Delhi CLC beats NUALS to win B R Sawhny Moot; NLU Delhi, NUJS semi-finalists

Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2
Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2
[[Campus Law Centre Delhi University]] emerged victorious in the 4th [[Nalsar Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Moot Court Competition]] with [[Nuals Cochi]] finishing as runner-up and [[NUJS Kolkata]] bagging the most points of any team in this competition and its MPL debut.

[[NLU Delhi]] and [[NUJS Kolkata]] were the semi-finalists, while [[NUJS Kolkata]] bagged both the best memorandum award and its speaker Vivek Menon brought home the best speaker award.

The moot was organised by [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] and was sponsored by the Bodh Raj Sawhny Memorial Trust. This year’s edition saw participation from 25 teams, which is the highest turn out for the moot since its inception, said the Nalsar Moot Court Committee convenor Bhargavi Kannan.

Gaining 10 points from the event, CLC Delhi University jumped to joint 12th position in the [[MPL2 rankings]]. Nuals Cochi and NLU Delhi earned 5 and 3 points respectively, moving to joint 7th and joint 9th positions.

The moot marked the entry of NUJS Kolkata in the [[MPL2 Points Table]], earned a total of 13 points at this MPL Tier 5 event moving to ninth spot. The college came third in the [[MPL 2009-10]].

Correction: The original copy erroneously referred to LC1 Delhi University rather than CLC.

[[MPL 2 season standings|Mooting Premier League season 2 standings]]

PosLaw schoolWR/uS/FB SB M/RHMPts
1[[NLIU Bhopal]]121241
2[[Nalsar Hyderabad]]1221
3[[HNLU Raipur]]120
3[[SOEL Chennai]]11120
5[[Army Institute of Law, Mohali]]11219
6[[NLSIU Bangalore]]1118
7[[NUALS Kochi]]2115
7[[Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad]]1115
9[[NLU Delhi]]1113
9[[NUJS Kolkata]]11113
9[[UILS Chandigarh]]1113
12[[Campus Law Centre Delhi]]110
12[[ILS Pune]]110
12[[RGNUL Patiala]]1110
12[[RMNLU Lucknow]]110
16[[Government Law College, Mumbai]]18
17[[GNLU Gandhinagar]]27
18[[Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University]]116
19[[Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur]]15
20[[NLU Jodhpur]]13
20[[New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune]]13
20[[CUSAT Kochi]]13

Legend: Pos (Position); W (Wins); R/u (Runner-ups); S/F- Semifinalist; B S(Best speaker); B M/R (Best Memorial/Researcher); HM (Honorable Mention & other equivalent awards); Pts (Points)

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Comments

Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 02:02
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Where is NLU Jodhpur? What happened to their fabulous mooting culture?
Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 02:51
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Well..All I can say that this Mooting league will bring outright the truth of so called Elite Law Schools and the one that actually deserve to eat the pie. Will be Fun.
Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 14:31
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please correct the info its campus law centre(clc) which won the moot and not lc 1
Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 15:20
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we have detailed info in this article about all the national law schools which jumped how many points and lost how many digits excepting the correct info as to who is the winner ..kudos
sanjay.khan.nagra 13 Oct 2010, 16:30
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We regret the unintentional error in the story. It was indeed Campus Law Centre.
Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 17:08
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Go Menon! Go Sanki!
Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 19:54
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Jodhpur is busy with their NH-65 thingie. After they came to Legala & Strawberry Fields at NLS, they "mooted" the idea of NH-65 as their next step in world domination :D
anandpmishra 13 Oct 2010, 20:04
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Though mooting has never been a preferred campus activity at CLC where majority prepare for IAS & judicial services exam during LL.B. alongwith studies and very few even think about things like mooting & debate, it comes as a pleasant surprise to see CLC-ians entering mooting and winning the top slot defeating mooters from many top NLUs....
Congratulations to every member of the team. Do keep it up, may we witness a brilliant mooting tradition at CLC too...
Anonymous guest 13 Oct 2010, 23:25
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The season has just begun. NLU Jodhpur will bounce back in once the other moots start. They didn't even participate in Surana Trial and Rizvi out of the moots that are already over.
Anonymous guest 14 Oct 2010, 02:05
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Further, to what you have said, I think CLC is grossly underestimated. It is generally regarded as a parking ground, while people wait to take the Civil Service Exams, GMAT, etc or are simple waiting for wedding bells to ring. It's a pity really coz' it had a very decent faculty, altho' I don't know the current position.

Sadly, I myself hardly attended a dozen classes in three years and later when I finally decided law was to be my career and went to the LSE to do an LLM, I was pleasantly surprised that one of the CLC facutly members was heavily quoted in several prestigious legal journals. (I later checked again and realised the professor had done a PhD from Harvard!)

The Lawyer magazine was once interviewing a leading barrister and he was asked who had the biggest influence on his legal career, and promptly he took the name of a professor who had taught him for some time in Oxford. The don later taught at CLC and I believe even became the PIC/Dean.
Anonymous guest 14 Oct 2010, 04:36
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Go Menon... u r a phenoMENON ...
Anonymous guest 14 Oct 2010, 06:53
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Great stuff Menon, Talwar and Sanki.....u guys are awesome..
Anonymous guest 14 Oct 2010, 08:25
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Delhi University (DU) is mistakenly under-rated when compared to the new NLUs. The faculty is extremely top-notch as can be attested by those few that actually bother to attend classes/read up the faculty profiles. It also has a cheap tuition fee as compared to other law schools. These students do not pay the fee in six semesters what other NLUs charge in a single semester. Also, there are three centers (CLC, LC1 and LC2) and the professors keep rotating between the three faculties. DU does provide great education for the price it charges.
Anonymous guest 14 Oct 2010, 17:40
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I fully agree. In the late nineties you could do your LLB for a grand sum of Rs 10,000/- (3 years, including tuition, exam fees, etc). And BTW we had 30 papers in three years (5 in 6 semesters). The CLC I believe had pioneered the "Case Law" method of teaching - these handouts were available for a song.

Apart from the faculty, the CLC had some extremely smart students. Many of them, I recall got the top ranks in the IAS, and several managed to get prestigious scholarships like Rhodes, Inlaks etc.

The impoverished library, though no great shakes by any means, still managed to stock the most popular textbooks. The grand auditorium building I remember was built entirely through donations from the legal fraternity (and the enthusiasm of the professor in charge). Yes, lawyers actually contributed! And handsomely.
Anonymous guest 14 Oct 2010, 18:30
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NUJS is doing very well in its effort to emulate the IPL team from their city...

on another note, DU may have been a good college 30 years ago, but it sucks now. and no one tales the sawhny moot seriously anyway
Anonymous guest 15 Oct 2010, 23:49
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Any moot is a moot and it requires hard work and effort hence # 15 you need to think before you comment. And also that I might agree with the fact that the NLU'S are doing farely well but does that mean that all the other non national law schoolS "SUCKCS"??!!
Anonymous guest 15 Oct 2010, 23:52
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#15 And if you dont think that its a good enough moot then what makes your college participate?? ..common its being lame!!
Anonymous guest 16 Oct 2010, 15:44
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@15, the comparison between nujs and KKR is a bit old and stale. Some frustrated chap had used this comment last year. You know what followed? In a week from the comment,NUJS won the World Finals of ELSA. So, watchout... we are just starting with the season.

and in fact yes... korbo, lorbo, jeetbo (and we will, unlike KKR)
Anonymous guest 16 Oct 2010, 17:17
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CLC is a good college. In fact, it is a premiere institution compared to the 900 something law schools in India. But CLC students trying to compare their college with NLUs on account of past glory is like NUJS saying that we should be on top of the MPL forever irrespective of our annual performances because we won Vienna in 2003, Hong Kong in 2005 and ELSA in 2010. Times change. Competition is intense. So, please try to understand and accept the facts than to raise unfounded arguments that even the arrogance of a Delhi-ite cannot justify.
Anonymous guest 16 Oct 2010, 17:56
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throw KKR out of IPL, throw NUJS out of MPL. two useless overrated teams.
Anonymous guest 16 Oct 2010, 22:34
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@20, facts?

hate to repeat. But - 2003: Vienna, 2005: Hong Kong, 2010: ELSA
The only team to have won NLS arbitration moot ever (all the three times that it was held)..

Overrated, huh? what college are you from? Harvard? Or National Law College of Utopia?

and why not? you could try throwing us out... but if you cant manage enough points to keep us out, then shut up and try doing something worthwhile
Anonymous guest 16 Oct 2010, 22:36
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i am from nujs. i would like all nujs bashers to reveal their college (if they are not ashamed of where they come from) and the mooting achievements of their colleges (achievements which are more valuable than winning ELSA, HK and Vienna) before they post their frustrated comments, just for the sake of fairness.
Anonymous guest 16 Oct 2010, 23:55
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@20, go for it. throw out NUJS, NALSAR, NLS and all colleges better than your own. there is an easy way. just ask your own moot teams to garner enough points to stop these biggies from figuring anywhere in the rankings. you could personally too...
Anonymous guest 18 Oct 2010, 04:12
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Talwar, hope you repeat the performance and even improve it in vienna...
Anonymous guest 11 Nov 2010, 11:26
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NUJS Kolkata got the best memorandum award in the 4th Nalsar Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Moot Court Competition. Here are the NUJS memos. We hope there will be a lot to learn from them. http://www.lawctopus.com/2010/11/nalsar-bodh-raj-sawhney-moot-best-memos/

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