Friday, December 1, 2006

My First National Moot.

MY FIRST "NATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION"


Two of us (Nupoorn myself) were selected for the National Moot Court Competition. Nupoor being a better rank holder at our intra-semester moot court competition had chosen me. Now it was the two of us who had to make a team of three out of the list of 28 other selected candiadates. we failed to do so. Finally we managed to select one of our batchmates (Sangeetha) who missed to be in the list of selected candidates. Nupoor n myself somehow managed to convince the vice chancellor.

The only thing which bothered us during our preperation was that the competition was at belgaum and not at banagalore as it was, the previous year. The whole moot court competition was based on Article 356 of the Indian Constitution. all of us had to work hard with it because of two reasons. Firstly, there was no time left. Secondly, our seniors had bagged "the best memorial award."Though during our preperations we had a number of fights because of differece in our attitudesbut we were finally ready for it. On the 1st of feb were to leave for belgaum via pune.We reached belgaum on the third morning and soon after our arrival at the hotel we were told to get ready for the innaugral function followed by a couple of competitions, draw of lots for the moot court competition.THE INNUAGRAL FUNCTIONA national-level regulatory authority to monitor legal education in the country should be set up, V. Vijay Kumar, Registrar, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, has said.He was addressing a gathering of law students and faculty at the "National Law Fest" organised by K.L.E. Society's Law Academy.In view of the emergence of new rules and laws, which have a bearing on the socio-economic and cultural life of the country, Mr. Kumar proposed the idea of setting up an authority to evolve a uniform standard of quality for all law schools and colleges across the country. The immediate objective should be to bring about qualitative improvements in legal education and make it competitive, he added.He said several universities in the country are following the syllabi drafted during the 1940s. India's potential to become a global education centre cannot be ruled out, and along with the growth of other professional courses, legal education has to be improved, he added.He called for improvement in the examination and evaluation system. He said there is lack of coordination among persons involved in framing the syllabus, teachers, those setting question papers, and those who evaluate answer scripts. Many students fall victim to such a system, he added. Often those setting question papers simply pick up questions from previous question papers. "This type of teaching and evaluation is a mockery of legal education," he said.

V.S. Malimath, the former Chief Justice of the High Courts of Karnataka and Kerala, inaugurated the festival. KLES Secretary F.V. Manvi and academy principal S.V. Udapudi were present. Thirteen teams from Chattisgargh, West Bengal, Goa, Maharashtra and Kerala are participating in the moot court and essay competitions during the event.

POST INNAUGRATION


The innaugral fuction was followed by esaay and quiz competition. Its to our bad luck that we failed to hold any position in the above two competitions. Then was the main event, the draw of lots for the "THE NATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION". Our team was against some college of IP university, Delhi. We managed to get a victory against them in the first round of prilims but then again to our bad luck we had to face the winners of the competition, the team from NALSAR, Hyderabad, we lost!. At this point i would say that we were able to give them a good competition. I am sure the NALSAR team would also agree to this.
Finally, for us, we had to quit the competition then and there because of the loss we faced against the NALSAR team.


VALEDICTORY FUNCTION


For those who have attended the fest, i know there was a cultural nite on 4th but none of us attended that so i feel useless to mention it. We were upset on valedictory function as well, may be because we worked too hard with it and we had to quit at an early stage. but then its okay!
After the first segment of awards were given it was the time for the main segment which brought a small smill on our faces as in my team coz we were awarded "THE BEST MEMORIAL" award. This shows hard work pays!


SPECIAL THANKS TO:
My Family
My Teammates (Nupoor and Sangeetha)
Mr. Uday Shankar, Asst. Prof. Hidayatullah National Law Univerity
My Friends especially Saraogi
Mrs. Vijaylaxmi, Team Guide, Student, B.V. Bellad Law College, Belagaum
Mahesh, Student, B.V. Bellad Law College, Belagaum
Other participants
and THE HOST COLLEGE.
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Confession
One of the paras in the above post has been copied from THE HINDU.
This was all about my first National Moot Court competition.
Thanks to one and all

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