From left to right: Winnie George; Samantha Smith; Louis Koen; Brook Badenhorst; Thabo Mathule.
UJ law students win top Moot Court competition
the finals, they represented the respondent against the team of Rhodes University, thus defending the Department of Correctional Services by presenting an argument that the department did not fail to take reasonable measures aimed at preventing the applicant from contracting COVID-19. The team successfully presented their case, claiming the palma victoriae for UJ. A special congratulations goes to Winnie George, who was awarded the overall best speaker prize. UJ now ranks first among all participating universities in the total number of Public Interest Law .
contracting COVID-19. In addition, students were faced with the challenge of tackling a range of related legal questions pertaining to the applicant’s alleged unlawful arrest. The UJ team comprised three students, namely Ms Samantha Smit (2nd-year BCom Law), Mr Thabo Mathule (2nd-year LLB) and Ms Winnie George (3rd-year LLB), and was coached by Mr Louis Koen, Ms Brooke Badenhorst (law mentor) and Ms Kgomotso Mokoena (lecturer) with assistance provided by Ms Meghan Finn (lecturer). Following the preliminary rounds, the team – representing the defendant – beat Nelson Mandela University in the semi-finals. In
Huge congratulations to the UJ Faculty of Law team that emerged as the South African National Champion at the Public Interest Law Moot Court finals on 16 April 2021. The team, who debated a problem case concerning a hypothetical scenario of an inmate who had contracted COVID-19 in prison, continued the Faculty’s proud tradition of excellence in public interest law. Hosted by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies of the University of Witwatersrand (Wits), teams from 14 universities debated the applicant’s claim for constitutional damages arising from a failure by the Department of Correctional Services to prevent him from
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