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NLU Jodhpur to MPL 2nd after Oxford Price national moot victory over Nalsar (with possibly best judging in India)

The team from NLU Jodhpur comprising of Rohan Tigadi, Sanjana Srikumar and Sagar Gupta has won the South Asian Rounds Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, 2015 held at NLU Delhi from 20 to 23 November. 

NLU-J bested Nalsar Hyderabad in the finals of the tier 3 moot.

Yashna Mehta from NLSIU Bangalore was adjudged as the best speaker of the competition while NLU Jodhpur took home the best memorial award.

NLU Jodhpur’s Tigadi commented that he was impressed with the moot’s organisation, accommodation, judging and transparency, which were all “top class”. “I particularly liked the fact that they gave individual accommodations to participants.”

Tigadi said that he was also impressed with the quality of judging. “I believe Price media is the only moot in India that provides you with a profile of judges. Some of the people who judged us were people I really looked up to. It was an honour to be judged by Geeta Hariharan (Jessup champion), Vrinda Bhandari (Rhodes scholar), Sourav Roy (Price media winner), Abhinav Sekhri , Willem Korthals Altes (appellate judge, The Netherlands) and Menaka Guruswamy during the course of our rounds. I do not think there is any other moot in India that can match the quality of judging in price media.”

NLU Jodhpur winning team
NLU Jodhpur winning team
Tigadi said he wasnted to also thank his coach and former teammate Vinayak Panikkar for their guidance, as well as previous NLU Delhi Price media moot winner Harshad Pathak.

NLU Delhi and NLSIU Bangalore were the other two semi finalists and NLSIU emerged as the winner in the international qualifier among these two semi finalists.

NLU Jodhpur has overtaken NLIU Bhopal in second place of the MPL after its performance, with only 11 points behind leader NLU Delhi.

Score subject to change after updating with other moots this season so far.

Last year’s NLU Delhi disqualification ratified

NLU Delhi has also been host to this moot for three years now.

Last year, the team from NLU Delhi was disqualified from the South Asia qualifying rounds after allegations of having gained an unfair advantage over other teams surfaced.

In an emailed statement, NLU Delhi wrote: “An internal three-member committee looked into the disqualification of the NLU Delhi team last year. It was of the view that the disqualification of that team was the proper course of action. The vice-chancellor agreed with the finding and decided that the measures taken were sufficient in the given circumstances.”

At A Glance: Law School Wise

Law School

Award

Score

NLU Jodhpur

Price Media (Winner + Best Memorial) T3

20 +10= 30

NALSAR Hyderabad

Price Media (Runners Up) T3

10

NLSIU Bangalore

Price Media (Best Speaker + Semi Finalists) T3

10+5=15

NLU Delhi

Price Media (Semi Finalists) T3

5

At A Glance: Moot Wise

Moot

Law School

Winners

NLU Jodhpur

Runners Up

NALSAR Hyderabad

Best Speaker

Yashna Mehta, NLSIU Bangalore

Best Memorial

NLU Jodhpur

Semi Finalists

NLU Delhi and NLSIU Bangalore

MPL Season 6 Rankings

Rank

Law School

Points

Awards

1

NLU Delhi

80

Manfred Lachs World (Winner + Best Speaker)+ CLEA (Best Memorial) T5 = 40 + 30 + 5 : Price Media (Semi Finalists) T3 = 5

2

NLU Jodhpur

69

Henry Dunant (Best team) = 20; Surana IT (Semi Finalist) T4= 4; Stetson (Semi Finalists + Best Speaker) T3 =10+5 : Price Media(Winner + Best Memorial) T3 =20+10

3

NLIU Bhopal

58

Raj Anand (Best team + Best memorial + Best speaker) + NLIU Juris Corp (organiser) + Amity (Best Memorial) T5 + CLEA (Winners + Best Speaker) T5 + BCI (Semi Finalists) T3= 15 + 8 + 8 + 2 + 5 +15 + 5

4

NLSIU Bangalore

44

Raj Anand (runners up) = 8; BR Sawhney (Runners Up + Best Speaker) T4 + CLEA (Runners Up) T5 = 8 +8 + 5= 21 : Price Media (Best Speaker + Semi Finalists) T3 = 10+ 5

5

NALSAR Hyderabad

37

BR Sawhney (Org)T4 = 2; Amity (Winners) T5= 10; BCI (Runners Up) T3 =10: Stetson (Semi Finalists) T3 = 5 : Price Media (Runners Up) T3 = 10

6

RMLNLU Lucknow

36

Henry Dunant (runners up + Best Memorial) + Raj Anand (semi finalist) = 10 + 10 + 4 = 24; Surana IT (Semi Finalist + Best Speaker) T4= 4+8

7

NLUO Cuttack

36

Henry Dunant (Best researcher + semi finalist) = 10 + 5 = 15; Amity (Runners Up) T5= 5; Surana IT (Runners Up+ Best Memorial) T4 = 8+ 8

8

ILNU Ahmedabad

34

BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) T4 = 4 ; BCI (Winner + Best Speaker) T3 =20+10= 30

9

NUJS Kolkata

28

CLEA (Semi finalists) T5; BCI (Semi Finalists) T3; Stetson (Winner) T3 = 3 + 5 + 20

10

ILS Pune

27

NLIU Juris Corp (Best team + Best speaker) = 15 + 8 = 23; BR Sawhney (Semi Finalist) T4 = 4

11

HNLU Raipur

23

NLIU Juris Corp (Runners up) = 8; BR Sawhney (Winners) T4 = 15

12

RGNUL Patiala

18

BR Sawhney (Best Memorial) T4; Stetson (Runners Up) T3 = 8 + 10

13

KLA

15

Henry Dunant (Best speaker + semi finalist) = 10 + 5 = 15

14

School of Law, Sashtra University

15

Surana IT (Winners) T4 = 15

15

Symbiosis Pune

14

Raj Anand (semi finalist) + Juris Corp (Best researcher) = 4 + 8 = 12; Surana IT (Organizer) T4= 2

16

GNLU Gandhinagar

10

Stetson (Best Memorial) T3

17

NUSRL Ranchi

8

NLIU Juris Corp (Best memorial) = 8

18

NUALS Kochi

8

Amity (Semi Finalist + Best Speaker) T5 = 3+5 = 8

19

CNLU Patna

6

Amity (Best Researcher) T5 + CLEA (Organizer) = 5+1

20

GLC Mumbai

3

Amity (Semi Finalist) T5 = 3

21

BILS Bangalore

3

CLEA (Semi finalists) T5

22

Lloyd Law College

2

BCI (Organizer) T3 = 2

23

Amity Noida

1

Amity (Org) T5 = 1

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