Mooting

International magic circle law firm Allen & Overy has endowed the second season of the Mooting Premier League (MPL) with a generous sponsorship of Rs 1.2 lakh (£1,600) that will be shared between the best mooting colleges at the end of the season.

Nalsar Hyderabad is now 7 points ahead of NUJS Kolkata in the Mooting Premier League, after a packed mooting Sunday including GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC), the GLC Mumbai DM Harish Moot won by GNLU Gandhinagar, the ULC Bangalore Moot and the Surana Corporate Moot.

Nalsar Hyderabad added 15 points to its Mooting Premier League (MPL) kitty after defeating NUJS Kolkata at the finals of the KLA Moot but remains one point behind score leader NUJS at 92 points.

Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad earned 20 points in the Mooting Premier League after a thumping win against NLSIU Bangalore in an exciting finish to the first Bar Council of India International Law Moot Court Competition.

Last year’s champion Nalsar is now four MPL points behind NUJS Kolkata, which was defeated by Nalsar in the semifinals.

NUJS Kolkata reached the semifinals and won the best speaker award as the Indian representative at the Commonwealth Moot to pull in 12 crucial points from the Tier 4 National Challenger moot, overtaking NLU Delhi at the top of the MPL 2 standings by four points.

Readers and mooters went into tailspin last week over a perceived problem in the quality of judging at Jessup national rounds, posting over 80 comments on this apparently perennial issue. Legally India investigates.

Five Indian teams booked their tickets to Oxford and four qualified from the national rounds to participate in the Leiden-Sarin International rounds in Dubai after the selection rounds for the Oxford IPR Moot and the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot respectively.

ILS Pune defeated Nalsar Hyderabad in the finals of the Surana & Surana South India rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot and won the best memorandum award for a whopping thirty points to boost ILS’ MPL ranking from sixteenth position to sixth.

Newcomer NLU Delhi earned a whopping thirty points to lead the MPL 2 standings after defeating the veteran NUJS Kolkata mooters in Sunday’s finals of the Surana & Surana Jessup North India Rounds.

George Washington University defeated NLU Delhi to win the K.K. Luthra Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2011. With a total of 41 points, NLU Delhi has now jumped to fourth position in the MPL 2 season standings.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has finally announced the much-awaited schedule of this year’s edition of its moot court competition, which will be an international moot for the first time.

“If blackening of one’s name is the price for there to be a proper space law moot court competition, then I shall pay it,” declared former Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Asia Pacific regional organiser Ricky Lee in an fiery public statement. A little while later he set up a rival space law moot promising to eclipse the original.

Legally India’s team MPL looks behind the scenes of the spat and the future of the Manfred Lachs and other space law competitions.

Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad has launched its first national moot court competition, the ILNU National Moot Court Competition. The event is scheduled to be held on 26th and 27th March, 2011.

NUJS Kolkata won the Oxford International Media Law Moot - India Competition after defeating NLSIU Bangalore in the finals, taking both colleges to third and fourth in the Mooting Premier League second season.