Manfred Lachs Space Moot defending world champions NLS Bangalore lost very narrowly to National University of Singapore in the Asia-Pacific finals in Sydney, while NUJS Kolkata crashed out in the semis and Nalsar Hyderabad and NLIU Bhopal made it to the quarter-finals.
Manfred Lachs regional organiser Ricky Lee said that the National University of Singapore prevailed on Saturday (17 April) over NLS Bangalore in a very close decision.
"The judges had difficulty separating the two teams," he said, "and it took them half an hour to deliberate before arriving at an outcome.
He added: "National University of Singapore had an inferior memorial score to the National Law School [Bangalore] - if Singapore did not carry the oral judgements unanimously then they would have lost."
Despite the defeat, NLS Bangalore picked up 10 points in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) sponsored by Clifford Chance, putting it 18 points ahead of NLU Jodhpur in second place although still 36 points out of reach of first-placed Nalsar Hyderabad.
NUJS Kolkata advanced to the semi-finals of the Manfred Lachs Moot in Sydney and like NLS Bangalore also lost out to the eventual winners from Singapore.
NUJS wins 7 MPL points for its performance, which with 45 points will see the Kolkata law school overtake School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) Chennai and slip into 4th place behind NLU Jodhpur.
No Indian law school won either of the two best oralist prizes or the best memorial prize, confirmed Lee.
NLS' defeat in the finals means that the Bangalore national law school will not be able to defend its title in the world finals of the Manfred Lachs Space Moot in the next season of the MPL.
The MPL is sponsored by Clifford Chance and the top eight ranked law colleges will share a generous prize fund of Rs 1.5 lakhs provided by the firm.
2009-10 Mooting Premier League rankings, sponsored by Clifford Chance
Law school | Points | Wins | |
1. | Nalsar Hyderabad | 149 | 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); Amity Moot (runners up, best orator, best memorial, best researcher); Philip C Jessup (semi-finalist); ISRO Manfred Lachs funding rounds (best orator) |
2. | NLSIU Bangalore | 112 | 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); I |
3. | NLU Jodhpur | 94 | 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); Amity Moot (best team); Stetson International (5th & 6th best orator) |
4. | NUJS Kolkata | 45 | All India Corporate Law Moot (best team, best researcher); Willem C Vis Hong Kong (honorable mention); I |
5. | School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) Chennai | 43 | Henry Dunant Indian rounds (best team, best orator), NLIU Tankha (best orator); Nani Palkhiwala (best team); Red Cross Asia Pacific (semi-finalist; honourable mention best memorial) |
6. | 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) |
7. | 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) |
8. | Government Law College (GLC) Mumbai | 26 | KK Luthra (best team); MM Singhvi (best team); DM Harish (best orator, best memorial) |
9. | Amity Law School IP University Delhi | 25 | IICLAM (best team & best orator); Stetson North (runner-up), Jessup North (best memorial) |
10. | Symbiosis, Pune | 24 | Nani Palkhiwala (runners up, best orator); GNLU International Moot Court (runners up); ULC Bangalore Moot (runners-up); Willem C Vis Vienna (best orator hon. mention) |
11. | Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL) Patiala | 18 | Henry Dunant national rounds (best researcher); NLIU Tankha (best team); ULC Bangalore Moot (Best Memorial) |
12. | GNLU Gandhinagar | 17 | IICLAM (runners-up); ELSA WTO Asia (runners-up, best orator) |
13. | Law Centre I (LC-I) Delhi University | 14 | Henry Dunant Indian rounds (best memorial), Jessup North (runner-up) |
14. | Nuals Kochi | 13 | Surana Trial Advocacy North (runners-up); Jessup South (best memorial); Surana International Tech Moot (runners up) |
15. | University Institute of Laws PURC, Ludhiana | 11 | Surana trial advocacy north rounds (best team, best orator) |
16. | CMR Law School, Bangalore | 10 | ULC Bangalore Moot (best orator, best researcher) |
16. | Kerala Law Academy Thiruvananthapuram | 10 | Stetson South (best team) |
16. | NLU Delhi | 10 | DM Harish (best team) |
19. | UILS Punjab | 8 | Surana Trial advocacy South (runners up, best orator) |
20. | HNLU Raipur | 7 | Stetson North (best orator) |
20. | New Law College Bharati Vidyapeeth University Pune | 7 | Stetson South (runner-up) |
22. | CNLU Patna | 5 | GNLU International Moot (best memorial) |
22. | Government Law College Ernakulam | 5 | MM Singhvi (best orator) |
22. | Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad | 5 | Surana Trial Advocacy North (best memorial) |
22. | ULC Bangalore | 5 | All India Corporate Law Moot (best memorial) |
26. | Campus Law Centre Delhi | 3 | SP Sathe (runners up) |
Click here for an updated (February 2010) list of the Mooting Premier League scoring criteria.
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Hope it has a better season next year :-)
IMHO mooting should be taken away from the hands of students and be administered by a board of teachers. Prof Singh should head the body. People favouring their friends or indulging in politics should be BANNED FOR LIFE from mooting.
Oustal of some great mooters won't affect the standards. Its the law of nature: things come and go, the 5th years have to passout.
The younger batches have shown great prommise and will surely take NUJS' mooting legacy to greater heights.
2) When will this season of the MPL end?
It may be possible that great mooters also happen to be friends or girlfriends of each other. What does that have to do with their mooting capabilities. Each individual or team (in case of challengers) goes through a rigorous process of selections, the later two rounds of which are judged by external judges.
If you were not good enough to make it to the moot team, think of doing something else equally productive. It's OK. Not everyone is a great mooter. You may be really good at something else... Write articles or something.. If you think you cant do anything worthwhile in law switch stream - say designing or painting. You could think of crossing the road and joining our neighbour, NIFT.
Please understand doing better than you is not a crime and your anonymous comments are not going to take away from people their mooting achievements.
And abt, Prof. Singh heading the MCS, yes he does. In capacity of the patron of SJA. If you think he can sit and conduct the internal selections or organise the home moot your idea of the VC's office is messed up.
But really really? I have heard this from another ex-NLS-ite recently actually but am not at all sure how this article is biased exactly.
NLS was the lead of the article with a dramatic opener of just missing its chance to defend the title. That surely was the main news right there, plus it then goes into lots of compliments about how close the final was, how NLS won it last year, etc.
The second-most interesting angle was surely NUJS' return to form and climbing of another MPL place. NLS by contrast stayed in second place.
If you really disagree, please do let me know.
We are still checking whether this moot has honourable mentions - Mr Lee said when we spoke earlier this week that it did not, but we will double check.
Best,
Kian
The moot did not have honourable mentions. But considering the fact that you equated '4th best memo' at jessup to an honourable mention, I'm pretty sure a 2nd best memo would qualify as an honourable mention too.
is the NALSAR-NFCG moot recognized by the MPL? If no, why?
Among many answers, a lot of moots in the national circuits have not been included with this being the first year of MPL. So maybe, next year.
let's please not even go there. we all know the allegations, we all know the truth of it. 'nuff said.
And I don't know what it is with you mooters, but please stop pretending like you're in a place where everyone wants to be. I think law schools give enough liberties to EVERYONE to choose EXACTLY what they want to do. You choose to moot, good for you. It's time you stop shoving it in other people's business. If someone else chooses to debate / author articles / or hell, even just sit under a tree and read a book - it's there business. The tone of your post, and others before this, really puts me off.
I hope that with time you realize that everything is not about winning accolades. I can't even count on my fingers the number of law students who could easily make it to the 'A' team of any moot team, but they just choose to involve themselves in some other activity. Is that, Sir, a crime then? Or does that still somehow put you and all other mooters at a pedestal higher than them?
At the end of the day - mooting is just one of the MANY things to do at law school. What matters is not whether you're winning or losing, but what you take away from it. Some of the best mooters I've had the privilege of interacting with had won far lesser moots than some others who still had a while to go before achieving any such 'greatness'. I'm sorry to say, but if you are one of those who lives and dies by their CV, you're not someone I would ever regard as a "great" mooter.
With due respect to your suggestions about what # 6 should do with his time - I have a few of my own to add to your list. Watch, observe and learn. Read if you like some, meet new people if you wish. And if you find the time - moot, but only if it is something that you enjoy. (or, following in #11's footsteps, you could choose to be a mooter just to be a pompous sonofagun).
Sometimes I wonder if the only reason mooting still continues to enjoy such popularity in India law schools is because it gives a bunch of people a false sense of superiority. At the start of the year, some 50-60 odd students choose to moot (our of somewhere close to 500?). From within these, the top 20-30 get to participate in all sorts of moots. Do they really think the rest of the 400 students are fools who know nothing better than them?
In another post, someone commented about how mooters don't get the privileges that they deserve at a particular law school - which, incidentally, included permission to miss lectures. Hah!
To me, the MCS would have done its job when it somehow manages to attract better students from within the 400 who DON'T moot to come and participate. Senseless politicking, camps, nepotism, scams.. One would imagine that by now you would have realized that mooters really are a bunch of fools for not being able to prevent these / or even worse to contribute to these!
Before you bother asking - I mooted once and I did win my round. I found it criminally senseless and I chose to pack my bags and go backpacking for the weekend instead. Shoot me already?
NUJS has won the moot; best memo and second best speaker. :-)
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