Moot Court and Internship

Unit all — Class room teaching / components (no units printed)

This paper will have three components of 30 marks each and a viva for 10 marks · A. Moot Court (30 Marks). Every student is required to do at least three moot courts in a year with 10 marks for each. The moot court work will be on assigned problem and it will be evaluated for 5 marks for written submissions and 5 marks for oral advocacy. · B. Observance of Trial in two cases, one Civil and one Criminal (30 marks): · Students are required to attend two trials in the course of the last two or three years of LL.B. studies. They will maintain a record and enter the various steps observed during their attendance on different days in the court assignment. This scheme will carry 30 marks. · C. Interviewing techniques and Pre-trial preparations and Internship diary (30 marks): Each student will observe two interviewing sessions of clients at the Lawyer‘s Office/Legal Aid Office and record the proceedings in a 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. · D. The fourth component of this paper will be Viva Voce examination on all the above three aspects. This will carry 10 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
• Attending and Observing Trial proceedings — civil and criminal
• Writing brief report on proceedings attended
• Internship at lawyer's office
• Internship details — daily dairy to be maintained, court attendance, Lawyer's /Firms certificate
• Viva Voce