The Kate O’Regan Moot Competition is the University of Cape Town’s premier moot competition. The inaugural competition was hosted in 2017. Since then, the competition has been a major success, attracting some of the highest profile legal practitioners in South Africa as adjudicators. These practitioners range from attorneys, advocates, and academics to former and current Constitutional Court Justices - including Justices Sachs, Cameron, Moseneke, Nkabinde, Kollapen and O’Regan.
2024
Another successful Kate O'Regan Intervarsity Moot Competition was hosted by the UCT Law Faculty. The Centre for Law & Society and the UCT Moot Society assisted by the Moot Committee ran the competition on 24 August 2024.
2023
In 2023, CLS joined the UCT Student Moot Society and Faculty Moot Committee as a co-host of the competition. The moot included 11 teams from across South Africa.