RULES FOR THE INTRA UNIVERSITY MOOT COURT COMPETITION

1. The Intra University Moot Court Competition, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the
IUMCC) is a qualifying competition to select individuals who shall be allowed to
represent the University in all national and international moot court competitions till the
next IUMCC is conducted.
2. The IUMCC shall be conducted by the Core/Co-opted Committee (hereinafter referred
to as the CC) which shall consist of the non-participating members of MCC and such
other members as will be subsequently notified.

3. Registration and participation:

3.1. The students willing to participate in the IUMCC have to register themselves in
teams of two, both appearing as the speakers. However, for purposes of ranking and
qualification, participants shall be marked individually. The details and procedure of
registration shall be notified by the CC in due course.
3.2. All registered participants shall be allotted a registration code by the Organizers. The
participating teams are requested to maintain utmost anonymity throughout the
competition and for purposes of submission of memorials. Each participating team
will thus be identified by means of the Code.

4. Format of the moot court:

4.1 The IUMCC, 2016 shall consist of preliminary, quarter final, semi-final and final
rounds. Thus the schedule for the oral rounds shall be as follows:
Preliminary Rounds/qualifier rounds:
Preliminary Round 1
Preliminary Round 21
Ranking Rounds:
Round of 642 (based on scores secured in the preliminary rounds only)
Quarter finals
Semi-finals
Finals

1 Subject to change depending on the total number of registered teams.

2 Subject to change depending on the total number of registered teams.
 4.2 During the preliminary rounds, the participants shall have to appear and argue in
teams of two. For all subsequent rounds, the participants have to argue
individually.
4.3 The matching of teams/individuals will be decided by a draw of lots prior to the
commencement of the competition.
4.4 For purposes of the preliminary round, each team will have the opportunity to
argue both sides. However for the purposes of subsequent rounds, each
participant shall argue only from one side, which will be decided by a draw of
lots.
4.5 For the purposes of the preliminary rounds, each team shall be given a minimum
of 10 minutes to present their side. However, subject to discretion of the judges,
a team may be given maximum of two minutes time for rebuttal and sur-rebuttal.
4.6 For the purposes of the subsequent rounds, each participant shall be given a
minimum of 15 minutes to present their side.
4.7 A team shall not be allowed to use a laptop or any other electronic device during
the oral rounds.
5. Submission of Memorials:
5.1 All registered teams have to submit their memorials from both the sides i.e.
Plaintiff/Claimant and Defendant/Respondent.
5.2 The memorials should contain no means/indications of identification apart from
the Code allotted to the participants. In any discrepancy or any attempt to
disclose identity by any team or participant is noticed by the organizers, the
registration of the participant shall be cancelled.
5.3 The other details regarding submission of memorials shall be notified
subsequently.

6. Marking and Rank List:

6.1 Each participant will be marked on a scale of 200 with 100 marks for the
memorials and 100 marks for the oral rounds.3

3 For instance, if an individual/participant of a team gets 50 in the oral rounds and another individual/participant of
the same team gets 90 in the oral rounds and the team gets 30 in the memorials, then the total scores of each of the
individuals will be 80/200 (50+30) and 120/200 (90+30) respectively.
 6.2 After the completion of all the rounds, a consolidated rank list based on
individual marks from all the qualifying oral rounds and memorial marks will be
published.
6.3 The consolidated rank list will be categorized into 3 lists- List of speakers; list of
researchers; list of participants.
6.4 The list of speakers shall consist of participants who have obtained a rank within
the range of 1-64 in the consolidated rank list. Similarly, the list of researchers
shall consist of participants who have obtained a rank within the range of 65-90
in the consolidated rank list. All other participants will be categorized under the
list of participants.4
7. Allocation of moots:
7.1 Allotment of moots shall take place as and when a moot is notified by the MCC
(Moot Court Committee). All the participants listed under the List of speakers
have the privilege of appearing either as a Speaker or as a Researcher and also
choosing members from within the List of speakers or list of researchers.
7.2 All the participants listed under the List of Researchers will be qualified only to
become researchers and accompany the speakers from the List of speakers. Only
in case, a moot is not preferred by anyone in the List of Speakers, the participants
from the List of Researchers are eligible to participate as speakers.
7.3 Further, in case of any moot that is not taken up by any participant in the
abovementioned lists, individuals from the list of participants are allowed to form
a team among themselves.
7.4 Therefore, those who do not participate in the IUMCC may not be eligible to
represent the University till the IUMCC for the next academic year is conducted.

8. Awards:
On the basis of the consolidated rank list, the following citations shall be awarded on the
participants:
(i) Best Team: the team with the highest total score (oral and memorial scores) in
the preliminary rounds.
(ii) Winner: the individual who obtains the first rank in the consolidated rank list.
(iii) Runners up: the individual who obtains the second rank in the consolidated rank
list.

4 The range will be subject to change depending upon the number of registrations.
(iv) Best memorial: the team which obtains the highest score in the memorials.
(v) Best young advocate: a participant from the 1st year who reaches the highest
round or scores the highest in a round from amongst all 1st year students.