School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) Chennai emerged as winners in the Surana & Surana International Minority Rights Moot Court Competition, defeating Nuals Kochi in the finals.
The moot was organised by Surana & Surana International Attorneys jointly with Maharashtra Cosmopolitan Education Society. The three-day event took place at A.K.K. New Law Academy Pune and saw participation from 33 teams across the country.
Nalsar Hyderabad and School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi were the semi-finalists in the competition. Deepankar Sharma from Seedling School of Law and Governance Jaipur won the award for the Best Speaker and Army Institute of Law Mohali grabbed the Best Memorandum award.
“The Moot was good and the students appreciated the quality of the judges,” said S. Ravichandran, head of academic initiatives at Surana & Surana. “Hon’ble Mr. Justice Cyriac Joseph of the Supreme Court was the Chief Guest for the Awards Ceremony.”
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MPL Moots: Version 2.03
We have made several changes to the and scoring criteria for MPL Season 2.
Version 2.03 of the MPL 2 list of moots is here! In all likelihood, this is going to be the final list. We have received numerous suggestions from readers and thank all of you for sharing your time and experience to help us finalise the list.
This version has incorporated only very few changes based on overall feedback. We have added three moots in the fifth tier and we have promoted Amity and IICLAM from Tier 5 to Tier 4. New moots in this list since version 2.02 are in bold and promoted moots are in italics.
We were asked to rethink the reasons of keeping Vis Hong Kong in the first tier. Also, many suggested that Stetson North and Red Cross Finals be promoted to the first tier. After much deliberation and feedback, we have decided not to make any changes in those tiers. The moots in the first Tier have international participation of at least more than 60 Teams (Vienna and Jessup have huge participation, Hong Kong has around 80 Teams and in Manfred Lachs, the winners of the three regional rounds compete in the Finals (each regional round sees participation from around 20 teams). On the other hand, one does not see such huge international participation in the Stetson World Finals or the Red Cross Moot. Hence, they have been retained in the second tier.
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Provisional list of moots to be included in MPL 2:
As you can see it’s bigger and hopefully even better than last year.
Tier 1 – Global Championships
These include the world finals most prestigious moot court competitions in the world and other world contests involving rigorous competition and wide participation- Manfred Lachs Space Moot, World Finals
- Philip C. Jessup, Washington
- Willem C. Vis (East), Hong Kong
- Willem C. Vis, Vienna
Tier 2 – World Class
These are the widely recognised international mooting events where a substantial number of Indian teams participate. These moots enjoy worldwide reputation among law students.
- ICC Trial Moot, The Hague
- Manfred Lachs Space Moot, Sydney rounds
- Red Cross Moot
- Stetson World Rounds
Tier 3 – Elite Class
These mooting events are the best of the elite national contests and some of them are the gateway to the Global Championships/World-class moots in the above tiers.
- Bar Council of India moot
- DM Harish Moot, GLC
- Henry Dunant Moot (India qualification rounds to Red Cross Moot)
- Oxford Media Law Moot
- Philip C. Jessup North India Rounds
- Philip C. Jessup South India Rounds
- Stetson North India Rounds
- Stetson South India Rounds
Tier 4 – National Challengers
Most of the contests in this Tier see participation from the top Indian Law Schools. A large number of them have also carved a niche for themselves in the national mooting scene. It also includes the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law, which is prestigious but only three Indian teams participated in last year’s Asian selection rounds.
- Commonwealth Moot
- ELSA WTO Moot
- GNLU International Moot
- ISRO Manfred Lachs funding rounds
- KK Luthra Criminal Law Moot, Delhi
- KLA Moot, Kerala
- MM Singhvi moot, NLU Jodhpur
- Nani Palkhiwala Tax Moot, GLC
- NLS International Arbitration
- NUJS Herbert Smith Corporate Moot
- Oxford Media Law Moot '''National Qualifiers'''
- Surana Corporate Moot
- Surana International Technology Moot
- Amity Moot Court Competition
- IICLAM Competition
Tier 5 - Best of the Rest
A varied tier that includes good domestic competitions that a range of Indian law schools take part, as well as prestigious international competitions that see only little Indian law school participation.
Tier 5: Domestic
- GH Raisoni Moot
- Justice Hidayatullah Memorial Moot
- NFCG-Nalsar Moot on Corporate Governance
- Nalsar BR Sawhney Moot
- NLU Antitrust Moot
- NLU Delhi All India Corporate Moot
- Pro Bono Enviro Moot SOEL Chennai
- Rizvi Moot
- SP Sathe Moot, ILS Pune
- Surana & Surana International Minority Rights Moot
- Surana Trial Advocacy Moot, North India round
- Surana Trial Advocacy Moot, South India round
- ULC Bangalore Moot
- NLIU Tankha Moot
Tier 5: International
These moots are internationally prestigious but only currently see limited participation, and are therefore counted on par with Tier 5 moots. This recognises that winning such a competition is noteworthy but that it would not be fair to disadvantage colleges that could not afford to attend these. For example, only three Indian teams participated in ELSA Asian rounds last year, ICC Mediation Paris saw only 4 Indian teams, Frankfurt International Arbitration only three Indian teams, Maritime International Arbitration in Sydney only two Indian teams, and Oxford IPR saw only two to three Indian teams last year.
- ELSA WTO Asian rounds
- ICC Moot, Paris
- Frankfurt International Arbitration Moot
- Maritime International Arbitration Moot, Sydney
- Oxford IPR Moot
- Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition, California
- John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, Chicago
NB: In future if new information comes to light and moots convincingly satisfy the criteria of a lower or higher tier, the moot may be included in that Tier at the absolute discretion of Legally India’s MPL team. New competitions may also be included but only if there are overwhelming reasons.
Scoring criteria
Category/Tiers | Tier 1 - Global Championships | Tier 2 - World Class | Tier 3 - Elite Class | Tier 4 - National Challengers | Tier 5 - Best of the Rest (Int’l & Domestic) |
Best team | 40 points | 30 points | 20 points | 15 points | 10 points |
Runners-up | 35 points | 25 points | 15 points | 10 points | 7 points |
Best Orator / Memorial / Researcher | 30 points each | 20 points each | 10 points each | 8 points each (correction) | 5 points each |
Semi finalists | 25 points | 15 points | 10 points | 4 points (correction) | 5 points |
Quarter Finalists | 20 points (except Lachs) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Octa Finalists | 15 points (except Lachs) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Honourable Mention/Other equivalent awards | 10 points | 5 points | N/A | N/A | Int’l Moots only: 3 points |
Stats | |||||
Number of competitions | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 21 |
Total possible points for winners | 160 | 120 | 160 | 225 | 210 |
Total points for runners-up | 140 | 100 | 120 | 150 | 147 |
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May be you could have a special mid tier for Hong Kong where the points are less than Jessup and Vienna but more than Red Cross and Stetson? Sorry, but someone winning Hong Kong and someone winning Vienna getting the same points just doesn't look right.
The Amity moot might have been around for quite a while. However, the format is the worst I have seen in any moot. There are a few reasons for this:
1. From around 32 teams, there is a direct semi final round. When you bring the number down so drastically, the level of merit in the competition takes a huge dip.
2. The shortlisting is based on aggregate scores. Thus, the rankings after the prelims are highly influenced by 'high scoring' and 'low scoring' courtrooms.
3. 2 times in the last 3 years, they have promised to have quarter finals (as per the invite). This was however altered to 'direct semis' after teams reached the competition. Teams choose moots based on factors such as subject matter, format etc. and have a right to see their legitimate expectations upheld, which the organisers don't care for.
From the points that I have mentioned above, it is clear that the best team does not win the competition. Such a badly organize competition with the poorest format (direct semis + based on aggregate scores) in the country does not deserve to be in Tier 4 in any case. The moot should be shifted down to Tier 5. The only reason I'm even suggesting that the moot be retained is because it has been happening for a few years now, else I think it deserves to be removed from the system altogether.
Regards
Bishen Jeswant
4th year, NLIU
The oxford media law moot court competition is happening in two phases this year, one is the India round which is being held in NLU Delhi from december 11-13 2010. The other is the international rounds which will be held in oxford in march 2011. The top 4 teams will qualify from the India round to the international round. The organizers have kept a cap of 30 teams for the India round.
As per the list of moots Oxford media law moot is rated as a tier three moot. I think that should be the international round and the India round should be a tier 4 moot.
Regards
Aditya
even though many asian teams are known to participate in hk, the competition is quite tough. if any indian team does anything significant in both vis hk and vis vienna, they ought to get good recognition under tier 1
Moving IICLAM and Amity to tier 4 is a good move. I guess the tiers are just around perfect right now. Get the tables coming along.
4th year NLIU
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