SVKM'S NMIMS School Of Law: 2nd National Moot-Court Competition, 2023

The School of Law (SOL) at NMIMS offers students with prospective first-hand learning, allowing them to fully imbibe the knowledge of Law with exposure to Critical Thinking, Legal Writing, Moot Courts. The School of Law apart from this also promotes different extra-curricular and co-curricular activities in the form of various clubs and committees.

SVKM'S NMIMS School Of Law, Navi Mumbai is Organizing the 2nd National Moot-Court Competition, 2023

COMPETITION TIMELINE

Release of provisional registration: 1st march 2023 closing of registration: 18th march 2023

Last date to seek clarification: 20th march 2023

Release of clarification: 24th march 2023

Submission of memorials: 1st april 20223

Draw of lots, researcher's test and memorial exchange: 6th april 2023

Oral rounds( prelims and quaters): 7th april 2023

Semi final and finals and valedictory sessions : 8th april 2023

FORMATTING AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Memorial Structure: The Memorial must contain the following contents in the order as stated below:

i)Cover Page – The Cover Page must be BLUE for the Petitioner and RED for the Respondent.

A penalty of 1 (One) mark per side shall be levied in case the team uses the wrong cover page in their Memorial.

The Cover Page of the Memorial must contain the following information:

· The ‘team code’ in the top right corner

· The ‘name’ and ‘year’ of the Competition

· The name of the case (Case Title)

· The ‘side’ for which the Memorial has been prepared

· Name of the ‘forum’ resolving the dispute

ii)Table of Contents

iii)List of Abbreviations

iv)Index of Authorities: The Index of Authorities must list all the authorities cited in the Memorial.

v)Statement of Jurisdiction

vi)Statement of Facts: The Statement of Facts must contain a concise statement of the relevant facts to the dispute. As far as may be, the Statement of Facts should be limited to the stipulated facts and legitimate inferences which can be drawn from those facts. Statement of Facts shall not exceed 2 pages.

[Note: Non- compliance will result in a penalty of 1 mark for each exceeded page.]

i)Issues Raised: Issues shall be restricted to the ones mentioned in the Moot Proposition and no new issues shall be added by the teams.

ii)Summary of Arguments: The summary of arguments should contain a summary of the substance of the arguments, and should not merely be the production of the various headings and subheadings of arguments. The Summary of Arguments shall not exceed 2 pages.

[Note: Non-compliance will result in a penalty of 1 mark for each exceeded page.]

iii) Pleadings/Arguments Advanced: All legal arguments must be limited to the Pleadings/Arguments Advanced section of the Memorial. The Pleadings/Arguments Advanced must not exceed 20 pages.

[Note: Non- compliance will result in a penalty of 2 marks for each exceeded page.]

iv)Prayer: The Prayer shall not exceed 1 page.

Team Code: The team code must be ascribed to the top right corner of the cover page. The code must be succeeded by the side for which the Memorial is prepared. The teams must use “P” for Petitioner and “R” for Respondent. For instance, in the case of Team Code being TC-500,the team must write “TC-500P” in case of

Memorial for ‘Petitioner’ and “TC-500 R” in case of Memorial for ‘Respondent’. Margin: The Memorial must maintain an equal margin of 1 inch on all sides.

Basic compliance for Memorial: The Memorial (including the preliminary pages and excluding the cover page) shall adhere to the following mandatory specifications: Paper size: A4, Font type:

Times New Roman, Font size: 12, Line spacing: 1.5, Body of text: Justified.

[Note: Non-compliance will result in a penalty of 02 marks for each side of the written submission.]

Footnotes: The footnotes must be in font type: Times New Roman, Font size: 10, Line spacing:1.0, Paragraph spacing:0, no additional space between2 footnotes and body of text and Justified with a Uniform Style of Citation (Bluebook, 20th Edition)to be strictly followed throughout the Memorial.

[Note: Non-compliance will result in a penalty of 1 (One) mark per page.]

Header and Footer: The font used for the header/footer, if any, shall be Times New Roman, size 10 with single spacing.

PLATFORM - ZOOM

REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHjVIFebJQiQmpSm_-NPpSpwwnwtg7ftnXMfTIITbT5rXqCw/viewform?usp=sf_link

For more details, refer to the Competitional Manual here

CONTACT DETAILS

President- Soumya Sharma – 8954137388

Vice-President- Jahanvi Jain- 8989437976

General Secretary- Astitva Srivastava- 6392242099

Mail- moot.sol@nmims.edu.in