DU wins BIAC Inter-University Arbitration Contest 2020

Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) has recently hosted its first-ever "BIAC Inter-University Arbitration Contest 2020" for giving students a scope to acquire practical knowledge of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and to give them the opportunity to arbitrate a case acting as Claimant and Respondent in a real-life scenario. 

This is the first arbitration contest in the history of Bangladesh, which was conducted using the digital platform due to Covid-19. 

This year, four universities of Bangladesh took part in this Contest. They were - the University of  Dhaka, the London College of Legal Studies (LCLS) South, Independent University, Bangladesh  (IUB) and Bhuiyan Academy. 

In the first round, Dhaka University attained its place in the final by competing against LCLS (South) and in the second round Bhuiyan Academy won against  IUB. 

In the final round of the contest, University of Dhaka acted as the Claimant team and the  Bhuiyan Academy as the Respondent team, they competed against each other and the  University of Dhaka won the Contest.  

As the whole contest was held through online platform, BIAC organised a separate event for  Trophy and Certificate Distribution to the Champion and Runner up teams. 

Justice Abdus  Salam Mamun, a well-known jurist and a former Judge of Supreme Court of Bangladesh was the chief guest of the event. 

Speaking on the occasion, he appreciated BIAC’s tremendous activities towards fostering ADR in Bangladesh and hoped that its programmes will continue to support stakeholders’ need in using methods of ADR in the country. 

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Executive Officer of BIAC Muhammad A (Rumee) Ali encouraged young learners to be acclimatised to the norms and practices of ADR before stepping in their career life in future. 

He also urged upon the students to become the ambassadors of  ADR and help parties to resolve commercial disputes through ADR in a cost-effective and time saving manner. 

He also declared that from now on, BIAC will organise Arbitration and Mediation contest every year.