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CNLU Patna wins 2nd BCI moot of the season defeating CLC Delhi

CNLU Patna defeated Campus Law Centre Delhi in the finals of the 28th Bar Council of India Moot hosted by NLU Delhi. Nalsar Hyderabad and Symbiosis Law School, Pune finished semifinalists in this Tier 3 MPL moot.

Nishant Jethra from Campus Law Centre, Delhi and Madhupreetha Elango, ILS Pune won the best speaker awards for the male and female categories respectively.

After the moot, CNLU Patna and Campus Law Centre, Delhi moved six places up in the MPL 3 Standings, from the 24th to the 18th position and from the 14th to the 8th position respectively.

The CNLU team consisted of speakers Girijapati Kaushal, Vibhanshu Srivastava and researcher Ravi Prakash. Kaushal said that the moot win was more than a good experience for the team. “It was a life-changing event,” he said. “We won BCI. What else we could we have thought of?”

Kaushal mentioned that the judging quality was consistently good throughout the moot. “The judging was marvellous. The judges were down to earth. One interesting experience that we had was that in almost every round, we had one actual judge on the bench. It was nice to have members of the Indian judiciary adjudging every other round.”

Kaushal said that the second round was the toughest round in the moot. “In the second round, only 4 teams were selected out of 26 teams for the semis. We faced HNLU Raipur in this round. The round made the moot quite challenging, though I admit, it makes luck a very important factor in the moot.”

The moot problems in each round of the four rounds of the competition were based on Contract law, Family law, Media law and Law of torts. “The problems were very meticulously drafted and tested one’s knowledge and application of the law. We found it very enjoyable.” Kaushal specifically mentioned that the CNLU Patna won the moot based on comparative performance of other teams. “This win did not benchmark our quality, but this win is a benchmark which we will be chasing in future.”

Sarvajeet from NLU Delhi confirmed the results and said that 49 teams participated in the moot. There was no best memorandum award in the moot. This is the second BCI moot this season, as a part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the BCI. The first BCI moot was hosted by Nirma University in February, where Nalsar Hyderabad defeated SOEL Chennai to win the moot.

Mooting Premier League 3 season standings

Pos Law school Pts Details
1 NLSIU Bangalore 231 DMH (best speaker); Surana Corp (silver, best memo); GIMC (gold); KLA (best memo); Rizvi (gold); Jessup South (gold, best memo); Oxford Media India rounds (silver, best memo); Stetson South (gold, best memo); NLIU-Juris Corp (gold, best speaker, best memo); Palkhivala (gold); Dunant (silver); B.R. Sawhney (gold); Trial Adv South (silver); Raj Anand Moot (semis); Maritime Arbitration (semis, best memo, hon men for best resp memo);
2 NLU Jodhpur 127 NLU Antitrust (organiser); Amity moot (silver, best speaker, best researcher); Surana Tech (semis); GIMC (silver); Jessup North (best speaker); Stetson North (gold); Hidayatullah (gold, best speaker, best memo); Dunant (best memo); Trial Adv North (silver, best speaker, best memo); IICLAM (gold);
3 NLU Delhi 109 ULC moot (best male speaker, best female speaker); BCI-Nirma (semis); Surana Tech (semis); DMH (semis); KLA (semis); Jessup North (gold); KK Luthra (gold); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (best researcher, semis); Oxford Media India rounds (gold, best speaker); (Law Asia (semis); Dunant (semis); IICLAM (organiser);
4 GLC Mumbai 106 Amity moot (gold); DMH (best memo); NUJS-HS (gold, best speaker, best memo); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (best speaker); NLIU-Juris Corp (semis); Trial Adv South (gold, best speaker); IICLAM (Best Memo); Raj Anand Moot (silver);
5 Nalsar Hyderabad 85 [BCI - NLU Delhi] (semis); NLU Antitrust (silver, best memo); BCI-Nirma (gold, best female speaker); DMH (semis); Jessup South (semis); Oxford Media India rounds (semis);Dunant (gold); B.R. Sawhney (organiser);
6 NUJS Kolkata 79 NLU Antitrust (gold, best researcher); NUJS-HS (organiser); KLA (silver); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (gold, best memo); Oxford Media India rounds (semis); NLIU-Juris Corp (semis); Hidayatullah (silver, best researcher); B.R. Sawhney (semis); SLCU Moot (silver, best speaker, best memo); Trial Adv North (semis);
7 ILS Pune 62 [BCI - NLU Delhi] (best female speaker); Surana Tech (silver); GIMC (best memo, best speaker, semis); KK Luthra (silver); Stetson South (best speaker); B.R. Sawhney (best speaker, semis); Trial Adv South (semis);
8 Campus Law Centre Delhi 60 [BCI - NLU Delhi] (silver, best male speaker); Amity moot (semis); ULC moot (semis); KLA (gold); Raj Anand Moot (gold, best speaker);
9 NLIU Bhopal 59 NLU Antitrust (best speaker, semis); BCI-Nirma (semis); NUJS-HS (silver); GIMC (semis); Rizvi (silver, best speaker); NLIU-Juris Corp (organiser); SLCU Moot (gold); Raj Anand Moot (semis, best memo);
10 RMLNLU Lucknow 53 DMH (best reseracher); Surana Corp (semis);KK Luthra (best memo); Stetson North (silver); Palkhivala (silver); Trial Adv North (semis);
11 RGNUL Patiala 51 Amity moot (best memo, semis); ULC moot (silver); Surana Tech (best memo); Jessup North (semis); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (semis); Stetson North (best speaker); Hidayatullah (semis); B.R. Sawhney (best memo);
12 School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore 49 Surana Corp (gold, best speaker); KLA (best speaker); SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (organiser); IICLAM (silver, best speaker); SLCU Moot (organiser);
13 GNLU Gandhinagar 47 NLU Antitrust (semis); GIMC (organiser); Jessup North (best memo, semis); Palkhivala (best researcher, semis); B.R. Sawhney (silver); Trial Adv North (gold);
14 SOEL Chennai 45 BCI-Nirma (silver, best male speaker); Jessup South (silver, best speaker); Stetson South (semis);Trial Adv South (best memo);
15 HNLU Raipur 39 Jessup North (silver);Stetson North (semis); NLIU-Juris Corp (best researcher); Palkhivala (best speaker, semis); [Hidayatullah (organiser); SLCU Moot (semis);
16 Symbiosis Law School, Pune 36 [BCI - NLU Delhi] (semis); ULC moot (best memo); Surana Tech (organisers); NUJS-HS (semis); Rizvi (best memo, semis); Palkhivala (best memo); IICLAM (semis);
17 Jindal Global Law School 33 ULC moot (gold); NUJS-HS (semis); KK Luthra (semis); Dunant (best speaker, semis);
18 CNLU Patna 25 [BCI - NLU Delhi] (gold); Stetson North (semis);
19 School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi 23 Surana Tech (gold, best speaker);
20 V M Salgaocar Law College, Goa 10 Stetson South (silver);
21 Army Institute of Law, Mohali 10 Stetson North (best memo);
22 Amity Law School IP University Delhi 10 Amity (oraganisers); NLIU-Juris Corp (silver);
23 KLE Bangalore 9 ULC moot (best researcher); IICLAM (semis);
24 School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur 6 ULC moot (semis); Trial Adv South (semis);
25 New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune 5 Stetson South (semis);
25 Dr. Ambedkar Law College, Chennai 5 Jessup South (semis);
27 NUALS Kochi 5 SLCU-LKS-CCI Antitrust (silver);
28 AKK New Law Academy, Pune 4 KLA (semis);
28 Symbiosis Law School, Noida 4 Surana Corp (semis);
30 ULC Bangalore 4 ULC moot (organisers); SLCU Moot (semis);
31 SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law 3 Hidayatullah (semis);
31 Guru Gobind University 3 Rizvi (semis);
33 J S S Law College, Mysore 2 Surana Corp (organiser);
33 Nirma University 2 BCI-Nirma (organisers);

For more information please refer to the MPL 3 rulebook.

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