NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
SINGAPORE WINS THE 10TH LEIDEN-SARIN
INTERNATIONAL AIR LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION
Team from Leiden
University, The Netherlands comes second.
Vinay Kumar
Mohali
The team from the National University
of Singapore won the 10th Leiden Sarin International Air Law
Moot Court competition which concluded here at the Army Institute of Law today.
V.Santhosh, Liew Zhi Hao, and Carina Tay of Singapore were joyous after winning
the moot court competition defeating their close competitors from the Leiden
University of The Netherlands, giving the judges too a tough time to decide
about the winners. The finals of the event were judged by Justice
Mahesh Grover, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court; Jiefang
Huang, Director, Legal Affairs and Externa Relations Bureau, International
Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Prof. Dr. Regula Dettling-Ott,
University of Bern in Switzerland. Justice (retd) S.S. Sodhi, former chief
justice of Allahabad High Court, and President of the Sarin Memorial Legal Aid
Foundation, congratulated the winners and the participating 18 teams from 11
countries. Besides the winning trophy, the winners from Singapore also received
a letter of offer for internship in the UN body, International Civil Aviation
Organisation, from Director Jiefang Huang on the spot. Prof. Dr. Pablo Mendes De Leon, Director,
International Institute of Air and Space Law of Leiden University commended the
contribution of Sarin Memorial Legal Aid Foundation for making the competition memorable
for each participants and the 50 members international jury from 40 countries,
which had congregated in Chandigarh. He recalled the tenets of the Chicago
Convention on International Civil Aviation which celebrates its 75th anniversary
which was to promote friendship and better understanding among nations of the
world, which, Dr Pablo said has been fulfilled through this international air
law moot court competition.The teams had come from Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Germany,
The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and Singapore, besides India, for
participation. Sarin Memorial Legal Aid Foundation and Leiden University of The
Netherlands. Every year the Moot is held in a different location and it has
travelled from Dubai (2011), Istanbul (2011), Abu Dhabi (2013), Bucharest
(2014), Beijing, China (2015), Jakarta, Indonesia (2016), Malta (2017), Seoul,
South Korea (2018), and now with India edition over this year, the next year’s
competition shall be held in Shenghai, informed M.L. Sarin.
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