Moot — oral submissions

In a Mumbai local at nine in the morning you can convince a stranger to shift a seat, but only if you say the right thing in the first ten seconds and stop before he gets irritated. A moot bench is that stranger, with a stopwatch and a law degree. You have ten or fifteen minutes to persuade three people who will interrupt you. What do you say first, in what order, and what do you do when a judge asks a question you did not prepare?

In two minutes

Oral submissions are a short, structured argument: state your case in one sentence, make two or three submissions each built as proposition, authority and application, meet the bench's questions directly, and end with the prayer.

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