Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition 2022-2023
We are pleased to inform you about Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition 2022-2023
CALS is proud to partner with the Student Litigation Society (SLS) to host the Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition. We invite law students from any university in South Africa to participate
While South Africa has seen significant gains in the last 27 years since transitioning to a consitutional democracy, there is still much work to be done to ensure true equality and social justice for all. South Africa needs a new generation of human rights lawyers with the energy, ingenuity and skill to respond to the ongoing socioeconomic and political fallout from the issues we still face today.
The Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition gives law students the opportunity to showcase these skills by working on a hypothetical case which brings together questions around labour rights, the rights of children, the right to education, the interests of the public as well as individual rights to bodily integrity, amongst other rights, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Entry requirements
Students taking law courses in their second to fifth year at any university in South Africa may enter. Students must form teams comprising of two or three members to enter the Competition. Students enter the competition by registering here or by emailing pilmoot@lawguild.co.za before 7 December 2021. Thereafter, teams have until 23 December 2021 to submit heads of argument for both the applicant and respondent of the hypothetical case.
Teams will compete against one another to progress from the initial rounds of written submissions to a virtual oral submission round, where teams will present their oral arguments on a virtual platform. The final round of the Competition will see the successful teams making oral submissions before a panel of judges at the Constitutional Court of South Africa in April 2021. Members of the winning team will have the opportunity to be preferentially considered for a fully paid internship at CALS.
Before entering, please read the full competition rules below or download a copy of the information pack here.
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Find out more about the Student Litigation Society.