Law students from seven schools throughout the Caribbean took part in a keenly-contested law moot in which a Bahamian law school emerged the overall winner last Wednesday. It was the Eugene Dupuch Law School's (Bahamas) second straight back-to-back victory since the inception of the law moot competition in 2009. The Norman Manley Law School, the competition's first year winner, placed second this time around, and the Hugh Wooding Law School was third. Participants of the Third Annual Caribbean Court of Justice International Law Moot, at the Caribbean Court of Justice Court, Room 1, Henry Street, Port-of-Spain, comprised of law students from the University of Guyana, University of the West Indies (Cave Hill), Norman Manley Law School, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Hugh Wooding Law School, Eugene Dupuch Law School (Bahamas) and the University of Technology of Jamaica.
The Eugene Dupuch Law School (Bahamas) fielded a winning team comprising of Roderick Malone, Anishka Pennerman and Wilfred Bain who were groomed and accompanied by advisor Carla Card-Stubbs and Tonya Bastian-Galanis, principal of the Law school. The moot competition case presented, focused on competitive business practices in the Caribbean region, and the law as it applies to the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and the Caribbean Community Competition Commission. The students presented their legal skeleton arguments before a panel of presiding CCJ judges, Justice David Hayton, JCCJ, Justice Jacob Wit, JCCJ and Justice Winston Anderson, JCCJ, who were very impressed with the submissions of the students and their outstanding understanding and interpretation of the Treaty.
Among the observers of the competition were Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, Ivor Archie; Minister of Legal Affairs, Prakash Ramadhar; former CCJ judge, Duke Pollard; Surinamese Ambassador Fidelia Graand-Galon; president of the Industrial Court, Cecil Bernard; chairman Tax Appeal Board, Anthony Gafoor; chairman of Caricom Competition Commission, Kusha Harracksingh; representatives from the Ministry of Trade and Industry; customs and excise; the principals of three Caribbean law schools; and, the Dean of Law faculties and law schools.