KNUST Faculty of Law wins 2022 Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

The KNUST Faculty of Law Team has won this year’s Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition held in Cairo in Egypt.

In addition, to being crowned as the overall winners, the KNUST Team also won the following awards;

Winners of the preliminaries

Best Oralist

Second Best Oralist

Best Memorial

This year’s edition which was held from 25th to July 30, 2022, at the British University in Egypt, had a total of  50 law Faculties across Africa who have battled it out from the preliminary session.

KNUST Team

Team KNUST was represented by Ms. Afia Owusua Banahene, Ms. Anita Enyonam Dei, and Ms. Majida Issah Abah. 

They were accompanied by their Coach; Mr. Ezekiel Osei, the Dean; Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, and the Registrar of the Faculty; Mrs. Abigail Dzama Anderson, who were there under the auspices of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa to observe the competition as KNUST FACULTY OF LAW prepares to host next year's edition of the competition.

PARTICIPATING FACULTIES FROM GHANA

In all, three Ghanaian Universities took part in the preliminary session of the competition. These are KNUST, the University of Ghana, and GIMPA.

However, the team from KNUST stood tall among their counterparts by topping in the preliminary qualifying round, proceeded to the quarter-finals, won again to qualify to the semi-finals, and eventually won the ultimate prize as winners of the competition.

This has placed the KNUST team in the prestigious position as the only English team from West Africa to qualify for the finals and win as well.

Even though the University of Ghana team qualified for the quarter-finals, they could sadly not proceed to the semi-finals.

For Team GIMPA, it did not go beyond the preliminary qualifying stage of the competition.

In addition to winning this year’s Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, KNUST has also been selected to host the 2023 edition.

Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

This is the largest gathering of students, academics, and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa.

This annual event brings together all law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The Competition continuously prepares new generations of lawyers to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before the African Court.

It has since its inception in 1992, hosted 150 universities from 50 African countries.

This year’s Hypothetical case tackled issues relating to internet intermediary liability in addition to climate change and human trafficking.