{"id":416,"date":"2021-07-05T06:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/?p=416"},"modified":"2021-07-05T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:05:25","slug":"university-of-embu-law-students-win-big-in-the-kenya-national-disability-rights-moot-court-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"University of Embu Law Students Win Big in the Kenya National Disability Rights Moot Court Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Kenya National Disability Rights Moot Court Competition organised by the University of Nairobi\u2019s School of Law was held between 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 28<sup>th<\/sup> May 2021. The meeting brought together participants from 7 law schools.<br \/>\nThe competition was sponsored by Validity Foundation, an organization that champions for equality, inclusion and justice for persons with mental disabilities. It focused on mental disability rights. The issues arising included challenges that arise when a court finds a person with a mental disability guilty but insane in a criminal case.<br \/>\nCase in point was a scenario where a person with a mental disability, and accused of assault, was detained for 38 years, yet the statutory penalty for such an offence for persons without mental disabilities is between 1 to 5 years, which raised inter alia, questions of discrimination.<br \/>\nUnder the tutelage of Dr. Victoria Miyandazi, a Lecturer at the Law School, two student oralists, Mr. Munene Njoroge (2<sup>nd<\/sup> year) and Mr. Joseph Amaganga (1<sup>st<\/sup> year), and a student researcher, Ms. Mercylyn Irungu (1<sup>st<\/sup> year), represented the University.<br \/>\nThe University of Embu\u2019s School of Law students emerged third place overall, winning the \u2018Spirit of the Competition Trophy\u2019. The team attained the third-highest score for their memorials. Mr. Munene Njoroge won a trophy for emerging the 2nd best speaker in the competition\u2019s preliminary rounds. The performance of the students is an indication of the emergence of the University of Embu\u2019s School of Law as a top-tier trainer in Law in the country.<br \/>\nAmong other participants in this rigorous competition was Strathmore University\u2019s Law School which emerged winners of the final round of the competition with Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology\u2019s School of Law coming in second place. Other participants included law students from the University of Nairobi, Catholic University of East Africa, Mt. Kenya University, and Egerton University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Kenya National Disability Rights Moot Court Competition organised by the University of Nairobi\u2019s School of Law was held between 17th and 28th May 2021. The meeting brought together participants from 7 law schools&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.embuni.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}