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Past Moot Competitions
Brief Report on the 3rd LAWASIA Moot Competition 2008
The University of Hong Kong emerged as champions by a slim margin over the University of the Philippines for the LawAsia Challenge Trophy, at the 3rd LAWASIA Moot Competition.
The Chair of the LAWASIA Moot Committee, Mr Raphael Tay commented that a number of eminent lawyers who had the arduous task of judging the Competition told him that they had found the quality of the participants at this year's moot to be of the highest calibre they had ever encountered in their years of judging moot competitions.
The charming and elegant Christopher Louie Ocampo from Philippines was adjudged the winner of the Mah Weng Kwai Trophy for Best Mooter. Christopher said that he had found the experience very enriching, and commented that the competition was a fun-filled one.
Mooting requires an ability to articulate one's thoughts and arguments condensing disparate, conflicting legal authorities into succinct and persuasive arguments in a congenial demeanour.
Christopher has been described as an "excellent speaker" who displayed "excellent poise and smooth presentation", who was "thoroughly prepared and knew his facts and law very well".
His coach, Professor Rowena Daroy Morales, commented that the LawAsia moot competition was comparable to the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Given the preponderance of written submissions in Malaysia nowadays, it was perhaps unsurprising that the home team from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia won the Lawasia Trophy for the Best Memorial.
The Committee awarded two special prizes, partly based on votes of the participating teams themselves. Runners Up, the University of the Philippines, were awarded the Spirit of LawAsia award for best reflecting the ideals, values, virtues of fair play, camaraderie, magnanimity and generosity in a competitive environment.
The Best Endeavour Award for the team that overcame challenges, difficulties and obstacles in order to participate in this competition went to the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, who had competed without a coach and practiced and travelled to Malaysia on their own.
Ms Rajeswari Kanniah, of the Host University Taylor's University College Kuala Lumpur, said "It has been a pleasure to be able to host, although it was quite a monumental task especially for the students who had a fun and wonderful experience, especially as they also had an opportunity to have full access to the Conference."
The University of Hong Kong were represented by Ng Chung Yan, Ernest and Law Wai Shan, Deanna and coached by Oliver Jones.
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Brief Report on the 2nd LAWASIA Moot Competition 2007
The 2nd LAWASIA Moot Competition was held in conjunction with the 20th LAWASIA Biennial Conference at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) on the 6 and 7 of June 2007. The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law was the host of the Competition and the Law Society of Hong Kong was the official sponsor. The topic of the Moot Problem was on Cross-border Child Abduction.
A total of eleven (11) teams from universities in nine countries/regions in Asia Pacific participated in the Competition this year. The teams came from Tsinghua University, China; the University of Hong Kong; National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India; the University of Jammu, India; Konkuk University, Korea; Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia; Taylor's University College of Malaysia; Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal; Ateneo de Manila University, Phillipines; Moscow State University, Russia; and Sri Lanka Law School.
Each team mooted twice in the General Rounds held on 6 June 2007, once as counsel for the Applicant and once as counsel for the Respondent. The performances of all participants were highly commended by the judges.
The four (4) teams that proceeded to the Semi-Final Rounds held on 7 June 2007 were Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Taylor's University College of Malaysia, Sri Lanka Law School and The University of Hong Kong. Of the four teams, Taylor's University College of Malaysia and The University of Hong Kong received higher scores in the Semi-Final Rounds and advanced to the Final Round.
For the Final Round of the Competition, we were extremely honoured to have the Right Honourable Dame Sian Elias, GNZM, Chief Justice of New Zealand, the Honourable Chief Justice Gleeson AC, Chief Justice of Australia and the Honourable Mr. Justice Bokhary, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, presiding as judges.
The University of Hong Kong acted as counsel for the Applicant and Taylor's University College of Malaysia acted as counsel for the Respondent.
The University of Hong Kong emerged as the winner of the competition with only two points separating the scores. Mr Randy Shek of the University of Hong Kong received the highest score in the General Rounds and won the Best Mooter award.
This LAWASIA Moot Competition was sponsored by the Law Society of Hong Kong.
The members of the Advocacy & Mooting Society who volunteered as court bailiffs are Calvin Ma, Leo Li, Michele Chan, Paul Mok, Bonita Wong, James Yeung, James Wong and Fiona Lai.
Brief Report on the 1st LAWASIA Moot Competition 2005
The inaugural LAWASIA Moot Competition was held in Gold Coast, Australia.
In its first year, the moot was open to teams from universities in LAWASIA Member countries. Dr. Ros Macdonald of QUT School of Law was the LAWASIA Moot Coordinator. Seven teams travelled to the Gold Coast, and not without difficulties, such as troubles with visas and flight delays.
Teams came from the HuaZhong University of Science and Technology Law School (HUST), China; the University of Hong Kong; Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India; Sri Lanka National Law College; the University of Malaya, Malaysia; International Islamic University of Malaysia; and the University of Western Australia.
The semifinalists in the inaugural ABA LAWASIA Moot were the University of Hong Kong, International Islamic University of Malaysia, the University of Malaya and the University of Western Australia.
From the semifinals, the University of Hong Kong team and the University of Western Australia team competed in the final.
The Finals judges, Justice Santosi Hegde, Justice Garry Downes and Judge Michael Rackemann unanimously decided that the winner of the Final was the University of Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong team was Ms. Leona Cheung, Ms. Queenie Lau, and Ms. Asa Collett, coached by Dr. Hong Xue.
The University of Western Australia team was Mr. Chris Pearce, Mr. Geoff Kuehne and Mr. Andrew Lodder.
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