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Heavy mid-field MPL action as ILS, non-nat'l law schools prove mettle (CORRECTION)

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This mooting weekend belonged to ILS Law College Pune, which scored back-to-back victories to propel it into fifth place of the Mooting Premier League (MPL). ILS Pune is now the top-ranked non-national law school, taking over the position from SOEL Chennai and overtaking NLIU Bhopal.

At the ninth Surana & Surana International Technology moot court competition at Symbiosis Law School Pune from 26 to 28 February, ILS Pune won the event after defeating the team from Nuals Kochi in the finals.

Nuals gained 3 MPL points from the event, jumping two places up to the 12th position.

NLU Jodhpur's Mayank Jain bagged the best orator winning 5 points, meaning only 4 points now separate NLU Jodhpur from NLSIU Bangalore in second place.

[Correction 3 March 2010: 1. We had originally erroneously reported that UILS Punjab University had won the best orator award. This was caused by confusion amongst convenors as well as participants, as Surana Tech has a large number of best orator subcategories. NLU Jodhpur won the best orator prize in the preliminary rounds, which are the ones we use for MPL scores in such cases.
2. We have also corrected an earlier inaccuracy from November 2009 in reporting Nalsar BR Sawhney moot court best memorial prize. We have now received full confirmation from the moot court convenors at Nalsar that in November the best memorial prize went to NLU Jodhpur and not NLIU Bhopal, as was originally reported. This means that Bhopal has dropped to joint fifth place behind ILS Pune. Thanks for pointing both of these out. We regret the errors sincerely. -Ed]

The league leader Nalsar Hyderabad had a quiet weekend compared to its performance in the past few weeks but nevertheless managed to get 5 points by winning the best memorial and extending its lead at the top.

Alakiri Asaithambi of ILS Pune won best orator in the finals and commented: "It was a good experience and the judging was good. The judges not only had knowledge of law, but also were very knowledgeable in the field of technology and economics. The problem required knowledge of both law and technology."

In the second MPL-included event this weekend, ILS Pune won the ULC Bangalore moot court competition organised by the Society of Mooters of ULC Bangalore from 26 to 28 February.

ILS won another 5 points from the event, taking its total tally from the weekend to 10 points. With the two wins, ILS has now moved to fourth position and is now two points ahead of NLIU Bhopal. [See above correction. -Ed]

In an all-Pune final, ILS Pune had defeated Symbiosis Law School Pune in the competition. With the 3 points earned from the runner-up place, Symbiosis is now back in the top 10 again.

RGNUL Patiala bagged 5 points with the best memorial prize at the event, which puts puts the college into 9th place from 10th.

However the biggest winner of the event was new entrant CMR Law School Bangalore.

Shurup Chouwdhary of CMR Bangalore won the best orator and the college also bagged the best researcher award. This gives CMR a strong entry into the MPL in an impressive 16th place with 10 points.

Society of Mooters ULC Bangalore convenor Anirudh Garga said that this was the 14th edition of the moot court competition which sees participation from the entire country and top law colleges. The finals of the event were judged by sitting High Court Judges.

He added: "All score cards are to be put in our website - www.ulcxivmoot.in - soon to ensure transparency. I like to say that this moot is one of the most transparent moots all over India, we do not have any personal choices and all judges were eminent persons in the field of law." [The quote was added on 2 March in response to a comment below. -Ed]

A total of 26 law colleges from all over India have now gained points in the MPL with the difference between the top-ranked and the last-placed Campus Law Centre Delhi and GNLU Gandhinagar being a whopping 111 points.

A total of 15 non-national law schools are present in the league table, with the majority (six) of the top 10 being non-national law schools.

Nalsar Hyderabad still remains in a strong lead, followed by NLS Bangalore and NLU Jodhpur.

However, this week Symbiosis Pune and Nuals Kochi overtook 13th placed NUJS Kolkata, which is understood to have had a disappointing mooting season compared to last year due to internal politics and funding issues.

Next week's MPL will cover this year's first tier 2 moot event this season with the Henry Dunant Asia Pacific rounds. SOEL Chennai is representing India at the event after having won the National and SAARC rounds. Last year, GNLU Gandhniagar represented India and were runners-up in the event.

Tier 2 wins are worth 15 points, with runners-up bagging 10 points. A total of 44 points are allocated between semi-finalists, best orator, memorial and researcher.

SOEL Chennai has not won a moot since strong performances last year but if it performs well at Henry Dunant's Asia Pacific rounds it could take the school up the ranks of the MPL.

Next week the tier 4 Amity Law School moot court competition will also take place.

We are still confirming the best memorial prize at BR Sawhney, after comments that NLU Jodhpur had won this. We hope to get a final confirmation this week. [See below 3 March update.]

2 March: we have received a comment on the winner of the best orator prize in this Surana Tech moot. What we have reported responds to several sources, although as Surana Tech awards four best orator prizes, a lot of people are unclear on exactly who has won this. We will get full and final confirmation of this tomorrow. [see 3 March updates below]

3 March 2010 corrections:
1. We had originally erroneously reported that UILS Punjab University had won the best orator award. This was caused by confusion amongst convenors as well as participants, as Surana Tech has a large number of best orator subcategories. NLU Jodhpur won the best orator prize in the preliminary rounds, which are the ones we use for MPL scores in such cases.

2. We have also corrected an inaccuracy from November in reporting the Nalsar BR Sawhney moot court best memorial prize. We have now received full confirmation from the moot court convenors at Nalsar that the best memorial prize in November went to NLU Jodhpur and not NLIU Bhopal, as was originally reported. This means that Bhopal has dropped to joint fifth place behind ILS Pune. Thanks for pointing both of these out. We regret the errors sincerely.


2009-10 Legally India Mooting Premier League table


Law school Points Wins
1.
Nalsar Hyderabad 114
IICLAM (best memorial); Henry Dunant Indian rounds (runners-up); Surana Trial Advocacy South (best team, best memorial); Nani Palkhiwala (best memorial), Bar Council of India (best team); KK Luthra (runners-up, best speaker); NLIU Tankha (runners-up, best memo); MM Singhvi (best memo); Jessup South (runner-up); DM Harish (best researcher); Surana Corporate (best team, best memorial); SP Sathe (best team, best orator); KLA Moot (runners up); NUJS Herbert Smith (best team, best memorial); Surana Int'l Tech Moot (best memorial)
2. NLSIU Bangalore 78 Manfred Lachs (best team, best orator); Stetson South (best advocate), Bar Council of India (best orator); KK Luthra (best memorial); MM Singhvi (best researcher); Jessup South (best team, best orator); KLA Moot (best memorial)
3.
NLU Jodhpur 74
Nalsar B.R.Sawhney (runners-up, best memorial); Stetson North (best team, best memorial); Jessup North (best team, best orator); Surana Corporate (runners up, best orator); SP Sathe (best memorial); KLA Moot (best team, best orator); NUJS Herbert Smith (runners-up); Surana Int'l Tech Moot (best orator)
4.
ILS Law College Pune 31
Bar Council of India (runners-up); DM Harish (runners-up); NUJS Herbert Smith (best speaker); Surana International Tech Moot (best team); ULC Bangalore Moot (best team)
5. NLIU Bhopal 29
All India Corporate Law Moot (runners-up, best orator); Nalsar B.R.Sawhney (best team, best orator); Stetson South (best memorial); MM Singhvi (runners-up)
5. School of Excellence Chennai 29
Henry Dunant Indian rounds (best team, best orator), NLIU Tankha (best orator); Nani Palkhiwala (best team)
7.
Government Law College (GLC) Mumbai 26
KK Luthra (best team); MM Singhvi (best team); DM Harish (best orator, best memorial)
8.
Amity Law School IP University Delhi 25
IICLAM (best team & best orator); Stetson North (runner-up), Jessup North (best memorial)
9. Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL) Patiala 18 Henry Dunant national rounds (best researcher); NLIU Tankha (best team); ULC Bangalore Moot (Best Memorial)
10.
Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University 14
Henry Dunant Indian rounds (best memorial), Jessup North (runner-up)
10. Symbiosis, Pune 14 Nani Palkhiwala (runners up, best orator); GNLU International Moot Court (runners up); ULC Bangalore Moot (runners-up)
12. Nuals Kochi 13 Surana Trial Advocacy North (runners-up); Jessup South (best memorial); Surana International Tech Moot (runners up)
13. NUJS Kolkata 11
All India Corporate Law Moot (best team, best researcher)
13. University Institute of Laws PURC, Ludhiana
11 Surana trial advocacy north rounds (best team, best orator)
15. Law School, Bangalore 10 ULC Bangalore Moot (best orator, best researcher)
15. Kerala Law Academy Thiruvananthapuram 10 Stetson South (best team)
15.
NLU Delhi
10
DM Harish (best team)
18. UILS Punjab 8 Surana Trial advocacy South (runners up, best orator)
19. HNLU Raipur 7 Stetson North (best orator)
19. New Law College Bharati Vidyapeeth University Pune 7 Stetson South (runner-up)
21.
CNLU Patna
5
GNLU International Moot (best memorial)
21. Government Law College Ernakulam 5 MM Singhvi (best orator)
21. Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad 5 Surana Trial Advocacy North (best memorial)
21. ULC Bangalore 5 All India Corporate Law Moot (best memorial)
25. Campus Law Centre Delhi 3 SP Sathe (runners up)
25. GNLU Gandhinagar 3 IICLAM (runners-up)

Click here for an updated (February 2010) list of the scoring criteria we are using.

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