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.
2026
The University of Cape Town Law Faculty is pleased to announce that registration for the annual Kate O’Regan Intervarsity Moot competition is now open. We welcome participation from your Law Faculty.
The theme of this year’s competition, to be held on 5 September 2026, is ‘Automated Decision-making and Human Rights’. The competition schedule, rules and fact set are attached. Kindly note that registration closes on 24th April 2026. The names of participating team members should be confirmed by 30 June 2026.
Register for the competition here: https://forms.gle/eWkHv4YSeWH8BThU6
Any queries may be directed to Jemima Thomas (pbl-cls@uct.ac.za).
2025
Owing to UCT’s Faculty of Law hosting of the 34th Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Competition this year, the annual Kate O’Regan Intervarsity Moot Competition will take place in February/March 2026. Updates will be provided once further details are available.
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.
