UZ law team set to leave for Tanzania

Moot Court competition pencilled for November 12 to 19.
Tapiwa Mari, Tinashe Tanyanyiwa and Taona Nyamakura will be meeting representatives from other countries in Arusha after thrashing Midlands State University in a national competition that was held yesterday at the High Court in Harare.

The International Committee of the Red Cross will fund their trip. The teams were arguing on the strengths and weaknesses of the International Humanitarian Law in addressing armed conflicts.
MSU argued that IHL was adequate in addressing issues regarding armed conflicts, while UZ counter-argued that it did not adequately address the issues.
UZ, which was being coached by former competition winner Advocate Thabani Mpofu and Advocate Happias Zhou submitted that IHL had some loopholes and that it had been overtaken by time.

Judge President George Chiweshe chaired the panel of judges.
Announcing the results yesterday, Justice Chiweshe hailed the two teams for well-researched and eloquent arguments.
Justice Chiweshe said both teams performed well and that the judges had a difficult time to decide the winner.

He said the teams were almost at par in terms of performance during the session, but the judges had to announce one winner.
Justice Chiweshe presented a trophy to Mari of UZ before handing over some boxed presents to all participants from both teams.

The competition is an annual event organised and sponsored by ICRC and for the past four years UZ had been the winning team.
MSU has always been the losing team.

The winning team is given a chance to participate at the Pan-African IHL Moot Court competition. The profile of the competition has significantly risen since last year when it was hosted at the High Court.
Judges of the High Court and leading civil society organisation heads attended yesterday’s competition.

The UZ won the Pan-African competition in Tanzania in 2009 and came second last year.