HNLU beats NLU-J in NLIU-Juris Corp Moot; Nalsar now tops standings after best-speaker award

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[[HNLU Raipur]] defeated [[NLU Jodhpur]] in the finals of the first edition of [[NLIU Juris Corp Moot Court Competition]], taking HNLU to joint 5th place in [[MPL 2 Season Standings|MPL Season 2]], whereas last season’s number four NLU Jodhpur has moved to joint 19th spot.

[[RGNUL Patiala]] and [[CNLU Patna]] were the two semi-finalists. CNLU also won the best-memorandum award. While RGNUL moved to 14th spot, CLNU became 26th college to enter the MPL Standings.

Divij Kishore from [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] earned his college crucial 5 points by winning the best-speaker award at this tier 5 moot. With a total of 46 points, Nalsar now leads the MPL standings. [[NLIU Bhopal]] is at close second spot with 44 points.

NLIU MCA Convenor Shantanu Tyagi said that the competition was one of its own kind, with 22 teams participating, 29 judges to judge the preliminary rounds alone and another 9 judges to judge the Quarter and Semi Finals. The Finals were judged by a bench comprising of Hon’ble Mr. Justice Deepak Verma, Judge, Supreme Court of India, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Satish C. Sharma, Judge, Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court and Mr. H. Jayesh, Founder Partner, Juris Corp, advocates & solicitors, Mumbai, he said. Participants from 22 colleges came as strangers but left as friends, he added.

[[MPL 2 Season Standings]]

PosLaw schoolPtsDetails
1Nalsar Hyderabad46[NLIU Juris Corp] (Best Speaker); Stetson South India (Winner), Nani Palkhiwala (Winners), Surana Int\‘l Minority (Semifinalist); Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Seminfinalist)
2NLIU Bhopal44HNLU Moot {Semi-finalist) Nani Palkhiwala (Best Researcher), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Winners, Best Speaker), Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (semi-finalist)
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 Raipur30[NLIU Juris Corp] (Winner); Henry Dunant (Winners)
5SOEL Chennai30[Commonwealth India Rounds] (Runners up, Best Speaker); Surana Int\‘l Minority (Winners), Surana Tiral Advocacy South (Runners up, Best Speaker)
7NUJS Kolkata28[Commonwealth India Rounds] (Winners; Best Memo); Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Best Memo, Best Speaker, Semi-finalist)
8NLSIU Bangalore23Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Nani Palkhiwala (Best Speaker), Rizvi Moot (Winners)
9Campus Law Centre Delhi20HNLU Moot (Runners up, Best Memorandum) Nalsar B.R. Sawhny Moot (Winner)
10Army Institute of Law, Mohali19Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Int\‘l Minority(Best Memo), Rizvi Moot (runner-up, best memo)
11Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad15Henry Dunant (Semifinalist, Best Speaker)
11ILS Pune15Stetson South India (Semi-finalist), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Winners)
11Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University15FDI Moot (Semi-finalist; 2 Honourable Mentions); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist), Rizvi Moot (semifinalist)
14UILS Chandigarh13Nani Palkhiwala (Runners Up), Surana Trial Advocacy South (Best Memo)
14GNLU Gandhinagar13[Commonwealth India Rounds] (Semi finalists); John Marshall (Winner, Ambassador Round), Nani Palkhiwala (Semifinalist), Surana Trial Advocacy North (Semifinalist)
14RGNUL Patiala13[NLIU Juris Corp] (Semi-finalist); Surana Trial Advocacy North (Runners up), Rizvi Moot (best speaker)
17Bishop Cottons Women’s Christian Law School, Bangalore10Stetson South India (Best Speaker)
17RMNLU Lucknow10Henry Dunant (Best Researcher)
19Government Law College, Mumbai8Nani Palkhiwala (Best Memo)
19CNLU Patna8[NLIU Juris Corp] (Semi-finalist; Best-Memorandum)
19NLU Jodhpur8[NLIU Juris Corp] (Runner-up); Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney (The Sarah Derrington Encouragement Award)*
22Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur5Surana Int\‘l Minority (Best Speaker)
23Amity Law School3[Commonwealth India Rounds] (Semi finalists)
23CUSAT Kochi3Surana Int\‘l Minority(Semifinalist)
23Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT, Kharagpur 3HNLU Moot (Semi finalist)
23New 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 1 Dec 2010, 00:45
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Congratulations to the winning team !!!!!

NUJS Student
Anonymous guest 1 Dec 2010, 01:34
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go NALSAR!

kick butt in this years MPL too.
Anonymous guest 1 Dec 2010, 07:58
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Hi, Kindly update the results for the Stetson North Rounds 2011
Anonymous guest 1 Dec 2010, 16:56
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What happened to RMNLU? Both CNLU & RGNUL were looking there. Looks like the mooting is just following placements at Lucknow.
Anonymous guest 1 Dec 2010, 23:42
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@#2... fyi nliu still tops... even b4 nalsar won the best speaker at juris corp, nliu were semi finalists n won the 2nd best memo at stetson north... y isnt LI updating, and why can't we comment on LI?
Anonymous guest 2 Dec 2010, 00:01
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HNLU won two more Moots, the Henry Dunant Asia Rounds and the South Africa moot.
Anonymous guest 2 Dec 2010, 04:12
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@ 5 dude just w8 for jessup..... will c where is nliu after april end.
Anonymous guest 2 Dec 2010, 05:11
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@7... yeah.. like they've never entered Jessup Internationals before... are you new to all this ?
Anonymous guest 3 Dec 2010, 14:40
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@6

HNLU Hasnt "won" the south africa moot- the world human rights moot at south africa is on 8th-9th dec, 2010 and HNLU is one of the three Asian teams selected to participate in the competition after a Memorial screening round. The other two teams from the ASIA region are both from the Philippines
Anonymous guest 4 Dec 2010, 03:38
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what about symbiosis? what happened to them? where are they?
Anonymous guest 6 Dec 2010, 00:12
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HNLU is # 5
Anonymous guest 6 Dec 2010, 16:25
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Symbiosis is stuck in Pune raves!!!