Panjnad International Moot Court Competition 2024
In partnership with the ABA ROLI and the Universal College Lahore, CFHR organized the Panjnad International Moot Court Competition in February 2024. A total of 27 teams, comprising 81 mooters, from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Balochistan, Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Central and South Punjab participated at the competition. Participants included a total of eight all-female teams.
CFHR drafted the moot problem, focusing on family laws to raise awareness amongst youth on women’s marriage rights in Pakistan. The competition comprised a total of four rounds — two preliminary rounds, followed by semi-finals and the final. CFHR also organised a workshop on marriage rights and sexual violence, administered by Kinza Khan, a lawyer based in the United States, and Barrister Khadija Bokhari on the first day of the competition.
Participating teams boasted gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity with representation from across Pakistan. Concomitantly, 2024 was the first time in eight years of the Panjnad mooting competition that teams from Azad Jammu & Kashmir participated. To ensure greater diversity in participants, CFHR and Universal College Association of Mooters (UCAM) had reached out to relevant people in their networks to encourage their university contacts to register for the competition. In particular, invited universities were encouraged to register all-female teams in view of the moot problem’s theme centering on women’s marriage rights, resulting in a higher number of female mooters.
CFHR also sponsored outstation all-female and mixed teams from remote areas of Pakistan to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the competition. As a result, a team from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, shared that this was the first time three women from their institution were able to travel alone, which in itself was a success and breakthrough for them. In addition, one mooter from Punjab University (the winning team) observed that they had made use of CFHR’s sources on family laws and marriage rights, including the Family Law Report, to prepare for the competition.
In partnership with the ABA ROLI and the Universal College Lahore, CFHR organized the Panjnad International Moot Court Competition in February 2024. A total of 27 teams, comprising 81 mooters, from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Balochistan, Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Central and South Punjab participated at the competition. Participants included a total of eight all-female teams.
CFHR drafted the moot problem, focusing on family laws to raise awareness amongst youth on women’s marriage rights in Pakistan. The competition comprised a total of four rounds — two preliminary rounds, followed by semi-finals and the final. CFHR also organised a workshop on marriage rights and sexual violence, administered by Kinza Khan, a lawyer based in the United States, and Barrister Khadija Bokhari on the first day of the competition.
Participating teams boasted gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity with representation from across Pakistan. Concomitantly, 2024 was the first time in eight years of the Panjnad mooting competition that teams from Azad Jammu & Kashmir participated. To ensure greater diversity in participants, CFHR and Universal College Association of Mooters (UCAM) had reached out to relevant people in their networks to encourage their university contacts to register for the competition. In particular, invited universities were encouraged to register all-female teams in view of the moot problem’s theme centering on women’s marriage rights, resulting in a higher number of female mooters.
CFHR also sponsored outstation all-female and mixed teams from remote areas of Pakistan to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the competition. As a result, a team from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, shared that this was the first time three women from their institution were able to travel alone, which in itself was a success and breakthrough for them. In addition, one mooter from Punjab University (the winning team) observed that they had made use of CFHR’s sources on family laws and marriage rights, including the Family Law Report, to prepare for the competition.
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