The Younger
Society
The Balliol studentsí law society first met on February 16, 1923, for dinner and a moot in the cause of Juggins v. Balliol, an action by a scout for injuries he suffered when the Head Porter set a dog after him.
There were about eight meetings per year throughout the twenties and thirties, sometimes with dinner and always with a moot. The dinners were held in the Old Common Room, the moots in the Russell Room.
All Balliol lawyers past and present are members-- and that includes people like Lord Bingham (the Senior Law Lord) who only took up law after leaving Balliol.
Today the Society retains its traditional enthusiam
for the interests of law at Balliol, and holds convivial dinners in December,
and exuberant garden parties after Finals in the summer. But the Society
has not organised moots for some years. Certainly eight moots in a year
seem impossible for undergrads facing the demands of a twenty-first-century
curriculum. But the law tutors (who, by a little-known but ancient prerogative,
are Vice Presidents) hope to see the Society return to its mooting roots.