ROMAN LAW MOOT II

ROMAN LAW MOOT II- OBLIGATIONS

OBJECTIVE

This activity aims to develop key skills for legal practice amongst the first-year students, whilst opening a much needed space for an intellectually stimulating extra-curricular environment by facilitating the active involvement and serious engagement from the students to their legal studies, starting at the first stage of their careers.
Also, this exercise is a vehicle for promoting an investigative attitude; a tool for social integration, communication and peer support by revising important notions originated in Roman Law which will be useful for the Property, Contract and Delict in the South African legal context.
The introduction of the first- and second-year students to argumentation, public speaking, and case analysis will be encouraged in a friendly atmosphere which will provide participants with an individual assessment of their strengths and weaknesses in the skills required and the concepts encountered.

MOOT SCHEDULE

- 26th August 2011: Moot Manual Handout

- 1st September: Electronic handout of Moot principles, Samples of Heads of Arguments and initial assignment of cases. (Moodle, e.mail to participants, http://www.bonietaequiars.blogspot.com/). Handout of cases.

- 8th September: Moot practice. Venue to be confirmed
- 23rd September: Moot Competition. The teams will be divided into groups. They shall present their cases simultaneously in adjacent venues. From 2Pm to 5PM

A prize-giving will take place half an hour after completion of the moots, time during which the participants and guests are invited for refreshments.

MOOT STRUCTURE

- Each team will receive a case and the party they will be representing. They have 4 minutes to present their arguments in the form of actio-replicatio-duplicatio. Thus, a case must be presented and argued completely in 12 minutes

- Each venue shall have at least three judges from the Law School and/or the legal practice. The configuration of the juries is still to be confirmed.

- Prizes shall be sponsored by a recognized practice of law, to be confirmed.

- Each venue shall have a volunteer time keeper, ideally from the group of tutors of the subject.

- All participants shall be provided with detailed feedback on their performance. This will be delivered electronically to their registered email addresses by the activity coordinator.

- Photographs shall be taken by a Law School senior student who has kindly volunteered to contribute to this event with his participation.

- The law school will be asked to support this activity by authorizing the stationary and catering requisition.