KNUST Law Faculty Wins Moot Court Competition 2016
The team from the Faculty of Law of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology emerged winners of this year’s Georgina Theodora Wood Moot Court Competition.
The KNUST team, in addition, took the prizes for the Best Oralist and Best Memorial categories. The Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Coast were runners-up. The competition was held on the 2nd and 3rd March, 2016.
The competition which was on Constitutional Law formed part of the celebration of the Faculty Week. Beside the winners, competing Law Faculties were Mount Crest University, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). Judges for the competition were Justice Mabel Agyemang, the representative of the Chief Justice; Justice Sir Dennis Adjei; Mr. Maxwell Opoku Agyemang; Mr. Michael Gyan Owusu and Mrs. Marian Jahawry.
Justice Mabel Agyemang, the representative of the Chief Justice, giving her comments on the event, stated that watching the students argue, she and the other panellists have been impressed by their performance. She commended faculty for training the students so well in critical and analytical reasoning, legal writing, interpretation and oral skills.
Dr. Mrs. Lydia Apori Nkansah, Dean of the Faculty of Law, stated that the Moot Court competition was a forum for learning for both lecturers and students. She said it was very good to subject faculty and staff to such an assessment. Mrs. Apori Nksansah noted that moot courts are extracurricular activities, but, at KNUST it forms part of the curriculum, and students are taught and examined on it. She was grateful to competing faculties for preparing and participating in the competition. Again she was grateful to the panel of judges.
The competition is an initiative of the KNUST Law Faculty intended to bring the country’s law faculties together for competitive mooting at the national level. This competition which is the first of its kind in Ghana and for which her Ladyship the Chief Justice gave her blessing, started in 2013.
The competition is an opportunity for the Ghanaian legal community to celebrate her achievements and to monumentalize her legacy for generations of lawyers to come. It recognises the selfless public service and invaluable contribution to the development of the law that culminated in her appointment as the first female Chief Justice of Ghana and as one of the most influential women in Ghana and in Africa.GH CAMPUS GIST says congrat KNUST
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