The Rhodes Law Faculty team were the overall winners of the 19th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition held at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Abomey-Calavi in Cotonou, Benin between 4 and 9 October this year, which was an outstanding achievement.?
The team comprised Ingrid Susan Cloete and Fausto Riccardo di Palma, and was coached by Prof Laurence Juma, the Faculty representative. Apart from being overall winners, Ingrid Cloete won the best individual oralist award in the Anglophone category (Chris McConnachie of Rhodes won the same award last year).
The competition, which is organised by the Centre for Human Rights of the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Pretoria in collaboration with the host country, has become the largest annual gathering of law students and lecturers on the continent, and one of the premier events of the African human rights calendar.
This year’s competition brought together 56 teams (38 Anglophone, 15 Francophone and 3 Lusophone) from 25 African countries. In the six-day event, teams are required to argue a fictitious human rights case in four preliminary rounds. The best teams from each language category proceed to the final round where overall winners are determined. The Rhodes team won all its preliminary rounds, attaining the highest marks in the Anglophone category in beating Nigeria, Ghana and the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town (last year’s runners up).
In the final round, the Rhodes team combined with Namibia and Universite de Cocody of Cote d’Ivoire to beat the combined team of Ghana, Lagos and Universite d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin. The award for the best memorial went to the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town, and Rhodes came second. Rhodes was the overall winner of the competition.
Rhodes’ participation was sponsored in part by Schindlers Attorneys.