About the Moot

The International Dispute Resolution Moot Competition is an international mediation and arbitration competition that is open to all universities. It is being conducted by University College Lahore, Pakistan. This event will be the first of its type offering a platform to combine mediation and arbitration to a moot competition in Pakistan. We hope this competition will become an annual tradition for University College Lahore and add to its already expanding sphere of progressive events. 
The Patron of the Competition is Mr. Barrister Umar Mahmood Khan of University College Lahore, without whose support this competition would not have been possible. He is a practicing lawyer and a former lecturer of Human Rights Law at UCL. He was also the Coach of the University College Association of Mooters (UCAM) until last year.
The International ADR Moot is a competition for law students, A-Level, undergraduate or postgraduate. As this is a competition that involves both mediation and arbitration it provides a unique opportunity for students to engage in the practice of these two important areas of dispute resolution as a separate means of dispute resolution or a combination thereof.
In each round, teams will be engaged in both mediation and arbitration. In the moot, arbitration will be conducted first followed by mediation. At the conclusion of the arbitral hearing the two legal counsels for each side will divide their duties during the mediation with one acting as client and the other as attorney/legal counsel. At the end of arbitration the two sides will be given extra but separate facts which they can use in mediation. Those facts will be known to the judges but the third student who acts a mediator will not know those extra facts.
A third student from each university competing will act as an arbitrator and mediator for a different moot in which two other universities are competing. This student will serve initially as an arbitrator (one of three) sitting as the arbitral panel. Then the student will personally conduct the mediation that follows the arbitration. For more information you may also visit “structure of the Moot” section at our website. 
This competition is unique in how it combines mediation and arbitration. We aim to provide students with an opportunity to develop a high level of skills in both mediation and arbitration.
While competition will be intense we also strive to develop values of collegiality between teams who will come together in an atmosphere of friendship and respect. We hope that both professional contacts and relationships of friendship will be established during the competition.
In order to foster a long term relationship, we have created a facebook page which can be accessed at: www.facebook.com/idrucl. We strongly recommend all participants to join the page.
For a better communications with teams and other interested persons we have assigned a dedicated email address for the Moot. Any enquiries, submission of memorandum and representational plan, etc. should be sent to ucl.ucam@gmail.com.
We are looking forward to welcome you in the very first International Dispute Resolution Moot Competition of Pakistan – idr 2016.

Muhammad Talha Mushtaq
Convener
International Dispute Resolution Moot Competition