As a means to support and strengthen the value of the rule of law, fair trial and access to justice in the region, the Asia Virtual Mock CLE Evidence Exclusionary Hearing Workshops and Event is held each year for law students in the Asia region. BABSEACLE, along with its partners, has been organizing a number of virtual National CLE Mock Evidence Exclusionary Hearing Workshops in many countries, such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Asia Virtual Mock CLE Evidence Exclusionary Hearing Workshops and Event is a practical learning experience in which participants simulate a case involving an exclusionary hearing to exclude evidence in an upcoming trial. The case takes place in a hypothetical jurisdiction. It is not focused on the law of a particular country.

Participants will have the opportunity to practice legal, analytical, and advocacy skills in a simulated courtroom, while also experiencing courtroom procedure first-hand process and gaining an appreciation, fair trial, rule of law and legal ethics’ importance in the practice of law. The focus of the Asia Virtual Mock CLE Evidence Exclusionary Hearing Event is the development of these outcomes. As such, the Asia Virtual Mock CLE Evidence Exclusionary Hearing Event structure used for the event does not strictly adhere to any particular legal jurisdiction but has been modelled with the aim of facilitating the development of CLE outcomes in a practical setting.