Dear fellow law students,
Be EnGayged Mooting Competition 2025
The Be EnGayged Mooting Competition 2024 has received wide support and recognition from participants and adjudicators. We are delighted to announce the upcoming Be EnGayged Mooting Competition 2025 (“the Competition”) to be held this summer.
Be EnGayged is a student-run initiative that advocates the need for members of the LGBT+ community to be better educated about their legal rights, especially when the LGBT+ community started to fight for their rights through Hong Kong’s judicial system. As the judiciary is becoming one of the major battlefields for LGBT+ rights recognition, the Competition is organised to raise LGBT+ awareness among law students and train future advocates for LGBT+ judicial review cases. The project has been made possible through a seed grant awarded by PILnet with the support of the WYNG Foundation to the winning team of the 2019 Law for Change Student Competition. We are recognised by the HKU Faculty of Law under SELECT, a student initiative supporting scheme.
Details of the Competition are as follows:
Date: 24 August 2025 (Sunday)
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Advocacy Labs, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, the University of Hong Kong^
Format: Competitors will be assigned two competition sessions (more information would be released after confirmation of team application)
Team: 28 teams, 1-2 members(s) per team*
Application fee: HKD 50 per person**
Deposit: HKD 300 per person***
| Award and Prize: | Best Memorial Award;
Best Oralist Award; Best Team Award; The winning team will also be provided with the offer of mini-pupillage in Pantheon Chambers.
The prize is kindly funded by Pantheon Chambers：
Pantheon Chambers is a set of barristers (advocates and law specialists) chambers located in Admiralty, Hong Kong. Its members practice in all areas of the law. They are also frequently instructed to give legal advice in various areas of the law for both disputes and transactional matters such as pre and post-listing matters involving companies listed on the HKEX. Members of Pantheon Chambers also regularly give back to the community in the form of pro bono work and its members have involved themselves and assisted non-profit organisations such as Pro Bono Hong Kong, the Duty Lawyer Service Free Legal Advice and the Bar Free Legal Service Scheme.
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^ The holding of the Competition is contingent on venue availability. Subject to actual circumstances, the Competition venue may be changed or the Competition may be cancelled. Should the Competition be cancelled, all fees and deposits paid will be refunded to participants.
* Teams of two participants have to be formed beforehand. Both team members need not come from the same university.
** Payable after confirmation of team application.
*** Payable after confirmation of team application. This deposit will only be returned to the participants after the closing ceremony by cheque or electronic payment in person. Any absentee on the competition day will not be returned with the deposit unless the participant presents an official medical certificate dated 24 August 2025 to Be EnGayged or has other reasonable reason. The power of final adjudication of determining whether the reason is reasonable lies with the Executive Committee of Be EnGayged, where unreasonable reasons include, but not limited to, internship opportunities and part-time jobs.
Eligibility:
The Competition is open to all Hong Kong residents studying law (i.e. LLB, JD and LLM) in any jurisdiction who have taken a course in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights Law or equivalent, with knowledge of the Hong Kong Basic Law. LLM applicants who do not hold an LLB or JD degree are expected to possess prior experience in mooting, or they could form a team with an LLB/JD student or degree holder.
Application and Payment Method:
Please submit your application for the Competition at https://forms.gle/EtGYXWkGRhQHK7KB7 on or before 3 May 2025 (Saturday). Each team is required to submit one application only. If the number of applications exceeds the limit, lots will be drawn to assign a competition quota. A confirmation email with further payment details will be sent to every successful team in due course.
Should you have any enquiries, feel free to send an email to beengayged@gmail.com. You may also learn more about Be EnGayged by visiting our website (www.beengayged.com), and following us on Instagram (@be_engayged).
We look forward to your enthusiastic participation!
Best regards,
Be EnGayged
