Rules for 2010 UCU Intra-University Moot Competition

Rules for 2010 Intra-UCU Moot Competition:

Teams:

Each team shall be comprised of at least two and no more than three members.

All team members must be enrolled in UCU’s Faculty of Law in 2010.

All team members must be from the same year of study. Team members are not required to be enrolled in the same intake sessions.

Teams shall be registered when they file their briefs electronically.

Schedule:

Briefs should be submitted in electronically to Brian Dennison at bdennison@law.ucu.ac.ug by May 13, 2010. Late briefs will only be accepted through May 20, 2010. Please make sure you receive confirmation within 48 hours of filing your brief. If you do not receive confirmation please follow up to inquire as to the status of your filing.

Teams that have been selected to compete in the oral rounds will be posted at the Faculty of Law and on the UCU Moot blog at http://ucumoots.blogspot.com/ by May 25, 2010 .

The oral competition will be scheduled to take place some time in June of 2009.

Briefs:

In order to compete in the oral rounds of the Intra-UCU Moot teams are required to file a single brief on behalf of either the Petitioner or Respondent.

The brief shall consist of a title page, a table of authorities, a concise statement of facts and proceedings (not to exceed 3 pages in length), a legal argument section, and a short prayer of relief. The legal argument should make up a majority of the brief.

The brief must be typed, and double-spaced. The minimum font size is 12 point.

The legal argument section may not exceed 25 pages. There is no minimum length.

The names of all team members and their year of study should be listed on the top corner of the first page of the brief and at the end of the brief on a by-line.


Scoring of the Briefs:

The briefs will be scored on the following grounds:

Writing Style and Organization – 20 Possible Marks
Legal Analysis and Application of Law to Facts– 20 Possible Marks
Compliance with Instructions – 10 Possible Marks

There is a 5 mark reduction for each day that the brief is filed late. No briefs will be accepted after 3 April, 2009.

Oral Rounds:

The teams with the four highest scored briefs in each year of study will be permitted to compete in the oral rounds. If there are four briefs or less than four briefs submitted for any year of study, all teams that have submitted briefs in that year of study will advance to the oral rounds with the highest scoring brief receiving a bye in case there is an odd number of entries.

The teams from each year of study will compete against each other to determine the winning team from that year.

The four teams from each year of study will compete against each other for the title of Intra-UCU Champion.

Each Oralist in the Oral Rounds will be scored as follows:

Knowledge of Law: 20 possible marks
Application of the Law to Facts: 20 possible marks
Ingenuity and Ability to Answer Questions : 20 possible marks
Style, Poise, Courtesy and Demeanor: 20 possible marks
Organization: 20 possible marks

In the first two rounds, the team with the highest brief score will get to choose which side it wants to argue.

In the final two rounds the side to be argued by each team will be determined by coin flip.