The Moot Court

A spacious well-equipped moot court room provides the setting for training advocacy skills. Advocacy skills form a substantial part of the two Legal Practice courses and all students are required to participate in the annual moot competitions during which they argue points of law.

Each year Rhodes sends a team of two students to the All Africa Moot Competition in which over 60 African law schools participate. Students also participate in the annual Client Counselling Competition which focuses on interviewing skills. In 1999 the Rhodes Team was selected to represented South Africa in the Final Round in Chicago and were placed second.

2004 saw Rhodes achieving their best ever results in the All African Competition, including top-10 positions overall, in the written memorials section and for Gareth Deiner in the top-oralists competition. In an endevour to match or even better the results of 2004. As was the case in 2004, Rhodes also held a highly successful moot in 2005 against the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s (NMMMU) Law Faculty. The Rhodes/ NMMU was held on Saturday 20 August in the Rhodes Law Faculty Moot Room. This inter-varsity moot provided both invaluable preparation for the participants and gave a number of other law students, who were present in the audience, a chance to learn more about mooting and trial advocacy in general.