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Read the rules carefully.
Read the case carefully.
Browse the www.elmc.org website regularly.
It is a good idea to get a new e-mail address for the contact
with the OT during the Moot Court.
Check your e-mail regularly.
It may a good idea quite early in the process to split the
team up in a respondent team and an applicant team.
Ask former participants for advice - they might have some
useful information.
Many Universities sponsor the participation costs of their
students. If such is not your case, start sponsor contacts
early. Some suggestions regarding how to do it can be found
in tips section of this website.
Contact your European Law teachers: they may have experience
in the ELMC.
Read the case again and again - at least once every day.
Respect all ideas from all team members.
The use of deadlines can be very helpful during the work.
Do not put all your eggs in the same basket - save the document
on the hard drive of two different computers and on disks.
A backup can not hurt you.
Remember Murphy´s law: if it can go wrong, it will.
Read the rules again and again.
Before beginning the actual writing do yourselves a favour
and format your document in accordance with the rules, see
annex A to the rules.
Regularly save your work in different backup forms.
Have in mind that your written pleadings will most likely
be evaluated by judges not of your own nationality - SO KEEP
IT SIMPLE.
f there are two possible ways to understand a given question
choose the simple interpretation.
The easiest way to maximise the points for your written pleadings
is to minimise the amount of penalty points given, so keep
your written pleadings within the rules.
Meet the deadline for sending in the written pleadings.
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