Law event
First national commercial moot court session
Corporate law practices have recently assumed front burner dimensions in Bangladesh. Because of increased public ownership of companies as well as increase in the judicial activism as demonstrated by the recent decisions in various spheres, the corporate law is becoming more and more challenging in the legal arena. This Moot competition was responsive to this emerging challenge in order to create a better understanding and awareness about corporate law among the future young lawyers.
The Dhaka University Moot Court Society (DUMCS) with the sponsorship of AB Bank Limited arranged the two-day long “AB Bank First National Commercial Law Moot Court Competition” where the participants argued on a fictitious problem on corporate matters. It was the first time, when with the sponsorship of a prominent banking authority, this kind of moot court took place in Bangladesh. On September 18 the event was formally inaugurated at the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka by the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Borhan Uddin Khan. Mr. Niaz Habib, Deputy Managing Director, AB Bank Limited was also present on the occasion. They expressed their views about holding this kind of event for the first time in this country. Different public and private universities attended the competition among which the teams of South-East University and the University of Dhaka made their way to the final round. University of Dhaka won the competition while South-East University became the Runner-up.
The Final Round of the competition was presided over by Justice M A Wahhab Miah, while Justice A F M Abdur Rahman and Justice Miftah Uddin Chowdhury were the other two members of the bench. The formal closing ceremony of the two-day long competition was graced by the presence of Prof. Dr. S. M. A. Faiz, Vice Chancellor of University of Dhaka and Mr. Niaz Habib, Deputy Managing Director of AB BANK. Dr. Borhan Uddin Khan, Dean, Faculty of Law and the President of DUMCS chaired the ceremony. Honourable Vice Chancellor congratulated the winning and Runner-up teams and expressed his kind support and encouragement for any such future moot competitions to be organized by the DUMCS. Mr. Niaz Habib expressed his contentment about the whole process of the exciting moot court competition; he also stated that AB Bank Limited is always with the scholars of the country to support them and it will try to give all its efforts to arrange such competitions in future on corporate matters in collaboration with DUMCS.
-Law Desk.
