KIIT Bhubaneshwar and NLU Orissa are leading twelve law schools that have opened their Mooting Premiere League (MPL) season 5 accounts with wins and citations in the Henry Dunant India rounds, the Surana Information Technology (IT) moot and the Bar Council of India (BCI) moot.
Bhubaneshwar shot to the top with 40 points from the tier 3 BCI moot. Orissa won the best team and best memorial citations at the tier 4 Surana IT moot amassing 23 points and marginally trumping the Tier 3 Elite Class Henry Dunant winner NLU Jodhpur in overall points.
Aishvary Vikram, Navneet Sahay and Nitesh Ranjan made up the winning team from KIIT. Orissa speakers Anshu Bansal and Parul Pareek and researcher Nidhi Jaiswal won Surana. NLU Jodhpur’s speakers Prakhar Bhardwaj and Priyadarshini Rao and researcher Arundhati Venkatraman were the winners of Dunant.
Rao, who argued on Dunant’s compromis which had a mix of international humanitarian law and human rights law, said: “The usual pattern of the moot has two [mooters defending] two charges [in all] – one on crimes against humanity and the other is a war crime. This time two persons were facing four charges in the same amount of time and memorial space, and there were 54 teams. So it was very challenging.”
“There was some ambiguity in interpreting one of the charges so there was a lot of learning in seeing how different colleges argued those charges,” she added.
The season opening rankings from Dunant, BCI and Surana are depicted in the table below. NLU Delhi and Seedling School are tied at sixth place while GLC Mumbai and Nuals Kochi are tied at eighth place in the MPL sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills.
MPL 4 winner NLSIU Bangalore currently sits third from the bottom rank.
Note: We are currently finalising MPL 5 details, including the list of moots that should be part of the MPL 5. Please email with any particular requests or suggestions.
At a glance
| Law School | Award | Score |
|---|---|---|
| NLU Jodhpur | Henry Dunant (Best team) T3 | 20 |
| JGLS Sonepat | Henry Dunant (Runners up) T3 | 10 |
| NLU Delhi | Henry Dunant (Best memorial) T3 | 10 |
| NLSIU Bangalore – Kaustav Shah | Henry Dunant (Best advocate) T3 | 10 |
| Nuals Kochi – Mohammed Kamran | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) T3 | 10 |
| GLC Mumbai – Kratika Chaturvedi | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) T3 | 10 |
| NLU Orissa | Surana IT (Best team) T4 + Surana IT (Best memorial) T4 | 15 + 8 = 23 |
| RGNUL Patiala | Surana IT (Runners up) T4 | 8 |
| GNLU Gandhinagar | Surana IT (Best advocate) T4 | 8 |
| KIIT University Bhubaneshwar; Aishvary Vikram | BCI moot (Best team) T3 + BCI moot (Best mooter – male) + BCI moot (Best memorial) | 20 + 10 + 10 = 40 |
| NLIU Bhopal; Aparna Raturi | BCI moot (Runners up) T3 + BCI moot (Best mooter – female) | 10 + 10 = 20 |
| Seedling School of Law & Governance Jaipur | BCI moot (Best memorial) T3 | 10 |
MPL 5 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 | KIIT Bhubaneshwar | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 40 | BCI moot (Best team) + BCI moot (Best mooter – male) + BCI moot (Best memorial) | ||||||||
| 2 | NLU Orissa | 23 | 1 | 1 | 23 | Surana IT (Best team) + Surana IT (Best memorial) | |||||||||
| 3 | NLU Jodhpur | 20 | 1 | 20 | Henry Dunant (Best team) | ||||||||||
| 4 | NLIU Bhopal | 20 | 1 | 1 | 20 | BCI moot (Runners up) + BCI moot (Best mooter – female) | |||||||||
| 5 | JGLS Sonepat | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (Runners up) | ||||||||||
| 6 | NLU Delhi | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (Best memorial) | ||||||||||
| 6 | Seedling School of Law & Governance | 10 | 1 | 10 | BCI moot (Best memorial | ||||||||||
| 7 | NLSIU Bangalore | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (Best advocate) | ||||||||||
| 8 | Nuals Kochi | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) | ||||||||||
| 8 | GLC Mumbai | 10 | 1 | 10 | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) | ||||||||||
| 9 | RGNUL Patiala | 8 | 1 | 8 | Surana IT (Runners up) | ||||||||||
| 10 | GNLU Gandhinagar | 8 | 1 | 8 | Surana IT (Best advocate) |
Comments
NALSAR has over the last year or two lost some of its best mooters, those who largely propelled them to top spots in MPL-I & MPL-II.
A phase of rebuilding is underway and though we expect (some) decent results from the present senior batches there wouldn't be much to cheer for in the short term.
However, you'll see us back challenging for the honours in a couple of years time. Feel free to make jibes till then.
And yeah, welcome back, MPL!
Moreover Dunant is such a competition when more than 70 teams participate so the qauter finalists should also get points and more points should be awarded to the dunant's winner runnerup and semi finalists.
1. Gurucharan Tulsi NALSAR criminal Law Moot
2. B. Krishna IPR moot
3. RGNUL Consti-criminal Moot
Apart from that, some moots should be graded up
1. NLUJ Antitrust should be moved to Tier 4
2. KK Luthra to tier 3
Add the following points in NLUJ's name whenever you have the time.
1. Raj Anand - Finalist + Best Memo
2. Best Team - FDI regional Rounds
3. Best Memo - Surana Trial Advocacy.
We also won the Hong Kong ADR Moot Court Competition, 2013.
It had one of the largest participating number of teams. 45 teams participated and the problem was drafted by Prof. Shamnad Basheer!
Thank you for your comment.
NLU-O is a matter of style, in which we have to remain consistent throughout the website, so far as the term used is not technically wrong.
Could you please clarify what you mean by: "Also you have written that Orissa won and Orissa speakers".
Best wishes,
Prachi
Thank you for the prompt reply.
To every institute the city name is added and not the State name. Because a body corporate must always carry the address for service. So, mentioning the city name is necessary. State name may form part of the name of the University when the legislature has expressly included it. GNLU, RGNUL Punjab, NLUO etc. are some of the examples. Even after including the state name name of the city must find place to give address for service.
Please compare NLU-O with the Universities mentioned in your own list, KIIT to GNLU. Every abbreviated name has the city name. Except NLUO.
RGNUL, Patiala is another example where the University name is Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala. You have abbreviated RGNUL, Patiala. I request you to do so for NLUO also. NLUO, Cuttack is the correct abbreviation.
You may cross check with the Act where the name of the University is "Natioanal Law University Odisha" is mentioned. Original Act will use "Orissa". Now Act of parliament for the change of spelling to Odisha has been notified. So it is Odisha and not Orissa. Odisha Act IV of 2008 also expressly states Cuttack to be the seat of the University.
I refer to the second and third paras. of the write up where you have written that "Orissa won best team and best memorandum citations" and "Orissa speakers Anshu Bansal ...". Should you Orissa in those sentences? Or is that your style of writing?
In my opinion it must be 'NLUO won' and 'NLUO speakers'. And in heading of the write up you should remove the hyphen.
Thank you for your comment.
Please check this latest round up of MPL 5 moots and scores so far where we have included NLU Delhi's Lachs score and caught up with all the moots that have happened so far: http://www.legallyindia.com/201310034018/Mooting/nlu-d-leads-mpl-5-table-after-lachs-as-nliu-gnlu-win-raj-anand-christ
As far as FDI regional rounds are concerned, I don't find them in our rule book. DO you?
Best wishes,
Prachi