ILS Pune fetched its first gold this season at the NLIU Juris Corp National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition and leapt up the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 ladder from 17th to seventh place. RGNUL Patiala was runner-up with a strong shoulder-to-shoulder performance that secured its second MPL silver.
NLU Delhi and NLU Jodhpur lost out in the semi-finals of the competition, which was blogged live by NLIU Bhopal on the last weekend of October.
Shailesh Singh of Nalsar Hyderabad won the best speaker award, while best researcher was bagged by Neetu Ahlawat of Symbiosis Pune, giving the college its first points in the fourth MPL, which is sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills.
NLU Orissa won the best memorandum award.
The ILS winning team consisted of speakers Manaswi Agrawal, Malek Shipchandler and researcher Puneet Agrawal.
Agrawal was elated about the win and said that their victory was made possible by heavy preparation for 12 days. “The problem was really balanced such that we were confident in both the sides,” he said.
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“Though the judges grilled us we were never silenced by unnecessary and irrelevant questions. All our opponent teams were well prepared and the toughest was to crack the semis where we had a healthy match with NLU, Jodhpur. The team bonding we had indeed furnished an extra boosting in each round.”
Agrawal also commended NLIU Bhopal’s hospitality.
NLIU Bhopal wins MPL organiser points for this Tier 4 moot as it did not compete.
At 36 teams, fewer teams participated than last time. The preliminary rounds of the moot were followed by four knock-out rounds – the octa-final, quarter-final, semi-final and the final round.
Note: The 5th IICLAM moot, a tier 4 moot in the MPL, did not happen last weekend as was originally scheduled. The moot’s founding law firm Kaden Boriss has postponed the competition indefinitely, confirmed the India organiser NLU Delhi.
International law firm Herbert Smith is sponsoring the Mooting Premier League (MPL) and will contribute a prize pool of Rs 60,000 for the top three winning colleges.
Mooting Premier League 4 season standings
| Pos | Law school | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | Org | W | R/u | S/F | B S | B M/R | HM | Pts | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [[NLSIU Bangalore]] | 100 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 113 | [Rizvi Moot] (Semis); [Surana Trial Adv - South] (gold); [Manfred Lachs Space Moot World Rounds] (gold, best memo, best orator) | |||||||
| 2 | [[HNLU Raipur]] | 8 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 55 | Nani Palkhivala (Best Researcher); [Pro Bono] [Best team, Best speaker, Best researcher, Best memorial] | |||||
| 3 | [[NUJS Kolkata]] | 8 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 48 | [HMMCC (Best team)(Best speaker)] [Nani Palkhivala (runners up)][BR Sawhney (Best peaker)][SLCU Moot (Gold, Best speaker)] | |||||||
| 4 | [[Jindal Global Law School]] | 15 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 33 | [Nani Palkhivala] (Best Memorial)][Henry Dunant] (best researcher, semis); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (gold); | ||||||
| 5 | [[Faculty of Law, Jamia Milia Islamia University]] | 10 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | [Nani Palkhivala (Best speaker)][Henry Dunant (Best memo), [Surana Trial adv-North (Silver, best speaker)] | ||||||
| 6 | [[NLU Delhi]] | 20 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 27 | [HMMCC (Semis)][Henry Dunant] (gold); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (organiser); [NLIU Juris Corp] [Semis] | ||||||
| 7 | [[ILS Pune]] | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | [HMMCC] (Best researcher); [SLCU Moot] (silver); [NLIU Juris Corp] (gold) | |||||||
| 8 | [[Nalsar Hyderabad]] | 8 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23 | [HMMCC (Runners up)] [Rizvi Moot] (Best team); [B.R Sawhney Moot] (organisers); [NLIU Juris Corp] [Best Speaker]; | ||||||
| 9 | [[RGNUL Patiala]] | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 22 | [Nani Palkhivala] (Semis); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (semis); B. R Sawhney Moot (runners up); [NLIU Juris Corp] [Runnerup] (silver); | ||||||||
| 10 | [[GNLU Gandhinagar]] | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | [Nani Palkhivala] (best team); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (Best team) | ||||||||
| 10 | [[RMLNLU Lucknow]] | 20 | 1 | 2 | 20 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (gold, best researcher); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (best memo); | |||||||||
| 10 | [[NLU Jodhpur]] | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | [Henry Dunant] (silver); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (semis); [B.R Sawhney Moot] (semis) ; [NLIU Juris Corp] [Semis]; | |||||||
| 13 | [[GLC Mumbai]] | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | Henry Dunant (Best speaker) | ||||||||
| 14 | [[ULC Bangalore]] | 15 | 1 | 1 | 15 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (best memo); | |||||||||
| 15 | [[NLIU Bhopal]] | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | HMMCC (Semis)(Best memorial); Nani Palkhivala (semis); NLIU Juris Corp (Organiser) | |||||||
| 16 | [[Amity Law School Noida]] | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | [Rizvi Moot] (Semis, best speaker, best memorial) | ||||||||
| 16 | [[NLU Orissa]] | 8 | 5 | 2 | 13 | [B.R Sawhney Moot] (Best Memorial) ; [NLIU Juris Corp] [Best Memorial]; | |||||||||
| 18 | [[Department of Law, North-Eastern Hill University]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | [Henry Dunant] (best speaker); | ||||||||||
| 18 | [[KIIT School of Law]] | 10 | 1 | 10 | [B.R Sawhney Moot] (Winners) | ||||||||||
| 20 | [[CUSAT Kochi|School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi]] | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (best memo, semis) | |||||||||
| 20 | [[SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law]] | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [SLCU Moot] (best memo, semis); | |||||||||
| 20 | [[Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad|Nirma University]] | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | [Henry Dunant] (semis); [Pro Bono] [Semis]; | |||||||||
| 20 | [[Symbiosis, Pune]] | 8 | 1 | 8 | [NLIU Juris Corp] [Best Researcher] | ||||||||||
| 24 | [[School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur]] | 6 | 2 | 6 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (semis); [Pro Bono] [Semis] | ||||||||||
| 25 | [[NUALS Kochi]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (silver); | ||||||||||
| 25 | [[New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune]] | 5 | 1 | 5 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (best speaker); | ||||||||||
| 27 | [[Army Institute of Law, Mohali]] | 3 | 1 | 3 | [Surana Trial Adv - North] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 27 | [[Faculty of Law, IFHE Hyderabad]] | 3 | 1 | 3 | [SLCU Moot] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 27 | [[Campus Law Centre. Delhi]] | 3 | 1 | 3 | [B.R Sawhnhey Moot] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 30 | [[Christ Law College Bangalore|School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore]] | 1 | 1 | [SLCU Moot] (organiser); | |||||||||||
| 30 | [[Rizvi Law College]] | 1 | 1 | 1 | Rizvi Moot (organisers) | ||||||||||
| 30 | [[SOEL Chennai]] | 1 | 1 | 1 | Pro Bono (organisers) |
For more information please refer to the [[MPL 3 rulebook]].
Comments
A speaker from GNLU got an Honourable Mention at FDI Moot. Here's the proof: http://fdimoot.org/2012/
Do we get 3 points for that?
Thanks!
And congrats to the ILS Team!
I am sure they would have performed brilliantly in the oral rounds too although due to some powers beyond their control they could not go for the oral rounds.
Points for that?
http://fdimoot.org/2012/
And for the record, one or two commenters complaining over and over again about the non-inclusion of their own moot will not warrant inclusion necessarily.
And including a moot after it has taken place is potentially risky, since it would effectively equate to giving certain colleges a bump in the rankings. From that perspective it is preferable to include it in the following year's MPL, if the standard of competition has been established.
Best wishes,
Kian