About LAWASIA

LAWASIA is an international organisation of lawyers’ associations, individual lawyers, judges, legal academics, and others that focus on the interests and concerns of the legal profession in the Asia Pacific region. LAWASIA facilitates its members’ participation in the most dynamic economic region in the world. Since its inception in 1966, LAWASIA has built an enviable reputation among lawyers, business people and governments, both within and outside the region, as a committed, productive and genuinely representative organisation.
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About Mooting

The Moot Standing Committee acknowledges the importance of and observes that mooting has emerged as a critical component of legal education simply because it provides the skills training element for the fundamental skills necessary for a prospective lawyer. Indeed many leading law schools have either made mooting compulsory or forms an important part of the curriculum. Mooting offers a systematic training process of the essential skills of problem solving, legal analysis, drafting legal submissions and the development of public speaking. The ability to articulate one’s thoughts and arguments condensing disparate, often conflicting legal authorities into succinct and persuasive arguments is arguably the single most important weaponry in the lawyer’s arsenal.

Some Law Schools have yet to recognise the importance of mooting where it is considered an extracurricular activity confined to and organised by the student body. Such neglect cannot be allowed to continue if we are to raise the standards of our lawyers to meet the needs of a globalised world. We recognise that the constrains of individual Law Schools and for this reason the Committee would encourage all Law Schools not only to participate but hopes that its students would be encouraged to attend the Competition.
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About the 5th LAWASIA International Moot 2010

The 5th LAWASIA International Moot is scheduled to be held in New Delhi, India between 10 - 14 November 2010. We expect some 18 leading Law Schools from all over the world to participate in this competition.

This year's Problem involves a dispute between an international pharmaceutical company which owns all patent rights on a new drug (The "Miracle Cure") and the Director of Intellectual Property of a small country which has authorized the domestic production and importation of the patented drug without the patent owner's permission in order to treat a serious disease ("killer flu") which has infected many of its people. In addition, the Director has arranged for the importation of a very similar drug manufactured by the pharmaceutical company's biggest competitor which has been held to infringe the company's patents in other counties under the so-called doctrine of equivalents.

The principal issues relate to the obligations imposed on WTO members to protect the intellectual property rights of foreign companies and access to medicine under TRIPS.