Court Room No. 16

JUDGES: Gaurav Sharma, Prakhar Deep

PETITIONER:

T10/DSNLU

Speakers: Muskan Jain, Navya; Researcher: Tejaswi

RESPONDENT:

T34/JGLS

Speakers: Andal Seshadri, Sagarika Kaul; Researcher: Ena Kapur

“No. Incorrect,” proclaim the judges at the arguments attempted by the speaker.

With their buttoned collars and heads held high, the teams had seemed quite confident when the round had commenced. But in the next few minutes, the parties migrated between a confident stance and a hesitant one, a tranquil one and a perturbed one, a collected one and a ruffled one, a composed one and a fumbling one in response to the ruthless questioning conducted by the judges.

Amusingly, the respondents seemed bewildered over their appropriate response - relieved that it wasn’t them or concerned that in exactly twenty minutes, it is going to be them.

In the face of the steady queries and unremitting requests for authorities presented by the judges, the teams better buckle in because making it to the next round of the 5th NLIU Tankha International Arbitration Moot may not be as easy as it seems.