First ever Law Debate held in BUP
The Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) and BUP Law and Moot Court Club (BUP-LMCC) jointly organised its very first Law Debate on 4th of November 2018, Sunday on the theme “A Legally Enforceable Right to Minimum Standard of Living”. The Debate was organised with a view to equipping the young law students with the argumentative skills, sophisticated legal knowledge and leadership abilities, so that they can fully be able to take leadership role in future. In the programme, around 200 law students of different semesters were present.
At the very beginning, Lt. Col. (retd) Siraj Uddin Ahmed, Chairman, Department of Law, delivered the welcome speech to the programme. He urged the law students to attain theoretical knowledge as well as experience law and its application in their daily lives. To him, debates, dialogues and discussions are some of the ways to experiment laws in order to be prepared for professional career in future.
The Parliamentary form of debate was maintained in this competition where the law students performed the roles of Government and Opposition. The Government team emerged as the champion team while the best debutant trophy was secured by Fahmin Chowdhury Tajim from the Opposition team.
The performance of the competitors was adjudicated by Dr. Syed Sarfaraj Hamid, Dean, Faculty of Law, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT); and Dr. Fahmida Haque, Chairman, Department of English, BUP.
Brig. Gen. Md. Siddiqul Alam Sikder was present in the completion as the chief guest. In his concluding speech, he admired the performances of the participants and thanked BUP-LMCC for organising such an event. He also thanked the adjudicators for the useful feedback for the students. After his concluding speech, the prize giving ceremony was held.
The event was covered by Sheikh Mustavi Hasan, Student of Law, BUP.
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