BMC 2025

Businet Moot Court   *   Riga   *  Latvia
College of Business Administration

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Written round:
Starts on 5 Dec. 2025 
until 6 February 2026

Oral rounds:
22 - 27  March  2026
- Group stage: 23 -> 25 March 2026
- Knockout stage: 26 March 2026

 

The Businet Moot Court (BMC) competition
is divided in 2 rounds:
1 written round and 1 oral round

The written round

  • starts on 6 December 2024 with the publication of the case to be solved.
  • Teams that want to participate send in conclusions concerning the case published on this web page. The conclusion contains the viewpoints of the applicant and of the defendant.
  • During the written round teams can use all means and sources necessary to solve the case.
  • Conclusion must be sent in on Friday 6 February 2026, at the latest.

The oral round March 2026

  • Will take place in Alba-Iulia, Romania, from Sunday 22 until Friday 27 March 2026 and consists of 2 stages.
  • In the group stage, max 12 teams compete within 3 or 4 groups of each 4 teams.
  • Each group plays a round-robin tournament, in which each team is scheduled for pleadings against the other teams in that particular group.
  • The knockout stage is an elimination tournament in which teams of one group will battle teams from the other group(s) in one-off pleadings. This stage consists of pre-quarter-, quarter- and semi-finals.
  • The winners of both semi-finals will battle each other in the grand-final.

!!  BEWARE !!

Businet and 1st December University take no liability for any costs arising from force majeure measures that would occur during any of the BMC rounds.

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Participants are urged to comply with all
government prescriptions or regulations (travelling, lodging, vacines...),
to take the required precautions and to take out necessary or additional insurance.

 

Here you find the 2025-rules, the evaluation criteria and the case to be solved. Uopdated rules will be available afterr the November conference.

 

    Important

  • For organizational reasons 16 is the maximum number of teams allowed.
  • If more than 16 teams send in conclusions, the BMC administrator will select teams to the oral rounds, based on the quality of the send in conclusions.
  • Friday 6 February 2026: last day to send in Written conclusions
  • Monday 9 February 2026:
    - Announcement of selected teams
    - Start online registration: 
  • Friday 13 February 2026:
    - Last day to complete online registration
  • Monday 23 February 2026:
    - purchase order will be send to make payments before Monday 9 March 2026
    - invoice will be send later
  • Teams from non-Businet partner institutions, can participate if they contact the BMC administrator.
    (law.group.businet@gmail.com)

  • Each team MUST appoint a referee.

  • Minimum number of students per team is 3
    Maximum number of students per team is 6

 

Updated on 23 Mar 2025  -  Remarks or Information: N. Nijsten