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REPORT FROM THE MOOTMASTER FOR SEM 2 2017/2018

• The IIUM Moot teams has participated in 4 competitions namely
  •  the Philips C Jessup International Law moot court competition hosted by UKM which was held from 23 – 25^th February 2018 at UKM,
  • AIAC Pre Moot ( KLRCA Moot) and Vis Moot at Asian International Arbitration Centre, Kuala Lumpur from 2^nd  – 4^th March 2018,
  • Novice Arbitration Moot Competition (NAMCO) organized by UITM in collaboration with Messrs Thomas Phillips held at AIAC building from 23^rd -25^th March 2018.
  • Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot organized by the Association for the Organization and promotion of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, at Vienna from 23^rd – 29^th March 2018.

• IIUM Jessup team made it to the final and won second place. In comparison to UITM, the Winning team, our team comprises of junior team members who have only participated in NAMCO or LAWASIA or Cyber Law Moot. Dr. Hisham has coached the team very dedicatedly. The team comprises of
  • DK Vivi Fazrenna Zaidun,
  • Auni Nadzirah Binti Roslan,
  • Nur Afiqah Wardah bt Awang Damit,
  • Muhammad Asyraf bin Mustafha Kamaruddin,
  • Mohammad Kahiruzzaman Mohammed Ridha, with 
  • Farhanah Jahn and Hidaya Moosa.

• For Pre-Moot, IIUM has sent two teams, comprising of one junior team and one senior team. Our junior team won the best outline memorial and the senior team won the best team for Malaysia and was rank 4^th in the international rounds. The winning has entitled IIUM to secure a place at the international rounds either in Vienna or Hong Kong for year 2019.

• The Junior team members are
  • Aainaa Nadira Mohammed Hashim,
  • Muhammad Badran Adha Bin Sabaruddin,
  • Aiman Farique B Rusli,
  • Eizlan Farhan Nakhrowi and
  • Iffah Nabiha Binti Ahmad Jailani.

• The senior team members are
  • Nurul Hanani binti Abdul Hadi Kamel
  • Nur Zulaikha binti Rohaizat
  • Fatin Nursa’adah binti Azman and
  • Munyra bt Muhafif

• For NAMCO competition, IIUM has sent two teams as well. Both are junior teams. The teams have worked very hard preparing for this competition under the guidance of Dr. Wan Zulhafiz, Madam Suzanna Kamaruzzaman and the mootmaster. Even though the team did not win any awards, the experience is valuable to the team members. The mooters in this competition are IIUM future mooters. The mootmaster and the coaches will further guide the mooters to participate in other future competition. The team members are:

• IIUM team A
  • Sama Saeed
  • Muaz Khawarizmi 
  • Maryam Khalisa
  • Umar Danial Bin Nasarudin
  • Faathir Imran

• IIUM Team B
  • Nur Suhaila Binti Sallahudin
  • Mutasim Adesta Fayez Ghazi
  • Syazalia Binti Che Suhaimin
  • Sharifah Noor Effah Syed Ahmad Fuad
  • Alani Farhah Binti Mohd Farouk

• The Vis Moot International Rounds was held from 23^rd-29^th of March 2018 in Vienna. IIUM Vis team represented Malaysia in this competition since we won the national championship last year. There were about 300 teams from all over the world registered for this competition. At the preliminary rounds IIUM team met a team from Portugal, Slovakia, Helsinki and Sao Paolo. Only two teams from our opponents made it to the knock out round namely team from Helsinki and Sao Paolo. The Competition was won by the Economic Institute from Russia that defeated Cambridge University UK. Although our participation was only at the preliminary round, the experience to submit before an international arbitrators and going against international teams many of which are national champions are indeed valuable. Due to budget constraints, perhaps next year IIUM team will participate in the East Vis Moot which is held in Hong Kong.

• In a few months time, IIUM mooters will be participating in the LAWASIA competition. Six (6) mooters have signed up to moot in this competition. IIUM has a good standing in this competition. We were the runners up at the national rounds and we secured third placing at the International rounds in Japan. We hope to do much better this time.

• We have also received invitation from USIM to participate in the Shariah Moot competition. I have forward the invitation to the Moot and Legal skill secretariat to advertise for candidate who would be interested to join this competition particularly to our fifth year students.

• Below are three photographs of IIUM mooting team achievement in the moot competitions.

IIUM Jessup Team

IIUM VIS team (Sr)

IIUM Vis team (Jr)

Prepared by: 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juriah Abd Jalil