon those who have presented and who will present for awards this evening and importantly your family members ladies and gentlemen kiora tena koutou katoa my contribution this evening in this narrow slot that the Dean spoke of is in two parts the first being the speech I spent some little time preparing of an orthodox contribution by a senior legal personality saying things that are expected on occasions such as this that speech noted the importance of this time closing off an important phase in your legal education it acknowledged the commitment of yourselves and your families seeing things through to this point the speech asked that you of course continue to keep the contact with your law school in the time ahead and it drew attention to the power of the network that you already have in which we have seen on the stage and the continuing availability of that if you choose to draw down on it. I would then have spoken about the value of the experiences at the university and the law school in particular and in the loyally skills one acquires to comprehend and hopefully solve some of the multi-layered issues that will confront you in our increasingly complex world. I was into writing what used to be called the peroration when I reflected on an aspect of my current reading of two books by a leading United States medical personality and by his name you'll see this person of Indian origin like myself Artul Gawande who has written being mortal and better and at least one or two other titles that you see in the better quality bookshops and the challenge that he presented recently to graduating medical students on the experience of his lifetime as a surgeon teacher and consultant I thought it might be better to frame the five pieces of advice that he gave to the medical students Mutatis Mutandis for lawyers on their journey law students on their journey and thus there is a second part of my contribution this evening the first item is ask an unscripted question a doctor and a lawyer in my view should never lose the ability to ask questions and should never lose the faculty of being inquisitive being inquisitive and continuing to ask questions can only lead to trouble in very limited circumstances like the senior New Zealand council appearing in the privy council in the late 1960s saying to one of the law lords do you follow me, my lord to which the answer came I follow your argument if that is what you mean Mr X the second item after ask an unscripted question is don't complain as lawyers and law students you have acquired skills to identify flaws and mistakes and ways in which these might be resolved instead of complaining it seems good advice to say to you to do something about securing redress beyond just complaining the third item is count something this being shorthand for law students and lawyers and people of a legal background to observe and record and in the event of seeing things occur and particularly if they recur then considering what action may be appropriate the fourth item of advice is to write something you acquire skills as students of the law and as lawyers in writing and legal writing the present time provides opportunities for people of a legal background to write formally in briefs and opinions in correspondence and pleadings but also and not unimportantly in journals and in blogs writing and documenting are essential legal skills and they benefit from continued polishing and improvement and tonight is an appropriate opportunity to underline that for everyone present the fifth and final thing is change the world in front of all of you who are receiving these awards this evening is one where you will come to apply your skills having received your award there will be an expectation and you will have the next step where you will apply your skills in a number of ways do not feel hidebound by the choices that you may have made to date may I be willing to back yourself and to make change resolutely if that is warranted so those are the things that I leave in the room with you ask don't complain count write and change in closing I would like to quote two people first the champion New Zealand motor racing driver the late Bruce McLaren who once said it would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability for life is measured in achievement not in years alone and then lastly the late Steve Jobs co-founder of Apple who died in 2011 after a lengthy illness and he once said your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life don't be trapped by dogma which is living the results of other people's thinking don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice and most importantly have the courage to follow your heart and intuition they that is your heart and intuition somehow already know what you truly want to become everything else is secondary that seems to me at least to be a suitable note on which to end and to wish each of you well kia ora kia kaha thank you for your kind attention thank you Sir Anand with the winners and recipients of the undergraduate prizes and scholarships up until the Lexis Nexus Prize in Land Law would you come forward to the stage after first year law our students embark upon the core compulsory law subjects the major areas of law that involve lots of conceptual thinking contract, torts public law, crimes land equity they then go on to study courses and we're very proud that here at the Auckland Law School we offer the largest number of electives by some distance of any of the law schools in this country we have scholarships and subject prizes to recognise those who achieve excellence in the different courses that we have you'll note that quite a number of our subjects have prizes but equally we offer many more subjects so if there's anyone here who feels that they would like to contribute certainly we're willing to take to endow a more subject prizes as a result the first scholarship to recognise tonight is the A.G. Davis Scholarship in Law awarded to A.G. Davis Scholarship in Law awarded to A.G. Davis Scholarship in Law awarded to A.G. Davis Scholarship in Law and Information Technology Prize awarded to Shirley Shang the Brookfield Lawyers Scholarship for Academic Merit and All-Roundability and a student who has completed Part 2 Law awarded to Freddie Fall the Chapman Trip Scholarship for Iwi Governance awarded to Taha Rako Brown and to Olivia Rapata the David R. Mummery Memorial Scholarship in Law for Part 2 Students awarded to Isabel Kelly and to Candio the Davies Spraw Memorial Prize in Family Law awarded to Nicola Davies and to Paul Snade the Desmond Lewis Memorial Prize in International Law awarded to Tia Nelson and to Hannah Reid the Erica Pab Scholarship honours the life and vision of those who give back to the community and show commitment to justice for the weakest members of society this year it was awarded to Alan Ryan the Hermanga Taitai Prize for Academic Achievement and also the winner of the Thompson Reuters Medical Law Prize Matthew Tumoe the JP Campbell Prize for the best work in any two final year electives awarded to Samuel Johnston the Johnston Foundation Prizes the Helen Burnett really well done Helen, congratulations and I think already on the stage also awarded to Tia Nelson the Judge Avanish Deb Kato Memorial Prize in Criminal Procedure awarded to Helen Savage the Lexis Nexus Prize in Land Law awarded to Rebecca Scoggins and if I could ask the other winners of the undergraduate prizes and scholarships to come forward to the front the first of the awards is the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Prize awarded to Augusta Wills the Martin Finlay Memorial Scholarship for a Part 3 student awarded to Jonathan Miliana the Meltzer Mason Prize in Company Liquidations awarded to Alexandra Rankin the Meredith Connell Prize in Corporate Finance Law awarded to Gemma Miletic the New Zealand Law Review Prizes are awards given for the best results in first-year law firstly Andrew Coffin John Gardin and Isabel Kelly the Resolution Institute Dispute Resolution Prize awarded to Catherine Kerr and also to Tinezi Anapia the Richmond Chambers Prize in Juris Prudence awarded firstly to Shu-jen Ryan Chow and also to Sebastian Hartley the Robertson Prize in Insurance Law awarded to Jack Alexander the Shortland Chambers Prize in Public Law awarded to Yanate the Simpson-Gress in Employment Law Prize awarded to Anthony Campus the Sir Alexander Johnston Scholarship and Law awarded already on the stage to Sebastian Hartley we have a new prize this year the Staples-Rodway Fill Banks Prize in Tax Law who was the tax manager at Staples-Rodway he passed away in August of 2015 and we're very pleased tonight to have with us members of his family including his wife Sandra his daughter Laura his brothers Steven Graham his niece Fiona and his partner Trish and we want to very much acknowledge the contribution that he made to Tax Law and to Staples-Rodway if we congratulate Tia Nelson the Thompson Reuters Criminal Law Prize awarded firstly to Alexia Grindel also to Madeleine Hay and to Julia Wiener the Thompson Reuters Prize for Civil Procedure awarded to Tracy Kelderman and the last of the Undergraduate Scholarships and Prizes the Thompson Reuters Prize for Torts and Contract awarded to James Rankin would the winners and recipients of the Postgraduate Prizes and Scholarships please come to the stage the Auckland Law School has the largest LLM programme in New Zealand, indeed we have as many master of law students as all of the other New Zealand law schools combined so in some ways I think it's a little bit of a pity apart from the fact we've prolonged the ceremony that we don't have more Postgraduate Prizes and Scholarships so anyone who would like to assist in this area you'll be very welcome our Postgraduate programme and we also know and for the fact that every year we bring in a range of overseas scholars who come and contribute and who teach on that programme so it's something that makes it we get a lot of overseas students who as a result also come and study on the programme the first of the awards is the Alan and Virginia Green Prize in Environmental Law that has been awarded to Kristen Jones the Fauld's Memorial Prize for the top master's student of law's Sarah Katani and the Moana Shvelga Memorial Pacifica Student Scholarship Patricia Fulcox and this one should be a little bit easier to focus on and would the winners of the Faculty of Law Dean's Academic Excellence Awards come to the stage, not the senior scholars at this stage but the winners of the Academic Excellence Awards these are awards that are given at the end of the undergraduate degree and they are awarded to the top 10% of the graduating class so given that we graduate just over 300 students a year for the LLB and the LLB Honours Degrees these students have obviously done incredibly well to be recognised as the top 10% of what is already a very high achieving cohort because as mentioned to get through even into second year law there's an enormous number far more students who don't get through into second year law than do and the winners of the Faculty of Law Dean's Academic Excellence Awards if we firstly congratulate Amir Ansari Harriet Birch Dion Shalingai Jerome De Vries Silwin Fraser Jasjeet Grewal Victoria Henderson Natalie Koch Amelia Lam Jayamung Rebecca Morris Jonathan Morton Augusta Wills and Lewis Whitcomb-Cahill and if the recipients of the senior scholar awards could come forward at this point these are students who have won Faculty of Law Dean's Academic Excellence Awards but in addition they have also won senior scholar awards and these are given across the university to the very best students in all faculties so in the case of law this meant that we were allocated seven senior scholarships to award to our graduating class of just over 300 so as you can imagine to be one of the seven scholars are singled out for one of these awards is an incredible achievement and one that requires consistent excellence across all subjects if we could first congratulate Jack Davies Dennis Dowle Samuel Johnston Abigail Lawson and Maxwell Smith and the final award of this evening is given to the top law undergraduate who wins the Auckland District Law Society's Prize which also means of course as a winner of the Faculty of Law Dean's Academic Excellence Award and also a senior scholar award would you congratulate this year's top student Linda Sullivan again on behalf of all the faculty can I congratulate all of the students here because as I said at the outset the leadership that they show for the students societies and for working for the community and well-being of students in all sorts of different ways in all sorts of clubs and societies for the different communities that make up this law school for the way in which many of our students have competed have taken part in many hours of preparation in many hours of practices for their competitions and then have excelled so incredibly well congratulated obviously those students who's academic work and whose commitment and perseverance and ability to understand aspects of the law again is reflected in the awards that they have received and in the recognition that we give to them tonight as our very best students and as people who will go forward I'm sure and will work in the law but will bring with them hopefully what they've gained from this law school is the hard work of application of working for all sectors of the community and in the very best way to live up to the traditions of this law school and the achievements of its alumni. I'd like to thank all of our alumni here tonight who support us through these awards but also through the mentoring through the practical assistance by judging Moots competitions by coming in and giving of their time and energy and passion in so many different ways as well as it's no coincidence that when you've seen that many of the coaches of our teams are in fact recent graduates who have benefited from the programs that we've run but have then come back have organised to put in the hours taking our teams forward but bringing in many of the older alumni whose work commitment means they can't put in much many of the same hours but can come back in with their experience and their expertise to offer assistance at that level so thank you all for the contributions you make and as I said at the start none of this would be possible without the family support the support of close friends that has nurtured and supported our students every step of the way I think there's still a little bit of wine or juice something to drink and eat you will have the opportunity if you want to photograph just with your family with a prize winner or one of the teams if you want to photograph together do get hold of the photographer and have a good evening