Some 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. Any locations indicated below 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
[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!
18:00-18:30: 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 | |
| Croatia | University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law | Zagreb | |
| Czechia | Charles University | Prague | |
| Czechia | Masaryk University | Brno | |
| Georgia | Free University of Tbilisi | Tbilisi | |
| Poland | Adam Mickiewicz University | Poznan | |
| Poland | Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego | Warsaw | |
| Poland | College of Europe Natolin | Warsaw | |
| Poland | University of Warsaw | Warsaw | |
| Poland | University of Wrocław | Wrocław | |
| Romania | Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Law | Cluj-Napoca | |
| Romania | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University | Iași | |
| Romania | West University of Timișoara – Faculty of Law | Timișoara | |
| Slovakia | Comenius University, Faculty of Law | Bratislava | |
| Slovakia | University of Trnava | Trnava | |
| Slovenia | University of Ljubljana | Ljubljana | |
| Ukraine | Ivan Franko National University | Lviv | |
| Ukraine | Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University | Kharkiv |
18:30-20:00 Welcome and Opening Buffet
Enjoy the first opportunity to meet your fellow competitors and the CEEMC judges. Many thanks to Warsaw University (our co-host) for organising the opening buffet.
Saturday 26 April: Supreme Administrative Court of Poland (Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny)
09:00: 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 evening (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
| Court 1 | Court 2 | Court 3 | Court 4 | Court 5 |
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| 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 evening (see results above).
| Court 1 | Court 2 | Court 3 | Court 4 | Court 5 |
| Room details to be confirmed |
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| 11 v 12 | 13 v 14 | 15 v 16 | 17 v 18 |
12:30-13.15: Lunch for teams from Moot round 1
or
13:30-14.15: Lunch for teams from Moot round 2
14:30: Moot round 3
| Court 1 | Court 2 | Court 3 | Court 4 | Court 5 |
| Room details to be confirmed |
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| 2 v 3 | 4 v 5 | 6 v 7 | 8 v 9 | 10 v 11 |
16:00: Moot round 4
| Court 1 | Court 2 | Court 3 | Court 4 | Court 5 |
| Room details to be confirmed |
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| 12 v 13 | 14 v 15 | 16 v 17 | 18 v 1 |
20:00: Dinner and announcement of semi-finalists:
Location to be confirmed
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)
In the semi-finals, the following questions will be mooted.
– Mx Theo Von Boles: Question 2
– Pastor Deformis: Questions 3, 4 and 5
09:30- Semi-Final Round 1
| Court 1 | Court 2 | Court 3 | Court 4 |
| To be confirmed | |||
| SF1 v SF2 | SF3 v SF4 | SF5 v SF6 | SF7 v SF8 |
11:30: Semi-Final Round 2
| Court 1 | Court 2 | Court 3 | Court 4 |
| SF2 v SF3 | SF4 v SF5 | SF6 v SF7 | SF8 v SF1 |
13:30: Lunch for semi-finalists
14:00: Announcement of finalists
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.
15:00: Moot Final: 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
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
