FBC to Represent Salone
John Foray Banting, LLB Honors II, Ebunolowa Finda Tengbeh LLB Honors I, and Evelyn Mannah LLB Honors of Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone will November of this year represent Sierra Leone for the Pan Africa Moot Cut Competition in Arusha Tanzania at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. (Photo: FBC Law Department receiving their trophy from Justice Gelaga King President Salone Special Court)
According to the Communications Officer, Sierra Leone Red Cross Society Patrick Massaquio, he said the National Moot Cut Competition is an extra curriculum activity were participants take part in simulated court proceedings; a mock court where students argue hypothetical cases organized and financed by the international Committee of the Red Cross Freetown Delegate. He said this year’s competition is the eighth competition on International Humanitarian Law which accommodates six teams drawn from the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), Fourah Bay College University (FBC), Milton Margai College of Education, and Njala University.
He said FBC Law Department and IPAM qualified to the finals after an 80-minute presentation of both teams on hypothetical cases on armed conflict, where the FBC Law Department emerged as the winner.
Patrick Massquio intimated to this medium that the winning team will have to go through a month’s training in order to prepare the team for the Pan Africa Moot Cut Competition in Arusha, Tanzania.
Massquio said the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Foreign Affairs, and the international Committee of the Red Cross, the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society, private legal practitioners, and the Institute of International Law have consented to train the winning team.
He said over the years, the Special Court for Sierra Leone has been supportive in providing their court facilities and judges, including their legal officer, to preside over the competition, draw up the cases, and also help train the winning team.
Ibrahim Konneh, private practitioner, Major Alistair Wills’s legal adviser IMATT, Justice Gelaga King, President Special Court Sierra Leone among others acted as judges for the said National Moot Cut competition held at the Sierra Leone Special Court, New England, Freetown on Friday July 20th of this year.
The runners up included Musa .S. Kuyateh, Matilda Marrah and Sarh I. Sam from IPAM.
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