Moot Court Society

Law Centre 1

Faculty of Law

University of Delhi

ANNUAL REPORT (2018-2019)

Law Centre 1 strives to integrate the theoretical and practical aspects of law by conducting

various moot court and client counselling activities on a semester basis. The Moot Court

Committee is entrusted with the responsibility of facilitating and administering such exercises

through its rigorous qualifying mechanism involving two rounds of mooting.

The following are the Faculty Members of the Moot Court Society-

1. Dr. Anju Sinha (Teacher Convener)

2. Dr. P. B. Pankaja

3. Dr. P.R. Thulasidhass

4. Dr. P. R. Kalidhass

5. Dr. Susmitha P. Mallaya

6. Dr. Sanjivini Raina

7. Dr. Shaiwal Sathyarthi

8. Ms. Meena Kumari

9. Ms. Shivika Choudhary

10. Dr. Apeksha Kumari

11. Dr. Amrendra Kr. Ajit

The following are the Student Members of the Moot Court Society-

1. Aditya Maheshwari - Student Convenor

2. Prateek Sharma - Student Co-Convenor

3. Sanyam Aggarwal - Student Secretary

4. Versha Singh - Student Joint Secretary

5. Aparna Mehrotra-3rd

Year

6. Divyank Dutt Dwivedi-3rd

Year

7. Madhumita Chakraborty-3rd

Year

8. Maryam Naaz Quadri-3rd

Year

9. Aiman Hashmi- 2nd

Year

10. Anushiri Srivastava- 2nd

Year

11. Debby Jain - 2nd

Year

12. Deboleena Dutta- 2nd

Year

13. Hanshi Mishra- 2nd

Year

14. Nawal Mundhra- 2nd

Year

15. Neha Jain- 2nd

Year

16. Riya Sachdeva- 2nd

Year

17. Shilpi Jain- 2nd

Year

18. Srishty Jaura- 2nd

Year

19. Yash Kumar Mehrotra- 2nd

Year

20. Aman Akhtar- 1st Year

21. Ankit- 1st Year

22. Hanumant Singh- 1st Year

23. Harshit Dheer - 1st Year

24. Jyotika Singh - 1st Year

25. Kavita Vinayak- 1st Year

26. Kritika Goyal - 1st Year

27. Mansi Gosain - 1st Year

28. Sakshi Arora- 1st Year

29. Shivangi Bhardwaj - 1st Year

30. Shraddha Tripathi- 1st Year

31. Somya Sirohi- 1st Year

32. Sparsh Goel- 1st Year

33. Yash Aaditya - 1st Year

ORIENTATION PROGRAMME 2018-2019

On 16th

of September, 2018 the Moot Court Society of Law Centre-I organised an

orientation programme for the newly inducted first year students of the centre. The aim of

this orientation was not only to demonstrate the process of mooting to the new students but

also to reinforce the mooting culture of our institution. The Orientation Programme was

conducted in two sessions. The first session consisted of brief introduction on several aspects

of mooting such as research, drafting, oral arguments, court mannerisms etc. Also, a

presentation on Drafting was delivered by Dr. Sunanda Bharti.

The next session of Orientation Programme was The Mock Moot Session, where EC

members participated to demonstrate as to how the moot court proceedings are conducted.

The mock moot problem was based on 2017-18 induction problem i.e. Sexual Harassment at

Workplace.

There were two sides: Appellants and Respondents, represented by Aditya Maheshwari &

Deboleena Dutta and Prateek Sharma and Aiman Hashmi respectively. Faculty members

Mr. Thulasidhass, Ms Apeksha and ex-convenors of MCS Ms. Eshna and Mr. Asif Zamir,

who were invited as guests, served as judges for the mock moot court proceedings. The

whole mock moot court session was arranged in a manner to give an idea as to how and what

is expected of students during their induction process.

Madhumita Chakraborty, Convenor of MCS (2018-19) also explained about various

intrinsic points and formalities while giving speeches, such as, explaining the role of Court

Master, how to go about research. This was followed by Faculty Teachers and ex- convenors

speeches giving their useful insights about the mock moot debate and mooting in general.

Thereafter, students of LC-1 enthusiastically participated in open question-answer session.

At the end of the Orientation Programme, MCS released the moot proposition for Freshers’

Induction Moot 2018. The problem was framed by our Faculty members Dr. Apeksha

Kumari and Dr. Thulasidhass who was assisted by Maryam Naaz Quadri and Deboleena

Dutta, student members of the MCS. The moot problem for FIM 2018 was based on Dowry

Death.

WORKSHOPS

Title - Moot Court Society’s (LC-1) Workshop on Memorial Drafting and Oral

Pleadings

Date - 05.10.2018

Time - 10:30 to 12:15

Venue - Moot Court Hall, New Building, Umang Bhawan

The Moot Court Society, LC-1 (MCS) conducted the first workshop of the year on the

topic “Memorial Drafting and Oral Pleadings”. The workshop was conducted with the intent

of providing students of all the three years an insight into the art of memorial drafting and

introducing them to the skill of oral pleadings.

The workshop covered the following topics and areas -

1. Reading and analysing the moot problem.

2. Understanding the real question in issue/ the relevant issue of law.

3. What are good facts and bad facts to a particular case.

4. How to differentiate between good facts and bad facts and how to use them in the

memorial drafting.

5. How to research - Research Portals, Keywords, Reference Books, Citation Methods

and Structure to Research.

6. How to adopt a structured approach to Memorial Drafting- ILAC method and the

IRAC method.

7. Introduction of the issues in oral pleadings.

8. Court mannerism and etiquettes.

9. How to present arguments on Jurisdictions.

10. How to submit the prayer during the oral arguments.

11. Time management during oral arguments .

12. Rebuttal rounds.

13. Question/Answer round.

The workshop received an overwhelming response by the students. The workshop

introduced students to the other subtle areas of mooting such as- How to respond to questions

put forth by judges, how to argue on a case law- obiter vs ratio. The workshop was conducted

by the following student EC members of the society-

1. Madhumita Chakraborty

2. Aparna Mehrotra

3. Debby Jain

4. Aditya Maheshwari

5. Yash Mehrotra

6. Prateek Sharma

Title - Moot Court Society’s (LC-1) Workshop on ‘the Art of Memorial Drafting’

Date - 07.10.2018

Time - 10:30 to 12:15

Venue - Moot Court Hall, New Building, Umang Bhawan

The Moot Court Society, LC-1 (MCS), after witnessing the presence of several keen

students, conducted the second workshop on the topic “The Art of Memorial Drafting”. The

workshop was conducted with the objective of making the students well aware of all the

necessary steps involved in the preparation of memorial drafting.

The workshop covered the following topics and areas -

1. Analysis of the moot problem

2. Identifying the relevant issues

3. Research sources, methods and structure

4. Formatting styles and bluebook rules

5. Important elements of written submission, namely :

• Cover Page

• Table of Contents

• Index of Authorities

• List of Abbreviations

• Statement of Jurisdiction

• Statement of Facts

• Statement of Issues

• Summary of Arguments

• Arguments Advanced

• Prayer

The workshop was conducted successfully with the aim of helping students to prepare

well for the Induction Moot 2018 and to further increase their participation. Students were

provided with the opportunity to sort out their queries with experienced EC members who

devoted the latter half of the workshop solely for doubts session. The workshop was

conducted by the following Student EC members of the society-

1. Aditya Maheshwari

2. Anushiri Srivastava

3. Prateek Sharma

4. Riya Sachdeva

The MCS, LC-1, seeks to expand the horizon of mooting culture across our

prestigious institution.

FRESHERS’ INDUCTION MOOT - 2018

The Moot Court Society, LC-1(MCS), conducted the Freshers’ Induction Moot (FIM) on 25th

of October 2019, by giving a moot proposition based on Criminal Law. The FIM aimed at

inducting students who can work towards creating a mooting culture in the college. The

induction programme was greeted with an overwhelming response and approximately fifty

five students participated.

The induction process had two rounds in which students were selected on the basis of their

knowledge on the facts of the case, awareness of the law, and mooting skills.

There were two oral rounds, wherein the bench comprised of some alumni and practicing

advocates.

The students were adjudged on the following parameters:

1) Application of facts

2) Understanding of law and procedures

3) Authorities and precedents cited

4) Court etiquettes and mannerisms

5) Memorials

6) Advocacy skills, response to questions and articulations

The students faced the judges in both the rounds and after a session of almost 8 hours, 17

students from first year were inducted into the society and were made the Executive Council

members of the MCS.

The following students were inducted-

1. Hanumant Singh

2. Kavita Vinayak

3. Sanyam Aggarwal

4. Mansi Gosain

5. Yash Aditya

6. Aman Akhtar

7. Shraddha Tripathi

8. Versha Singh

9. Shivangi Bharadwaj

10. Sakshi Arora

11. Vedansh Pandey

12. Jyotika Singh

13. Sparsh Goel

14. Harshit Dheer

15. Ankit

16. Kritika Goyal

17. Somya Sirohi

Based on the scores given by the bench, awards were given to the best advocate and the best

memorial. Hanumant Singh was adjudged as the best advocate while Kavita Vinayak won

the award for the best memorial.

The Freshers’ Induction Moot was conducted by the student Executive Council

members of the MCS.

MOOT COURT SOCIETY ELECTIONS 2018

“All EC members are requested to compulsorily attend today’s meeting in room no. 232 at

3.30 pm..”.

This meeting was the first instance to afloat the process of the annual elections of the Moot

Court Society of Law Centre 1, which was addressed by all the teacher members of the

Society. In this meeting, the election pattern of the previous years was discussed at length,

while highlighting the alleged loopholes in it. Accordingly, suggestions were taken from the

members present at the meeting to address the ambiguities. Every year the newly inducted

EC members are fresh to this drill and hence a meeting is convened by the teachers

themselves to make each member aware of the upcoming process. It was at this stage itself

that all EC members were given strict instructions to abstain from campaigning, irrespective

of who all would finally be contesting for the available posts. This was done by Dr. P. R.

Thulasidhass himself to maintain the sanctity of the due process and that of the Society.

The elections of the Moot Court Society are known to be of great significance as it is for the

operational posts of one of the most sought after societies of the College. The process is

designed in a way to ensure that no dirty political agendas or personal dissentions affect it in

any way and that the posts are filled with deserving and responsible candidates. To maintain

good communication between the students and teachers at all times, an email ID was created

to form a thread which was used only for the process of elections. It was through this mode

that all further information was shared and the secrecy of the votes was maintained.

There were 4 positions to be filled- Convenor, Co-Convenor, Secretary and Joint Secretary.

Following the practice of previous years, the eligibility to contest for the abovementioned

positions were set. Only 1st year EC members could contest for the positions of Secretary and

Joint Secretary, while only 2nd

year EC members could contest for the positions of the

Convenor and Co-Convenor.

The nomination form was made available along with the timeline of the process which was as

follows:

Start of nomination: 10 p.m. (29 Nov. 2018)

End of filing nomination: 10 p.m. (1 Dec. 2018)

Finalizing candidates: 2 p.m. (2 Dec. 2018)

Voting window: 5 p.m.- 7 p.m. (2 Dec. 2018)

The nomination forms were submitted by each candidate with a write up stating their goals

and method of working which acted as the basis on which voting was done. This addition

made sure that each vote was casted only after being fully aware of the perceptions and

working style of each candidate for their respective positions. The nominations were

scrutinized and finalized by the professors themselves ensuring that the eligibility criterion

was met and there were no discrepancies.

The voting drill was conducted via email only, to make certain that the process remains a

closed affair, without outside influences while upholding the worth and secrecy of each vote.

Each EC member had to mail their votes Dr. P. R. Thulasidhass only, during the voting

window. It should also be noted here that the option of NOTA was made available for all

posts.

Nominations were filed, scrutinized and finalized strictly adhering to the given timeline. The

final list of candidates showed a two-man show for both the posts of the Convenor and Co-

Convenor. Yash Kumar Mehrotra was up against Aditya Maheshwari for the post of the

Convenor, while Prateek Sharma and Hanshi Mishra were for the post of Co-Convenor of the

Society. Six candidates appeared for the post of the Secretary including Sanyam Agarwal,

Shraddha Tripathi, Vedansh Pandey and Yash Aditya. Five for the post of Joint Secretary

including Mansi Gosain, Sakshi Arora and Versha Singh. Harshit Dheer and Sparsh Goel

were trying their luck on both posts.

The results were announced on 2 December 2018, a few hours after the closing of the voting

window. In a close call between the extremely deserving candidates for the highest post,

Aditya Maheshwari took a lead with 19 votes while Yash Kumar Mehrotra was only a step

behind with 14 votes (NOTA-1). At the Co-Convenor race, Prateek Sharma emerged with a

swooping landslide victory securing 24 votes as against Hanshi Mishra’s bag of 9 votes

(NOTA-1). While Sanyam Agarwal was just an inch ahead of Yash Aditya with 11 and 10

votes respectively; Versha Singh, single-handedly, cleared the margin with 17 votes to her

name.

This smooth and well knit process resulted in the replacement of the previous well

established post holders to the newly elected Council of the Moot Court Society as follows:

Convenor: From Madhumita Chakraborty to Aditya Maheshwari

Co-Convenor: From Aparna Mehrotra to Prateek Sharma

Secretary: From Prateek Sharma to Sanyam Agarwal

Joint Secretary: From Riya Sachdeva to Versha Singh

XV ALL DELHI NCR MOOT COURT COMPETITION

In this academic year, our college conducted XV Law Centre-1 All Delhi (NCR) Moot Court

Competition in March 2019.Report of the same is as follows:

Date of the competition:

The competition was held in three rounds i.e. Preliminary Rounds, Semi-Finals and Final.

This year competition was held on 16th

March 2019.

Moot Proposition:

The moot proposition was drafted by Ms. Aakriti Mathur, a practising advocate of Delhi

High Court.

Sending invitations for participation:

Invitations to participate in this competition were sent through e-mails and the notification

was published on Lawctopus as well. The notification consisted of Moot Proposition, Moot

schedule, rules and regulations, registration form and contact details of student office bearers

of the moot court society.

Participating Institutions

Total eight teams registered for this competition but one team expressed their inability to

participate at the last moment. Therefore, a dummy team was called up to even out the

number.

1. Amity Law School, Delhi

2. Bennett University, Greater Noida

3. Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Delhi

4. Chander Prabhu Jain College of Higher Studies, Delhi

5. Law Centre-1, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi

6. LLOYD Law College, Greater Noida

7. Maharja Agrasen College

8. (Dummy Team of LC-1)

Formation of committees of induction of student volunteers:

After receiving registration forms from the participating institutions, various committees of

the Executive Council members of the Moot Court Society were formed. Apart from the

Executive Council members, student volunteers were also inducted for the smooth

functioning of the competition.

Moot Court Competition Details

Inaugural Function:

The event was inaugurated by Prof. Ved Kumari, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of

Delhi, Hon’ble (J) Ms. Manju Goel (Retd. Judge, High Court of Delhi) and Shri Sanjay

Jain, Additional Solicitor General, Supreme Court of India).

Preliminary Round:

Preliminary Round was conducted in college building. For this round four court rooms were

arranged with two teams in each court room. A unique code was given to each team by

drawing of lots. Two judges were there in each court room, to judge the performance of

teams. The following were the judges for the Preliminary Rounds-

1. Adv. Rajni Anand

2. Adv. Hitesh Sachar

3. Adv. Kamlesh Kumar Mishra

4. Adv. Nusrat Hossain

5. Adv. Mohd. Unais

6. Adv. Paras Aneja

7. Adv. Hemraj Singh

8. Adv. Tom Joseph

Semi-Finals:

Four teams qualified for the Semi-Final round:

1. Bennett University, Greater Noida

2. Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Delhi

3. Chander Prabhu Jain College of Higher Studies, Delhi

4. Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida

The following were the judges for this round-

1. Mr. Ajit Sharma, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India

2. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India

3. Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dwivedi, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India

4. Mr. S. Wasim A. Quadri, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Final Round:

Two teams qualified for the final round:

1. Bennett University, Greater Noida

2. Chander Prabhu Jain College of Higher Studies, Delhi

Final round was conducted in Moot Court Hall Law Cenre 1. The judges for this round were

sitting High Court Judges (High Court of Delhi). Their names are as follows:

1. Hon’ble (J) Mr. Vibhu Bakhru

2. Hon’ble (J) Mr. Prateek Jalan

3. Hon’ble (J) Mr. Manoj Kumar Ohri

Valedictory Ceremony:

After the completion of the final round, valedictory ceremony commenced with an address by

Hon’ble (J) Mr. Vibhu Bakhru, Hon’ble (J) Mr. Prateek Jalan and Hon’ble (J) Mr. Manoj

Kumar Ohri.

Announcement of Result:

Winner: Bennett University, Greater Noida

Runners up: Chander Prabhu Jain College of Higher Studies, Delhi

Best Advocate: Alisha Luthra, Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi

Best Memorial: Lloyd Law College

Best Researcher: Astha Singh, Lloyd Law College

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE MOOT COURT SOCIETY 2019

Sr.

No.

Moot Competition

Name

Date Participants Awarded

1 Panjab University

Regional Centre’s Moot

Court Competition,

Ludhiana

8-10

February

Shraddha Tripathi

Kritika Goyal

Shivangi Bhardwaj

Quarter-Finalists

2 National Moot

Competition, KLE

College of Law,

Mumbai

1-3 March Sparsh Goel

Aman Akhtar

Somya Sirohi

Quarter-Finalists

(4th

place)

3 2nd

Surana and Surana

Tort Law Moot

Competition, Bangalore

8-10 March Sparsh Goel

Shraddha Tripathi

Sidhant Hans

3rd

Place overall

4 14th

All India Moot

Court Competition,

GLC Trivandrum

February

28- March 2

Shivankar Rao

Pawan Kumar

Runners up.

Best Male Advocate

adjudged to

Shivankar Rao

5 CLC-CCI National

Moot Court

Competition

15-16

March

Aiman Hashmi

Suryansh Baswan

Kritika Goyal

Runners Up and

Best Advocate to

Aiman Hashmi

6 4th National Law

Festival LOI FIESTA,

CP Jain

15-16

March

Vasuda Sharma

Sidharth Vashisht

Amit Jaiswal

Best Advocate to

Vasuda Sharma

7 6th

NLUO Bose &

Mitra & Company

Maritime Arbitration

Moot Competition

29-31

March

Madhumita

Chakraborty

Aparna Mehrotra

Aditya

Maheshwari

Semi Finalists

8 Anand Swaroop Gupta

National Moot

4-6 April Prateek Sharma

Yash Aditya

Third place over all

Competition, Sharda

University

Shivangi Bhardwaj

9 8th

RCL National Moot

Court Competition

30-31

March

Jyotika Singh

Aman Akhtar

Somya Sirohi

Winners

10 15th

Nani Palkivala

Memorial National Tax

Law Moot, 2019

05-07 April Neha Jain

Hanshi Mishra

Best Researcher

adjudged to Hanshi

Mishra.