The 2007 Law Student Writing Awards recently announced the winners.

About the Awards

The purpose of the competition, sponsored by the Insolvency Institute of Canada (IIC),

is to stimulate interest among law students in the research and development of papers based on corporate insolvency and restructuring topics and to recognize outstanding achievement in this endeavour.

The prizes for first, second and third place are $5,000, $3,000 and $1,500, respectively.

First prize also gets all paid trip to the IIC conference in October in Napa Valley, California.

Contestants submitted a 3,000 word paper on structuring in an insolvency.

The judging panel is chaired by The Honourable James Farley of McCarthy Tetrault, and formerly of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

2007 Winners

First prize was awarded to Marie Bruchet of the University of Western Ontario for “Director Removal and the CCAA,” which proposed amendments to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA).

Second prize was awarded to James Mangan, also of the University of Western Ontario, for “What Is ‘Deepening Insolvency’ and Should It Come to Canada?”.

Congratulations to you both.