American International University - Bangladesh (AIUB) organized its Intra-Department Moot Court Competition 2023, its fourth iteration, from August 2 to 5.
The competition began with an opening ceremony where Dr Tazul Islam, dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), inaugurated the competition, and Dr ABM Rahmatullah, associate dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), gave his welcome speech, reads a press release issued on Friday.
The final round of the competition took place on Saturday and the judges of the final round were Zafar Ahmed, justice, High Court, Mohammad Sayed Ahmed, senior advocate and member, Bangladesh Bar Council, and Dr Jamila A Chowdhury, professor, Department of Law, University of Dhaka.
In the valedictory ceremony, Justice Zafar Ahmed, as chief guest, shed light on the importance of moot competitions in court practice and appreciated the efforts of the competitors and encouraged them to gain more knowledge for making their arguments more persuasive.
The ceremony started with opening remarks by Prof Dr Taslima Monsoor, adviser, Department of Law, AIUB, while Sadman Rizwan Apurbo, lecturer, Department of Law, anchored the ceremony.
Prof Md Abdur Rahman, pro-vice chancellor of AIUB, gave a vote of thanks and expressed his gratitude to the judges of the final rounds for taking their time and visiting the university.
After two days of intense mooting, the team comprising Khan Md Lamim Ebny Habib, Tasnuva Tabassum Eshara and Sheikh Naser emerged as champion and Animesh Sutradhar, Debashis and Atia Afrin Epty as a team became runner-up.
The team comprising Md Hossain Ahamed, Nurnahar Akter Sathi and Sanjida Binte Shamsuddin got the Best Memorial award for submitting the best-written submission in the competition.
For excelling in the researchers’ test held on Saturday, Nurnahar Akter Sathi earned the badge of the Best Researcher where two mooters, namely SM Salman and Farhan Kabir, bagged the Best Mooter Award for their excellent performance throughout the competition.
