NUJS Kolkata defeated Nalsar Hyderabad and orated with panache at HNLU Raipur’s fifth Justice Hidayatullah Memorial national moot on Sunday, soaring to second spot in Mooting Premiere League (MPL) 4 standings, sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills, right behind Lachs world round winners NLSIU Bangalore.
The tier five moot win along with the best speaker prize spiked NUJS’ MPL 4 total to 43 points, while Nalsar, and semi finalists NLU Delhi and NLIU Bhopal – with its best memorial - also inched upward.
Shantanu Singh from ILS Pune picked up the best researcher award.
Akshat Gupta, Aanchal Dalal and Adrija Das were part of the winning team, while Divyang Trivedi, Swarnarekha and Pradeep were runners up.
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Gupta who was the best speaker said: “Justice SK Sinha mentioned in his [valedictory] speech that at times you have to break it down into very very simple arguments, which are really easy to understand. I think we were able to do that and we tried to keep it purely on logic.”
The winners won a free subscription for a year to a case reports database in addition to a cash prize.
20 teams reasoned on competition and investment law, after 24 teams made it past an elimination round based on judging of the written submissions from around 30 law schools which had originally entered the competition.
International law firm Herbert Smith is sponsoring the Mooting Premier League (MPL) and will contribute a prize pool of Rs 60,000 for the top three winning colleges.
Mooting Premier League 4 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 | NLSIU Bangalore | 100 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 113 | [Rizvi Moot] (Semis); [Surana Trial Adv - South] (gold); [Manfred Lachs Space Moot World Rounds] (gold, best memo, best orator) | |||||||
| 2 | NUJS Kolkata | 8 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 43 | [HMMCC (Best team)(Best speaker)] [Nani Palkhivala (runners up)][BR Sawhney (Best peaker)][SLCU Moot (Gold, Best speaker)] | ||||||||
| 3 | Jindal Global Law School | 15 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33 | [Nani Palkhivala] (Best Memorial)][Henry Dunant] (best researcher, semis); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (gold); | ||||||
| 4 | Faculty of Law, Jamia Milia Islamia University | 10 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | [Nani Palkhivala (Best speaker)][Henry Dunant (Best memo)Surana Trial adv-North (Silver, bet speaker)] | ||||||
| 5 | [[NLU Delhi | 20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24 | [HMMCC (Semis)][Henry Dunant] (gold); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (organiser); | ||||||||
| 6 | GNLU Gandhinagar | 15 | 5 | 1 | 20 | [Nani Palkhivala] (best team); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (Best team) | |||||||||
| 7 | RMLNLU Lucknow | 20 | 1 | 2 | 20 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (gold, best researcher); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (best memo); | |||||||||
| 8 | GLC Mumbai | 10 | 8 | 1 | 18 | Henry Dunant (Best speaker) | |||||||||
| 9 | NLU Jodhpur | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | [Henry Dunant] (silver); [Surana Trial Adv - North] (semis); [B.R Sawhney Moot] (semis) ; | ||||||||
| 10 | Nalsar Hyderabad | 15 | 1 | 16 | [HMMCC (Runners up)] [Rizvi Moot] (Best team); [B.R Sawhney Moot] (organisers) | ||||||||||
| 11 | HNLU Raipur | 8 | 5 | 2 | 15 | Nani Palkhivala (Best Researcher) | |||||||||
| 12 | RGNUL Patiala | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 14 | [Nani Palkhivala] (Semis); [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (semis); B. R Sawhney Moot (runners up) | ||||||||
| 13 | Amity Law School Noida | 13 | 13 | [Rizvi Moot] (Semis) (Best speaker) (Best memorial) | |||||||||||
| 14 | NLIU Bhopal | 4 | 8 | 12 | [HMMCC (Semis)(Best memorial)][Nani Palkhivala (semis)] | ||||||||||
| 15 | ILS Pune | 10 | 1 | 11 | [HMMCC] (Best researcher); [SLCU Moot] (silver); | ||||||||||
| 16 | Department of Law, North-Eastern Hill University | 10 | 1 | 10 | [Henry Dunant] (best speaker); | ||||||||||
| 17 | KIIT School of Law | 10 | 1 | 10 | [B.R Sawhney Moot] (Winners) ; | ||||||||||
| 18 | School of Legal Studies, CUSAT Kochi | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (best memo, semis); | |||||||||
| 19 | SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [SLCU Moot] (best memo, semis); | |||||||||
| 20 | Nirma University | 5 | 1 | 5 | [Henry Dunant] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 21 | NUALS Kochi | 5 | 1 | 5 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (silver); | ||||||||||
| 22 | ULC Bangalore | 5 | 1 | 5 | [NLU Delhi Corp Moot] (best memo); | ||||||||||
| 23 | New Law College, Bharti Vidayapeeth University, Pune | 5 | 1 | 5 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (best speaker); | ||||||||||
| 24 | NLU Orissa | 5 | 1 | 5 | [B.R Sawhney Moot] (Best Memorial) ; | ||||||||||
| 25 | Army Institute of Law, Mohali | 3 | 1 | 3 | [Surana Trial Adv - North] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 26 | Faculty of Law, IFHE Hyderabad | 3 | 1 | 3 | [SLCU Moot] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 27 | Campus Law Centre. Delhi | 3 | 1 | 3 | [B.R Sawhnhey Moot] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 28 | School of Law, Sastra University, Thanjavur | 3 | 1 | 3 | [Surana Trial Adv - South] (semis); | ||||||||||
| 29 | School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore | 1 | 1 | [SLCU Moot] (organiser); | |||||||||||
| 30 | Rizvi Law College | 1 | 1 | Rizvi Moot (organisers) |
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As per the MPL rulebook, ALS Noida should have been awarded three points and not thirteen for reaching the semi-finals of the Rizvi moot.
Amity Noida actually won Best Speaker, and Best memorial also , apart from being a semi finalist at the moot - www.legallyindia.com/201210183201/Mooting/nalsar-wins-rizvi-moot-under-gump-amity-noida-gains-mpl-foothold
Those details have now been added to the table.
Best wishes,
Prachi
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