11th National Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition

COMPETING against Eastern University Moot Court Society (EUMC), Dhaka University Moot Court Society (DUMCS) became the champion of the 11th National Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition 2015. The competition was jointly organised by Bangladesh Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law (Asian SIL-Bangladesh Chapter) and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 8-10 October 2015 in Dhaka. In total, more than 60 law students from 19 different public and private universities participated in the competition.

This year the mooters argued on the issue of war crime and genocide, and presented their both prosecution and defense cases before a fictitious International Criminal Court. The champion team was consisted of Muhammamd Omar Faruque, Nadia Rahaman and Masrur Bin Ansari from the Department of Law, University of Dhaka. Representing DUMCS in the competition, the team was coached by Dr. Nakib Muhammad Nasrullah, Professor of Law, University of Dhaka. The runner-up team EUMCS was represented by Masuma Bil Afroze, Wardi Zaman and Suborna Das, and coached by A.B.M.Imdadul Haque Khan, Assistant Professor of Law, Eastern University. Both the teams have qualified for representing Bangladesh in the South Asian Regional Round of the competition, scheduled to be held on the first week of December in Pakistan.

The best memorial trophy was awarded to Northern University, Bangladesh. Masuma Dil Afroz from EUMCS was awarded with the best mooter trophy, while Farhana Yasmin from South-East University was awarded with the best researcher trophy.

In the valedictory ceremony, amongst others were present: Mr. Justice M.A. Matin, retired Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Mr. Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain, Judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Mr. Sazzad Sharif, Chief of Judge Advocate General Core in Bangladesh Army; Professor Dr. Borhan Uddin Khan, President of Asian SIL-Bangladesh Chapter and Chairman of Department of Law, University of Dhaka; Dr. Mohammad Nazmuzzaman Bhuian,

Vice-president of Asian SIL-Bangladesh Chapter, Dr. Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman, Treasurer of Asian SIL-Bangladesh Chapter and Ms. Kirsty Welch, Regional Legal Advisor of ICRC.

The Event coverd by Nadia Rahaman, Student of LLM, Univeristy of Dhaka.