Moot Court and Internship (Practical-4)

Unit 1 — Moot Court Every student will do at least 3 (three) moot courts with 10 marks each. Each moot court work will be on assigned problem and it will be evaluated as follows:

1.1 Written submission : 5 marks · 1.2 Oral advocacy : 5 marks

• Study and analysis of Moot problems including issues involved
• Drafting of Moot Memorials/ Arguments
• Studying laws, rules and case laws for Moot Problems
• Moot — oral submissions

Unit 2 — Observance of Trial in two cases:

2.1 One Civil case : 15 marks · 2.2 One Criminal case : 15 marks Students in a group of not more than 10 (ten) students will attend two trials in thecourse of the last two or three years of law course. They will maintain a record and enter the various steps observed during their attendance on different days in the court assignment.

• Attending and Observing Trial proceedings — civil and criminal
• Writing brief report on proceedings attended

Unit 3 — Interviewing techniques and Pre-trial preparations

3.1 Two interviewing sessions of clients : 15 marks · 3.2 Observation of the preparation of Documents and court papers : 15 marks Each student will observe 2 (two) interviewing sessions of clients at the Lawyers‟ Office/ Legal Aid Office and record the proceedings in the diary which will carry 15 marks. Each student will further observe the preparation of documents and court papers by the Advocate and the procedure for the filing of the suit/petition. This will be recorded in the diary which will carry 15 marks. Viva Voce examination [on all the above three aspects] 10 Note 1: Written submissions on Moot Courts, Written Records of Observance of Trials in Courts and Written Diaries regarding Interviewing Techniques and Pre-trial preparations must be submitted to the teacher of this paper regularly and the teacher will evaluate those continuously throughout the semester and award marks. Note 2: All the evaluated works along with the list of marks awarded would be placed before the external examiner at the time of viva-voce examination. The teacher of this paper would be internal examiner who along with external examiner would jointly award final marks on the above works and viva-voce.