Aim

• To provide a platform for Hong Kong students to develop skills in public speaking, critical thinking, collaboration, and confidence through mock trial debating.

• Mock trial is an activity that lets students experience the excitement of the justice system. This highly competitive debate format places students in the roles of lawyers and witnesses, during which they are required to debate a fiction case by applying real legal rules.

• Students are judged based on their ability to present evidence, speak with authority, debate, and creatively portray witnesses.

• Since its establishment in 2014, HKISMTC has become one of the largest inter-school mock trial competitions for HK secondary school students. Annually more than 20 school teams comprised of over 200 participants from around the city compete in a two-day competition.

• ACO together with competition sponsors have awarded the winning team of the annual HKISMTC an opportunity to compete against the best teams in the world at the Empire Mock Trial Championship in the U.S.