Oxford undergraduates win Kingsland Cup mooting competition

Two undergraduate students from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford have won the 2025-26 Kingsland Cup mooting competition. Navin Sivakumar from Hertford College and Lukas Lim from Brasenose College are the first team from Oxford to have won the competition since it was founded in 2011. The Kingland Cup is Francis Taylor Building’s annual mooting competition aimed at students at university and bar school. 

The competition ran across three rounds: an initial written submissions round, semi-finals and finals. Oxford was 1 of 4 teams selected nationwide to advance to the semi-finals, on the strength of their written submissions in the first round. The students then argued these submissions orally in the semi-finals in a round presided over by Mr Justice Kimblin. Having won the semi-finals, Navin and Lukas were issued a fresh moot problem for the finals, prepared a new set of written submissions, and delivered oral submissions before Sir Keith Lindblom.

The final was held at Gray's Inn in London, and Navin and Lukas prevailed over a team from Cambridge to take the Kingsland Cup.