ANNEXURE 7
Name of Society – Moot Court Society
Key Contact Person –
Name – Mohanakrishna, Asmita Singhvi
Email ID – mcs.jgls@jgu.edu.in
(primary contact point); 12jglsmohanakrishna@jgu.edu.in
; 13jgls-asinghvi@jgu.edu.in
Number – 09050627191 (Mohan), 08397056220 (Asmita)
Activities Conducted During the Semester –
Annual Junior Induction Moot
Annual Senior Induction Moot
Annual Intra-Jindal Cup
Annual Ranking Moot (for existing MCS members)
Workshop on Researching Skills
Workshop on Memorial Drafting Skills
Workshop on Oral Advocacy Skills
Intra-University Competitions –
The Moot Court Society organizes the Jindal Cup once a year. Applications are open to all students of the Law School, and the Best Speaker, Best Memorial,
Best Team and Best Speaker (Finals) of the Competition receive awards. In addition, the Society also inducts individual participants as researchers and/or speakers to the MCS on the basis of their performance and judges’ feedback.
Inter University Competitions –
I.
Moot Court Competitions in which JGLS emerged victorious:
All Haryana State Moot Competition, Rohtak (March 2011)
NLSIU Bangalore International Arbitration Competition (April 2011)
ULC Bangalore National Moot Court Competition (February 2012)
ELSA’s Moot Court Competition on World Trade Law (Asia Rounds; March
2012)
Surana and Surana Trial Advocacy Moot - North India Rounds (August
2012)
FYLC Ranka National Moot Court Competition (November 2012)
Nani Palkhiwala Moot Court Competition (October 2013)
Oxford Price Media Moot Court Competition (South Asia Rounds,
November 2013)
Oxford Price Media Moot Court Competition (World Round, April 2014)
NLSIU Bangalore International Arbitration Competition (April 2014)
3 rd National 'Tarka Sastra' Moot Court Competition (March 2014)
4 th K. R. Ramamani Memorial Taxation Moot Court Competition (2014)
5th M.S Ramaiah Memorial Moot Court Competition (2014)
II.
Moot Court Competitions in which JGLS was the finalists:
Army Institute of Law Moot Court Competition (2012)
Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition (2013) (National Round)
NLIU Juris Corp Moot Court Competition (2013)
Manikchand Pahade Law College’s XIV National Moot Court Competition
(2014)
RMLNLU Media Law Moot Court Competition (2014)
NUALS, Kochi Maritime Law Moot Court Competition (2014)
III.
Moot Court competitions in which JGLS won the Best Speaker Award:
Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition (September 2011)
(National Round)
Surana and Surana Trial Advocacy Moot - North India Rounds (August
2012)
NLU Jodhpur Anti-Trust Law Moot Court Competition (March 2013)
NLSIU Bangalore International Arbitration Competition (April 2014)
NUALS, Kochi Maritime Law Moot Court Competition (2014)
3 rd National ‘Tarka Sastra’ Moot Court Competition, School of Law, Sastra
University (2014)
Oxford Price Media Law Moot Court Competition (South Asia Rounds,
November 2014)
IV.
Moot Court Competitions in which JGLS won the Best Memorial
Award:
Gabrielle Marceau Award for the best complainant written submissions;
ELSA’s Moot Court Competition of World Trade Law (World Rounds; June
2012)
Nani Palkhiwala Tax Moot Court Competition (September 2012)
NHRC Moot Court Competition (March 2013)
Oxford Price Media Moot Court Competition (2013) (South Asia Round)
(Second Best Memorial)
3 rd National Moot Court Competition, School of Law, Sastra University
(March 2014)
4 th K.R. Ramani Memorial Taxation Moot Court Competition (March 2014)
4 th NLIU R.K. Tankha Memorial Moot Court Competition (March 2014)
V.
Moot Court Competitions in which the JGLS won the Best Researcher
Award:
Pro-bono Environmental Law, SOEL Chennai (2012)
Henry Dunant Moot Court Competition (September 2012) (National
Round)
3 rd National ‘Tarka Sastra’ Moot Court Competition, School of Law, Sastra
University (March 2014)
Key and Notable Achievements –
Overall Champions, Oxford Price Media Law Moot Court Competition,
2014 (South Asia Rounds), and Overall Champions, Oxford Price Media
Law Moot Court Competition (World Rounds, April 2014) organized by the
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the University of
Oxford.
Winners, Asia-Pacific Rounds in Indonesia (2012), ELSA’s Moot Court
Competition on World Trade Law and Semi-Finalists, World Rounds in
France (2012) The Moot is organized by the European Law Students’ Association
(ELSA) with rotating locations for its regional and world rounds.
Runner-up, in the National Rounds of the 13 th Henry Dunant Memorial
Moot Court Competition in September 2013. In 2012, the University Team finished as semi-finalists and a team member secured the “Best Researcher” award. In the 2011 edition of the same competition, a team member secured the “Best Advocate” award.
Qualified as one of the three teams to represent India at the International
Criminal Court Moot Court Competition hosted by The Grotius Centre for
International Legal Studies in The Hague in May 2014.
Overall Champions (April 2011, and April 2014), NLSIU’s International
Arbitration Competition Hosted by the Arbitration Society at National Law
School of India University, Bangalore. A member from the team also received the award of Best Speaker in the 2014 edition.
Overall Champions, Nani Palkhivala National Tax Moot Court Competition
(October 2013) hosted by the Moot Court Association of Government law
College. The Moot has the distinction of being India's first and has long been the only moot in the country that is exclusively based on Taxation Law.