Parts of this timetable will be updated as the competition progresses (e.g. after the semi-finalists are announced). Make sure to refresh your browsers after key moments, to stay up-to-date!
Also – please don’t forget to take lots of photos during the moot and to upload them to this shared photo folder!
NB. All locations are hyperlinked to Google Maps, to help you find them.
Friday 25 April: Premiere Class Hotel
15:00: Check-in to hotel
The hotel only guarantees check-in from 15:00 (some rooms may be ready for check-in before then, but we cannot guarantee this). Please be aware that your registration fee covers the costs of your room and the related ‘tourist tax’. The hotel’s policy is to require guests to provide a credit-card to cover any extra costs incurred by the room during your stay, so please make sure that at least 1 person per room has a card for this purpose. No money will be charged if you do not incur extra costs.
Friday 25 April: Warsaw University, Faculty of Law & Administration
[Room A2 – bottom floor – Collegium Iuridicum II – ul. Lipowa 4, 00-316 Warszawa]
NB. There are multiple University buildings – please click on the hyperlink to ensure that you go to the correct one!
16:30-16:55: Team Number ‘Lottery‘
Teams will pull-out a number in a ‘lottery’. Using this number, you can identify (i) when the team has each moot; (ii) which side (applicant or respondent) to represent in each moot; and (iii) the opposing team in each moot.
NB. Team numbers will be added after the lottery finishes.
| Country | Team name and country | City | Team No (after lottery) |
| Bulgaria | Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ | Sofia | 6 |
| Croatia | University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law | Zagreb | 16 |
| Czechia | Charles University | Prague | 3 |
| Czechia | Masaryk University | Brno | 4 |
| Georgia | Free University of Tbilisi | Tbilisi | 12 |
| Poland | Adam Mickiewicz University | Poznan | 7 |
| Poland | Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego | Warsaw | 9 |
| Poland | College of Europe Natolin | Warsaw | 10 |
| Poland | University of Warsaw | Warsaw | 15 |
| Poland | University of Wrocław | Wrocław | 2 |
| Romania | Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Law | Cluj-Napoca | 13 |
| Romania | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University | Iași | 1 |
| Romania | West University of Timișoara – Faculty of Law | Timișoara | 18 |
| Slovakia | Comenius University, Faculty of Law | Bratislava | 5 |
| Slovakia | University of Trnava | Trnava | 14 |
| Slovenia | University of Ljubljana | Ljubljana | 17 |
| Ukraine | Ivan Franko National University | Lviv | 11 |
| Ukraine | Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University | Kharkiv | 8 |
17:00-19:30 – Conference: The Future of the European Union and its Courts
[Room A2 – bottom floor – Collegium Iuridicum II – ul. Lipowa 4, 00-316 Warszawa]
The conference speakers are current and former judges and Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the General Court. They will discuss a series of issues concerning reforms of the EU and its courts. The speakers include:
– Judge Krystyna Kowalik-Banczyk (EU General Court)
– Judge Jan Passer (Court of Justice of the EU)
– Judge Nina Połtorak (EU General Court)
– Dame Eleanor Sharpston (former CJEU Advocate-General)
– Advocate-General Maciej Szpunar (Court of Justice of the EU)
For further details, click here.
19:30-20:30 Opening Buffet
Enjoy the first opportunity to mingle with your fellow competitors and the CEEMC 2025 judges. Many thanks to Warsaw University (our co-host) for hosting this part of the CEEMC.
Saturday 26 April: Supreme Administrative Court of Poland (Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny)
08:15: Security check at ‘NSA’
Please use the court entrance on: ul. Gabriela Boduena 3/5
The NSA is a top-level, high-security building with stringent security checks. To ensure that we pass these checks and start the competition on time, the NSA asks that we arrive at 08:15. Please ensure to bring photographic ID with you. Please ensure that all teams come to the opening ceremony, regardless of whether or not you are mooting in the 1st round.
09:00: ASSEMBLY HALL: Official Opening and Group Photo
10:00- Moot round 1
NB. See above for team numbers. “1 v 2” means Team 1 (as Applicant) v Team 2 (as Respondent). Each team number is based on the results of the ‘lottery’ which happened on Friday afternoon (see results above).
All moots on day 1 (Saturday) will consider the following questions:
– Mx Theo Von Boles: Question 1
– Pastor Deformis: Questions 1 and 2
All members of each moot team must speak on Day 1, but it is not necessary for every team member to speak in each moot (i.e. the team’s speakers can be divided between the 2 moots on Day 1, if preferred).
During rounds 1 and 2, noone associated with a moot team can view a moot other than that in which their own team is competing. In rounds 3-4, this prohibition no longer applies.
| Court C | Court D | Court E | Court F | Court G |
| Ground floor | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 |
| Teams | Teams | Teams | Teams | Teams |
| 1 v 2 | 3 v 4 | 5 v 6 | 7 v 8 | 9 v 10 |
11:30: Moot round 2
NB. See above for team numbers. “11 v 12” means Team 11 (as Applicant) v Team 12 (as Respondent). Each team number is based on the results of the ‘lottery’ which happened on Friday afternoon (see results above).
| Court C | Court D | Court E | Court F | Court G |
| Ground floor | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 |
| 11 v 12 | 13 v 14 | 15 v 16 | 17 v 18 |
Lunch: Restaurant of Hotel Gromada
NB. From the hotel main reception area, go downstairs to the restaurant, which will be sign-posted with CEEMC posters.
12:30-13.15: Lunch for teams from round 1
13:30-14.15: Lunch for teams from round 2
14:30: Moot round 3
| Court C | Court D | Court E | Court F | Court G |
| Ground floor | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 |
| 2 v 3 | 4 v 5 | 6 v 7 | 8 v 9 | 10 v 11 |
16:00: Moot round 4
| Court C | Court D | Court E | Court F | Court G |
| Ground floor | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 |
| 12 v 13 | 14 v 15 | 16 v 17 | 18 v 1 |
20:00: Dinner and announcement of semi-finalists:
Hotel Campanile (Loft Restaurant)
Dinner and announcement of the 8 teams which progress to Sunday’s semi-finals. Each receives a Semi-Finalist team number, which indicates when they will moot on Sunday.
This meeting also includes a talk about the Bar of England & Wales, the role of the Inns of Court and how to become a barrister. This will be delivered by Mark Hill KC of Inner Temple, one of the CEEMC’s sponsors.
Semi-finalists:
NB. The names will be filled-in after the announcements are made:
| Team Name | Semi-Finalist Number |
|---|---|
| SF1 | |
| SF2 | |
| SF3 | |
| SF4 | |
| SF5 | |
| SF6 | |
| SF7 | |
| SF8 |
Sunday 27 April:
Supreme Administrative Court of Poland (Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny)
The semi-final moots address the following questions:
– Mx Theo Von Boles: Question 2
– Pastor Deformis: Questions 3, 4 and 5
All members of the team must speak in both moots during the semi-final
09:30- Semi-Final Round 1
| Court D | Court E | Court F | Court G |
| Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 |
| SF1 v SF2 | SF3 v SF4 | SF5 v SF6 | SF7 v SF8 |
11:30: Semi-Final Round 2
| Court D | Court E | Court F | Court G |
| Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 | Floor 1 |
| SF2 v SF3 | SF4 v SF5 | SF6 v SF7 | SF8 v SF1 |
13:30 Lunch: Restaurant of Hotel Gromada
NB. From the hotel main reception area, go downstairs to the restaurant, which will be sign-posted with CEEMC posters.
14:00: Announcement of finalists: Hotel Gromada
Announcement of the 2 finalists and ‘lottery’ to see which team represents applicant/respondent. The questions to be mooted in the final will also be announced. These may be any of the questions from either day of the moot.
15:00: Moot Final: Assembly Hall – Supreme Administrative Court of Poland (Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny)
We expect that all teams will attend the final and support the finalists. Immediately after the final, an awards ceremony takes place. Special prizes are given (to teams from all rounds of the competition) for best written pleadings and for noted speakers. Prizes include internships at the Court of Justice, visits to the UK Supreme Court and Cambridge University, free-of-charge places on the British Law Centre’s Diploma in English Law & Legal Skills and book prizes. Every competitor receives a certificate signed by CEEMC President, Dame Eleanor Sharpston KC.
20:00: Party, Food and Drink: Palermo
[Racławicka 99/D, 02-634 Warszawa]
NB. Food is served from 20:00. A drink-for-free bar (beer, wine, vodka, soft drinks) applies from 20:00-23:00.
22:30 (approx.): singing competition
Each participating country gets the chance to impress with their singing talents. Rumour has is that the judges may also be singing something…
02:00: end of party
