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Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition

- Lee-Anne Bruce

CALS and the Student Litigation Society invite students of law at South African universities to participate in a Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition

To commemorate Human Rights Day, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) and the Student Litigation Society (SLS) plan to host a Public Interest Law Moot Court Competition on 20 and 21 March 2021. The competition will see students grapple with the intersections between the plights of human rights defenders, migrants and incarcerated persons during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will give them an opportunity to model both the soft and hard skills at the core of litigating in the public interest.

Participants will compete against one another other in teams to progress from the initial two rounds of written submissions to the final two rounds where they will make oral arguments. The final round of the Competition will see the remaining two teams making their case before a panel of judges at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Members of the winning team will have the opportunity to be preferentially considered for a fully paid internship at CALS.

Find out more and register to participate in the Public Interest Moot Court Competition over here.

Follow #PILMOOT on Facebook and Twitter to follow the developments of the competition.

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