Composition

2. The Competition shall be open to not more than one team from each participating institution.
3. Each team shall have two students as mooters. Each participating institution may also opt to include one student as a researcher (the “Researcher”).
4. Each team will represent either the Prosecutor or the Defendant. The roles of Prosecutor and Defendant will be allocated by means of a random draw under the instruction of the Organizing Committee on or before 4th January 2012. Each team will be advised whether they represent the Prosecutor or the Defendant by means of e-mail on or before 6th January 2012.

 
Eligibility

5. The total number and eligibility of teams² to participate in the Competition shall be decided by the Organizing Committee, subject to the following conditions:
   1. The winning team from each local competitions, organized in cooperation with the ICRC/National Societies of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, shall be eligible to participate in the Competition;
   2. Each collaborating institution is entitled to send one team to participate in the Competition;
   3. Notwithstanding Rule 5(v), there would normally be one team from the same country to participate in the Competition;
   4. Eligibility of institutions interested in the Competition but coming from countries or regions with no local competitions, shall be considered by the Organizing Committee pursuant to Rule 1 (iii);
   5. Organizing Committee, at its own discretion, may invite or consider additional nominations made by the ICRC or National Societies of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, provided that the total number of participating teams does not exceed the maximum set for that year.
6. Participating students shall be a registered student of the relevant participating institution, either for a first degree in law, including Juris Doctor (JD), or for any postgraduate qualification in law below the level of a doctorate. A person is ineligible to participate in the Competition if he or she:
   1. Is registered for a doctoral degree in law, excluding JD, at a participating institution or at any other institution;
   2. Holds any doctoral degree in law, regardless of the institution that conferred such doctorate;
   3. Holds or has held a full time or part time teaching post in law at any tertiary institution; or
   4. Has been admitted or licensed to practise law in any jurisdiction.
7. Participating students need not be nationals of, or normally resident in, the country in which their participating institution is located.
8. A person is ineligible to participate in the Competition if he or she has already participated twice in previous years, regardless of acting as mooter or researcher.  Participating students must make a declaration when registering for the Competition that they have not participated twice in previous years whether as a mooter or as a researcher. This declaration must be verified by the respective team coach or by the contact persons delegated by the participating institution under Rule 10. Any false declaration could lead to disqualification of the entire team concerned.
9. The Organizing Committee shall have discretion to:
   1. grant exemption for specific requirement(s) relating to the eligibility pursuant to Rule 6 should the Organizing Committee in its view consider such requirement(s) being not applicable/practical in a local competition, and
   2. determine the eligibility of participating students in case of disputable circumstances.

Registration

10. Each participating institution must notify the Secretary/Assistant Secretary(ies) via e-mail (to ihl@redcross.org.hk) on or before the registration date³ of:
    1. The names of the two mooters and the researcher, if any;
    2. The law degree or programme in which each mooter and the researcher, if any, is enrolled (e.g. LL.B.);
    3. The number of times the mooters and the researcher, if any, have participated in the Competition before;
    4. The team coach, if any; and
    5. The name, address, e-mail address, fax number and telephone number of a contact person, who should not be in a student status, as delegated by the participating institution.

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11. Winning teams from local competitions (under Rule 5) held after the registration date may submit registration form shortly after the local competitions, provided that prior request is made by the organizers of the local competitions before the registration date and with approval granted by the Organizing Committee. The teams in concern shall accept and follow all other dates and deadlines as stated in the Rules.

Team Coach

12. Each team may be accompanied by a team coach to Hong Kong, who should be a law teacher, a legal practitioner, or a Red Cross/Red Crescent legal officer. The team coach of individual team, if any, should be responsible to verify the declaration made by its participating students as mentioned under Rule 8.
13. To expand the pool of judges and to share their expertise, team coaches may be invited to participate as judges of general rounds of the Competition. Team coaches are invited to provide a brief curriculum vitae detailing their academic attainments for the consideration and approval by the Organizing Committee.
14. The Secretary/Assistant Secretary(ies) will confirm the judge appointment with the team coaches by the mid of February 2012.
15. Appointed team coaches shall uphold the principles of fairness and confidentiality by exercising their role as judges, so that no participating team will be preferentially or unfairly treated.

Contact Person

Communication between each team and the Secretary/Assistant Secretary(ies) through any person other than the relevant contact person for that team is at the risk of the team.

16. Each contact person for a participating institution will be sent:
    1. The individual moot number assigned to each of its team;
    2. Information relating to accommodation and transport in Hong Kong; and
    3. Any other relevant material.
17. The contact person for each participating institution is responsible for:
    1. Distributing the information and material as mentioned in Rule 16 to each member of its team;
    2. Conveying enquiries or other correspondence for that team to the Secretary/Assistant Secretary(ies);
    3. Verifying the declaration of participating students in absence of team coach pursuant to Rule 8; and
    4. Distributing memorials of opposing teams to be met in general rounds as mentioned in Rule 42 to each member of its team.

Substitute members

18. A team will normally not be permitted to make any substitution of its mooters and researcher after they have been registered under Rule 10.
19. In exceptional circumstances and with the express prior approval of the Secretary/Assistant 
20. Secretary(ies), a team may for the oral hearings substitute a student registered as a member of its mooters with the student registered as its researcher. Any other substitution of registered members of a team shall be permitted only in extraordinary circumstances and with the express prior approval of the Secretary/Assistant Secretary(ies).
21. The eligibility of substitute members will be the same as other participating students pursuant to Rule 6.

 ²  The total number of eligible teams to participate in the 10th Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot (2012) shall be no more than 20.

 ³  The registration date for participation in the 10th Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot (2012) shall be 29th December 2011.