GGSIU wins Stetson North to enter MPL; UILS bags 2nd ticket to Florida; NLIU regains top spot from Nalsar

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[[University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashta University, Delhi]] made its debut in the [[MPL 2]] by defeating [[UILS Chandigarh]] in the finals of the [[Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition North India Rounds]].

GGSIU is the 27th college to enter the [[MPL 2 season standings|MPL 2]].

With a 20 points from Stetson North, GGSIU stands at joint 11th position and UILS, with 23 points, moved to 9th position in the standings.

As semi-finalist with 5 points [[NLIU Bhopal]] reclaimed the top spot in the standings after temporarily being ousted from the top spot by [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] following the NLIU Juris Corp Moot. The other semi-finalist [[RGNUL Patiala]] moved into 7th position, also scoring 5 points. Pratika Shankar of RGNUL won his college another 10 points with the best speaker award.

[[Amity Law School IP University Delhi]] bagged the award for best memorandum and moved to joint 17th position.

S Ravichandran, Advocate & Head, Academic Initiatives, Surana & Surana International Attorneys, confirmed the results and said that the event began with paying homage to the martyrs of 26/11 by the dignitaries and all the team members by lighting candles and observing silence.

Both GGSIU and UILS will now represent India in the Stetson International Finals to be held from 17 - 20 March 2011 at Maryland University School of Law, Maryland.

Apologies for the delayed update on this moot, we were seeking final confirmation of one law school’s standing after this competition.

[[MPL 2 season standings]]

PosLaw schoolPtsDetails
1NLIU Bhopal49[Stetson North India] (Semi-finalist); HNLU Moot {Semi-finalist) Nani Palkhiwala (Best Researcher), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Winners, Best Speaker), Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (semi-finalist)
2Nalsar Hyderabad46NLIU Juris Corp (Best Speaker); Stetson South India (Winner), Nani Palkhiwala (Winners), Surana Int’l Minority (Semifinalist); Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Seminfinalist)
3NUALS Kochi35Stetson South India (Runner-up, Best Memo), Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Runner up) Surana Trial Advocacy North (Best Memo), Surana Int\‘l Minority (Runners up)
4NLU Delhi33HNLU Moot (Winner, Best Speaker, Best Researcher) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Semi finalist) Henry Dunant (Runners up)
5HNLU Raipur30NLIU Juris Corp (Winner); Henry Dunant (Winners)
5SOEL Chennai30Commonwealth India Rounds (Runners up, Best Speaker); Surana Int’l Minority (Winners), Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Runners up, Best Speaker)
7RGNUL Patiala28[Stetson North India] (Semi-finalist, Best Speaker); NLIU Juris Corp (Semi-finalist); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Runners up), Rizvi Moot (best speaker)
7NUJS Kolkata28Commonwealth India Rounds (Winners; Best Memo); Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Best Memo, Best Speaker, Semi-finalist)
9UILS Chandigarh23[Stetson North India] (Runner-up); Nani Palkhiwala (Runners Up), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Best Memo)
9NLSIU Bangalore23Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Nani Palkhiwala (Best Speaker), Rizvi Moot (Winners)
11University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi20[Stetson North India] (Winner)
11Campus Law Centre Delhi20HNLU Moot (Runners up, Best Memorandum) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Winner)
13Army Institute of Law, Mohali19Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Int\‘l Minority(Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (runner-up, best memo)
14Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad15Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Speaker)
14ILS Pune15Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Winners)
14Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University15FDI Moot (Semi-finalist; 2 Honourable Mentions); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist), Rizvi Moot (semifinalist)
17Amity Law School IP University Delhi13[Stetson North India] (Best Memorandum); Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists)
17GNLU Gandhinagar13Commonwealth India Rounds (Semi finalists); John Marshall (Winner, Ambassador Round), Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist)
19Bishop Cottons Women’s Christian Law School, Bangalore10Stetson South India (Best Speaker)
19RMNLU Lucknow10Henry Dunant (Best Researcher)
21Government Law College, Mumbai8Nani Palkhiwala (Best Memo)
21CNLU Patna8NLIU Juris Corp (Semi-finalist; Best-Memorandum)
21NLU Jodhpur8NLIU Juris Corp (Runner-up); Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney (The Sarah Derrington Encouragement Award)*
24Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur5Surana Int\‘l Minority (Best Speaker)
25CUSAT Kochi3Surana Int\‘l Minority(Semifinalist)
25Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT, Kharagpur 3HNLU Moot (Semi finalist)
25New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune3Surana Trial Advocacy South (Semifinalist)

Legend: T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 (total points won in each tier); 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) For more information please refer to the [[MPL 2 rulebook]].

Comments

Anonymous guest 4 Dec 2010, 02:45
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WE will be back!!!!
Congrats to GGSIU and UILS...
Great Going NLIU.

-NAlSAR Naxal
Anonymous guest 4 Dec 2010, 03:59
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hey... what happened to symbiosis? are they participating in moots or not? there name is not in the moot court MPL standings???
Anonymous guest 4 Dec 2010, 07:54
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I really, really hope international moot organisers recognise the complete incompetence of Surana with respect to judging, flagrant violations of international rules and just about everything else, and take away national rounds organisation from them. Currently, it's a complete disgrace. Campus Law Centre at Jessup last year, and Guru Gobind Singh at Stetson this year! Something is very seriously wrong if these are India's representatives at two of the biggest international moots.
Anonymous guest 4 Dec 2010, 17:42
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@4 ...

Jealous ?? They're doing something you couldn't do as a student of some NLS ? ;-)
Anonymous guest 4 Dec 2010, 23:31
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The tragedy in national law schools is that...mostly the best mooters don't participate after a point in these big moots....as the top firms in india...don't value moot performances when it comes to placements...all that is taken into consideration while placements is the CGPA....for students from non- nationals moots are a big thing...coz it gives them a platform to perform....the best firms don't even go to these law schools for placements... so the only way out for them is a good performance is these moots to highlight their talent...and hope for an off campus placement...anywayz good going.... ipu n uils....n pls guys nobody is jealous....we know who we are n where we stand....moot is not the only parameter....to judge who stands where...
student
gnlu
Anonymous guest 5 Dec 2010, 04:13
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Maybe there is a problem with judging...

New colleges that host these moots often invite judges with no experience at mooting or adjudication ...
Dubby 5 Dec 2010, 14:07
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Win a moot and it's : We are the greatest.

Don't win and it's :
1. Who cares.
2. Organisers are incompetent.
3. Judges have no experience.
4. The best mooters don't take part.

Time to grow up guys and learn that in law as in life it's "Win some, lose some" and learn to take the rough with the smooth.
Anonymous guest 5 Dec 2010, 19:35
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any idea what happened to GLC, Mumbai?
Anonymous guest 5 Dec 2010, 23:31
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GLC couldn't participate in Stetson this time, as University exams clashed with both the North and South Rounds...
Anonymous guest 6 Dec 2010, 22:27
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I think your comments are baseless and ridiculous. While I agree there have been issued with Suranas' organization, I don't think you have any locus to say that there are issues because CLC and GGSIPU made it. I mean only the NLUs dont have good mooters. They're all spread out in all law schools. Stop crying over spilt milk.

NLU Alumnus
Anonymous guest 14 Dec 2010, 04:21
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i'm surprised that nobody pointed this out till now, but the total point of NUJS add up to 36 and not 28:
15+8 = 23 for Commonwealth (winner, best memo)
5+5+3 = 13 for B.R. Sawhney(best speaker, best memo, semi-finalist)

Kindly make the correction.
Anonymous guest 14 Dec 2010, 22:58
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Hi Kian,

I understand NUJS and NLSIU fought out Oxford Monroe Price India finals yesterday. Please update the results. Also #11 has a point here, please look into it.
Anonymous guest 14 Dec 2010, 23:52
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@13 and 12

You NUJS people need to read your facts properly before making arguments. Just because you won the Oxford Moot does not mean you can show off on public forums.

Excluding the results of the Oxford Moot, NUJS has scored only 28 points and not 36 points:
1- Commonwealth INDIA Rounds Winners + Best Memo(This is a TIER 5 Moot) 10 + 5 = 15
2- B.R. Sawhney(best speaker, best memo, semi-finalist) 5+5+3 = 13

Now, 15 + 13 makes 28.

Noojies really need to read upon the moots and their respective tiers before commenting.
Anonymous guest 15 Dec 2010, 11:57
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Shruti Hiremath, Vinayak Mehrotra, Ashish Alexander and Payoshi Roy of NUJS won the national round of the Oxford Media Law moot and qualified to participate in the international round to be held in Oxford. They also won the second best memorial and best speaker in finals.

LI guys need to be quicker with the updation.
Anonymous guest 15 Dec 2010, 12:02
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So that will make 15 points (winning team) plus 8 points (best speaker); 23 points for NUJS. Correct me if I am wrong.
Anonymous guest 15 Dec 2010, 12:36
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@13 - i stand corrected. There was also a listing for Commonwealth under 'National Challenger' in Tier 4 ...but in any case, chill ! that sounded like a pissed off rebuttal ...i suggest u do it at the moot itself instead of here ...now thats whats going to win you some points!
Anonymous guest 16 Dec 2010, 15:45
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@15: There are no points for 'Best Speaker Final' .. only for the overall Best Speaker.. which I think was won by Jodhpur or NLS.. .