UWI and CUPL students tackle moot on maritime delimitations
08 June 2022
Team Cave Hill will be looking to emerge triumphant when the Caribbean-China International Law
Moot Court Competition returns this week after a two-year hiatus.
The 2022 Caribbean-China International Law Moot Court Competition will be held from June 10 to 12 online. The competition resumes in a virtual format after being suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teams from The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus Faculty of Law and the China University of Political Science and Law will compete on the topic Dispute Between The Republic of Independent Marinnes and The Republic of Tranquilita on Maritime Delimitation.
Team Cave Hill will be represented by K-jel Smithen, Rawletta Barrow, McKaeda Augustine, and Michael Partrick. They will compete against Dingkuo Lv, Chanjuan Li, Qingxin Zhang, Yue Xu, and Yijia Li of the CUPL.
A brief ceremony preceding the competition will be addressed by Principal of The UWI Cave Hill Campus, Professor Clive Landis and his counterpart Principal of the CUPL, Professor MA Huaide.
Mooting is a rigorous exercise to train students to develop their advocacy, legal research and writing skills, as well as to think critically on interesting and topical legal issues. It also helps them to demonstrate their competence to prospective employers.
In preparation for the competition, they are assigned roles based on a fictional fact pattern (the Compromis) and are required to research the law governing all the issues raised.
On completion of their research, the students are required to write formal legal submissions, called memorials, which summarise the relevant facts.
Team Cave Hill lost to their Chinese counterparts when the inaugural competition was held in Barbados in 2017. However, they captured the 2018 competition, in addition to winning all prizes in all other categories: A’Shanté O’Keiffe was judged Best Oralist for the Applicant; K-wani Roberts Best won the award for Best Oralist for the Respondent; UWI Team 2 won the Best Memorial for the Applicant, while UWI Team 1 won the prize for Best Memorial for the Respondent.
Team Cave Hill was represented by K-Wani Roberts, Andiesa Weste, Ashante O’Keiffe, and Jeriah Rock.
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