The Be Engayged Mooting Competition 2021 has received wide support and recognition from participants and adjudicators, and we are delighted to announce the upcoming Be EnGayged Mooting Competition 2023 (“the Competition”) to be held this summer.
Be EnGayged is a student-run initiative that advocates the need for members of the LGBT+ community to be better educated of their legal rights, especially when the LGBT+ community started to fight for their rights through Hong Kong’s judicial system.
As the judiciary is becoming one of the major battlefields for LGBT+ rights recognition, the Competition is organized to raise LGBT+ awareness among law students and train future advocates for LGBT+ judicial review cases. The project has been made possible through a seed grant awarded by PILnet with the support of WYNG Foundation to the winning team of the 2019 Law for Change Student Competition.
Be EnGayged is supported by HKU SELECT (Student Experiential Learning Community Service Task Force) spearheaded by Professor Alice Lee at HKU Faculty of Law, which provided the venue for the Competition.
Details
Date: 20 August 2023 (Sunday) Time: 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Venue: Advocacy Labs, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, the University of Hong Kong Team:21 teams, 1-2 members(s) per team*
Format: Competitors will be assigned two competition sessions (more information would be released after confirmation of team application).
Prizes: Best Team, Best Oralist, and Best Written Submission
* Teams of two participants have to be formed beforehand. Both team members need not come from the same university.
Best Written Submission Team 11 - Kwong Cheuk Pui, Roxy Honourable mentions: Team 2-Chan King Hei, Henry Team 8-Kim Sun Ho, YU Jirong Jeremy Team 14-Wong Wai Cheuk David, Wong Wai Yiu Daniel Team 12-Joyce Leung, Samantha To
Best Oralist Team 14 - David Wong
Honourable mentions Team 11-Kwong Cheuk Pui, Roxy Team 6-Chan Wan Justin Team 8-Kim Sun Ho Taem 8-YU Jirong Jeremy Team 16- Tang Ho Cheong Anson
Best Team Team 8 - Kim Sun Ho, YU Jirong Jeremy
Honorable mentions: Team 11-Kwong Cheuk Pui, Roxy Team 14-Wong Wai Cheuk David, Wong Wai Yiu Daniel Team 13-Wong Sum Yi Sammi, Wong Si Wing Nicole
With our heartfelt gratitude, we thank Mr. Azan Marwah from Pantheon Chambers and Ms Amy Barrow from Macquarie University for drafting the moot problem and the bench memorandum to the moot problem.