The Home Team (Team A the Appellant) is responsible for a number of duties
a. They must provide a Judge (see Selection of Judges)
b. They must provide a suitable Moot Courtroom
c. They must ensure distribution of authorities and skeleton arguments to the court and to the moot judge.
d. The Home Team (A) takes responsibility to inform the Away Team (B) of the time, venue and date of the Moot.
e. The Home Team must provide a Clerk to the Court whose main responsibility is to keep time and inform the speakers and the Judge when time allotted to the Leaders and Juniors is at 5 minutes remaining and 1 minute remaining.
f. The Home Team must also ensure that both teams and the moot judge are provided with drinking water throughout the Moot and simple refreshments should be made available to the teams and to those attending the Moot.
g. The Home Team should ensure that 4 gowns are available to the team members to wear in the Moot Court.
h. Where possible the ICLR will endeavour to ensure that a team is not a Home Team on consecutive occasions.
I. In each Moot the Home Team (A) adopts the position of Appellant and the Away Team (B) adopts the position of the Respondent.
j. The Semi-Finals and Final will be organised by The ICLR and will be held in one of the Inns of Court and at The Law Society.
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