[Live Updates] : 5th NLIU Justice R. K. Tankha Memorial International Arbitration Moot Court Competition

COURT ROOM-18

JUDGES- Sanjay Yadav, Debashree Sarkar

Team Code- 14

College- Law College Dehradun

Claimants

Speakers- 1)Krishna Rastogi
                 2) Rahul Kumar

Researcher- 1) Krishna Nigam
                      2)Parth Rishik

Team code- 21

NALSAR

Respondent

Speaker- 1) Mustafa Rajkotwala
                  2) Hrithwik Singh

Rsearchers- 1)Lakshaya Grover
                     2) Alina Jammat

The 2nd prelims have started, the counsels for the Respondents arguing first. With back to back questions from the judges, the counsels are trying their best to answer them all. After requesting a 30 seconds extension they've effectively presented their arguments which clearly shows the efforts put in by the team over the months.

Courtroom 13

Court room no. 13

Judges- Jomol Joy and Pragya Sharma

Teams-

Claimant- TC6 DES Law College

Speakers- Aditya Bendre, Aswathy Roy
Researcher- Shubhankar Malegaonkar and Aditya Moghe

Respondent- TC15 Christ University

Speakers- Abhirami. B, Ann Clara Tomy
Researcher- Divya Pinheiro

The judges are grilling the claimant with a barrage of questions. The judges asked them for a copy of their best authority about their argument on the dispute resolution centre. The claimant continuously argued over the stubborn approach of the respondent regarding their emails.

Court Room no. 15

The second speaker on the respondent's panel starts with her contentions. The judges point out that just because there's a date fixed in the contract doesn't mean that it is the essence of the agreement. The judge also stresses that the submissions cannot be used to back the contentions and a fact needs to be pointed out. The arguments are slowly heating up. The speaker refers to a case that completely supports her contention and the judges reply with a satisfactory nod.

Courtroom no. 21

Judges: Saubhagya Bhadkaria and Navshesh Kshetri

TC- 13: CLC Delhi

CLAIMANTS

S Vinayak

S Shubhangi

R Vivek

R Akansha

TC -2 : ILS, Pune

RESPONDENTS

S Tapan Radkar

S Advait Helekar

R Monica

R Trishalaa

The teams have decided amongst themselves that the Claimants will begin the proceedings and with that, the round has started with great enthusiasm!

Courtroom 15

Court room no: 15

Judges:

Sagnik Das

Srideepa Bhattachariyya

Teams:

Swing - NLIU - Claimant

19 - NUJS - Respondent

Speaker(s):

Syamantak and Sahil

Kavya Arora and Sakshi Sharma

Researcher(s):

Tejas Hinder

Varun Agarwal and Agniva Chakrabarty

The rounds started with an agreement about the change in speaking order. The respondents begin and the judges not convinced about the first contention ask the council to move on to the next one. The respondent successfully convinces the judges with the following contentions. The arbitration continues smoothly.

Court room no. 14

Judges- Akshay Sapre and Hita Kumar

Teams-

Claimant- T23 Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies

Respondent- TC4 SLS Pune

The second preliminary round has begun. The claimants are arguing over the dispute resolution clause being an overriding clause. The judges want clarification over whether the arbitration Institute mentioned in the contract is the present tribunal or not. The claimant are arguing over the intention of the parties to arbitrate.

12:30 pm- The second Prelim round has started.

With this, the first prelim rounds are over. The second prelim rounds will begin shortly!