Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat won the tenth edition of the Nani Palkhivala tax moot court competition at GLC Mumbai and RMLNLU Lucknow won the seventh Justice BR Sawhney moot at Nalsar Hyderabad this weekend.
JGLS has climbed to sixth place in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 5 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills with the win.
JGLS speaker Parvati Parkkot and Kartik Prasad and researcher Alaukik Singh picked up the trophy for the tier 4 tax moot on Saturday. Singh, who had broken into the quarter finals of the competition last year and had resolved to win it this year, was kicked about the Nishith Desai Associates internship and the lifetime membership to the All India Federation of Tax Practitioners, which the team won as prizes.
“The argument is the base upon which the opponents have their cases [and] if we break their cases they don’t have anything to say,” he said. “This has given me more incentive to work on tax. There are so many pending cases for transfer pricing and tax matters because people somehow find it very complex and that is probably why people don’t join tax [practices]. But the [moot court] judges said after our arguments that we should join [tax practices].”
Runner-up at Palkhivala - Symbiosis Pune - won internships with Economic Laws Practice (ELP). A total of 26 teams participated in the competition.
RMLNLU wins Sawhney, Jindal climbs further
RMLNLU speakers Mohit Negi and Himani Singh and researcher Mavis Cardoz won the tier 5 BR Sawhney constitutional law moot yesterday, besting NUJS Kolkata.
Negi, who was impressed with competitors GNLU Gandhinagar in the prelims, said: “The best part of the moot was that the judges knew how to grill us. Whatever we argued, they knew how to counter it. There was no blank bench.”
24 teams participated in the moot after knocking out 24 others in the memorial submission rounds.
JGLS also added 5 bonus points in the Mooting Premiere League (MPL) season 5 this weekend by breaking into the top four of the BR Sawhney moot. It climbed up five places in the league table, in which 22 law schools have now opened scoring accounts.
Eight MPL 5 moots have concluded this season so far.
Coming up – mooting bonanza weekend: Tier 4 – 3rd Amity Noida moot – 17-19 October; 4th NLIU Juris Corp corporate moot – 18-20 October
Tier 5 – 5th Rizvi national moot and 6th Hidayatullah national moot – 18-20 October
At a glance
| Law school | Award | Score |
| JGLS Sonepat | Nani Palkhivala (Best Team) T4 + BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) T5 | 15 + 3 = 18 |
| Sastra School of Law Thanjavur; Akshaya Sachin | Nani Palkhivala (Semi Finalist) T4 + Nani Palkhivala (Best Researcher) T4 | 4 + 8 = 12 |
| GLC Mumbai; Vipul Joshi | BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) T5 + BR Sawhney (Best Oralist) T5 + Nani Palkhivala (Organiser) T4 | 3 + 5 +2 = 10 |
| RMLNLU Lucknow | BR Sawhney (Best Team) T5 | 10 |
| Symbiosis Pune | Nani Palkhivala (Runners Up) T4 | 8 |
| Law Centre – I , Delhi University | Nani Palkhivala (Best Memorial) T4 | 8 |
| NLUO, Cuttack: Preeti Dash | Nani Palkhivala (Best Speaker) T4 | 8 |
| NALSAR Hyderabad | Nani Palkhivala (Semi – Finalist) T4 + BR Sawhney (Organisers) T5 | 4 + 2 = 6 |
| NUJS Kolkata | BR Sawhney (Runners Up) T5 | 5 |
| NLU Jodhpur | BR Sawhney (Best Memorial) T5 | 5 |
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 | NLU Delhi | 25 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 45 | Henry Dunant (Best memorial, Semi finalist) + Manfred Lachs World (Semi finalist) + BCI moot (semi finalist) | ||||||||
| 2 | KIIT Bhubaneshwar | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 40 | BCI moot (Best team, Best mooter – male, Best memorial) | ||||||||
| 3 | NLIU Bhopal | 20 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | Raj Anand (Best team) + BCI moot (Runners up, Best mooter – female) | |||||||
| 4 | NLU Jodhpur | 20 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33 | Henry Dunant (Best team) + Raj Anand (Runners up) + BR Sawhney (Best memorial) | ||||||
| 5 | NLU Orissa | 31 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 31 | Surana IT (Best team, Best memorial) + Nani Palkhivala (Best speaker) | ||||||||
| 6 | JGLS Sonepat | 10 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | Henry Dunant (Runners up) + Nani Palkhivala (Best Team) + BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) | ||||||
| 7 | NUJS Kolkata | 4 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 22 | Surana IT (Semi finalist) + SLCU National moot (Best speaker, Best memorial, Semi finalists) + BR Sawhney (Runners up) | ||||||
| 8 | NLSIU Bangalore | 20 | 2 | 1 | 20 | Henry Dunant (Best advocate, semi finalist) + BCI moot (semi finalist) | |||||||||
| 9 | GLC Mumbai | 10 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) + BR Sawhney (Best oralist, semi finalist) + Nani Palkhivala (organiser) | |||||
| 10 | Nuals Kochi | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 18 | Henry Dunant (Best researcher) + Raj Anand (Semi finalist) + Surana IT (Semi finalist) | ||||||||
| 11 | GNLU Gandhinagar | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 18 | Surana IT (Best advocate) + SLCU National moot (Best team) | ||||||||
| 12 | ILS Pune | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | Raj Anand (Semi finalist, Best speaker, Best memorial) | ||||||||
| 13 | Sastra school of Law Thanjavur | 12 | 1 | 1 | 12 | Nani Palkhivala (Semi Finalist, best researcher) | |||||||||
| 14 | Seedling School of Law & Governance | 10 | 1 | 10 | BCI moot (Best memorial | ||||||||||
| 15 | RMLNLU Lucknow | 10 | 1 | 10 | BR Sawhney (Best team) | ||||||||||
| 16 | RGNUL Patiala | 8 | 1 | 8 | Surana IT (Runners up) | ||||||||||
| 16 | Symbiosis Pune | 8 | 1 | 8 | Nani Palkhivala (Runners up) | ||||||||||
| 17 | Delhi University LC I | 8 | 1 | 8 | Nani Palkhivala (Best memorial) | ||||||||||
| 18 | Nalsar Hyderabad | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | Nani Palkhivala (Semi – Finalist) + BR Sawhney (Organisers) | ||||||||
| 19 | SOEL Chennai | 5 | 1 | 5 | SLCU National moot (Runners up) | ||||||||||
| 20 | HNLU Raipur | 3 | 3 | SLCU National moot (Semi finalists) | |||||||||||
| 21 | Christ University | 2 | 1 | 2 | SLCU National moot (Organiser) |
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Thank you for your comment. Surana Trials are not a part of MPL any longer.
Best wishes,
Prachi
What is the slab this year?? Please provide the link to the Rules for MPL 5.
Kindly NOTIFY of such important changes. Don't be so arbitrary.
You have added organiser points for all colleges EXCEPT symbiosis Pune for Surana IT Moot.
Why have you not done it?
Please make these changes!
Mooting seems to have taken a backseat in the new academic regime. The new VC and the all powerful D-Lady, while doing a host of good to the university, somewhere fail to appreciate that loading the I, II and III year batches with too much courseload and university work extending till way into the night leaves student with little time to do anything apart from mandated academic activities.
Dear Sarkar, wake up. Stop criticising your students. Instead, reflect on the system once.
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