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The CSI College for Legal Studies, Kottayam, will host a national contest to select the Indian contingent to the 21st Commonwealth Mooting Competition and Law Conference in Zambia.
The 2019 edition of the CLEA (Commonwealth Legal Education Association) Mooting (India Round), a biannual event, is being jointly organised by CLEA and the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association.
Oxford University Press defines ‘mooting’ as the oral presentation of a legal issue or problem against an opposing counsel and before a judge. It is the closest experience that a university student can have to appearing in court.
It is for the first time in the 48-year history of CLEA that the event has been given to a self-financing law college, that too in Kerala, an official spokesman said.
The two-day event will kick off on Saturday in the academic complex of the CSI College for Legal Studies. Sixty under-graduate law students selected from 900-odd law schools/ colleges in the country will vie for the top slot to represent the nation and claim the Commonwealth Shield (erstwhile Tribunal Shield).
George Joseph, Organising Secretary and Head of the host institution, said the competition aims to hone the lawyering and advocacy skills of the new generation of law students.
Winners will attend the Commonwealth Mooting and Law Conference to be held in Zambia in April, with students from the the UK, North America, Australia, Pacific Africa and Asia taking part.
The Kerala State Human Rights Commission Chairperson, Justice Antony Dominic, will inaugurate the CLEA Mooting (India Round) in Kottayam on Saturday.
Among the speakers at the event will be N.R. Madhava Menon, Founding Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Bengaluru; S Sivakumar, South Asia President, CLEA; Vikram Singh Arya, Secretary, CLEA, South Asia and Advocate of the Supreme Court of India; and Lisa P Lukose, event co-ordinator.
Loknath Behera, Director-General of Police, Kerala, will chair the valedictory session. Justice A Muhammed Mustaque, Judge of the High Court of Kerala, will give away the awards.
The Gujarat National Law University was the runner-up in the 20th edition of the event held in Melbourne in 2017, the spokesman said.
Launched in 2013, the CSI College for Legal Studies offers an integrated BA/BCom LLB (Hons) and LLM programme under the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
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