The 2021 Moot
Pertinent Documents:
Important Dates:
October 15: Deadline for schools to register
October 22: Problem delivered to schools
October 30: Participant schools to submit any clarification requests
November 15: Deadline to change whether registered mooters are arguing as Applicant or Respondent
January 22: Applicant facta due
February 12: Respondent facta due
February 25: Additional case law, if any, due
March 11 and 12: Oral rounds for the Moot
March 12: Virtual social event
Winners and Awards:
Top Law School (The Top Law School Award is awarded to the team with the highest total score.)
1st place: Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia – Simran Hothi, Karen Jantzen, Paul Van Benthem, Yan Wang
2nd place: Université de Montréal
3rd place: Queen’s University
Top Group (The Top Group Award is awarded to the group with the highest total score in the final round.)
Université de Montréal – Pascale Baghdisar, Arnaud Hoste, Sabrina Kosseim, Emmanuelle Lanctot
Top Oralist (This award goes to the mooter with the highest average individual oral argument score from preliminary rounds)
Sabrina Kosseim, Université de Montréal
Top Oralist Team (The winner of the Top Oralist Team Award shall be the team with the highest average team oral argument score from preliminary rounds.)
1st place: Université de Montréal – Pascale Baghdisar, Arnaud Hoste, Sabrina Kosseim, Emmanuelle Lanctot
2nd place: Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
3rd place: Osgoode Hall Law School
Top Factum (This award goes to the team with the highest average factum score.)
1st place: Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia – Simran Hothi, Karen Jantzen, Paul Van Benthem, Yan Wang
2nd place: Queen’s University
3rd place: Université de Montréal
Videos and Photos:
2021 – Opening Ceremonies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALWMpaDajPs&t=394s
2021 – Oral arguments – Final Round https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3lrhs7ZAnM&t=181s
2021 – Awards Ceremony and virtual cocktail reception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtg3ZEgH6LU&t=537s
The 2021 Moot was made possible by the financial contribution of sponsors, and in particular our presenting sponsor, Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers:
Thank you as well to our others sponsors, the Department of Justice, Desloges Law Group, Fragomen, and CILF:
The virtual reception was run by Ateliers et Saveurs and is made possible by the generous donation of Baker McKenzie and McCarthy Tétrault:
Thank you as well to the volunteer team at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Massey College for their assistance with translation:
