New Delhi: As part of the celebration of the Legal services week from 8th -14th November 2021 and as part of the Pan India outreach and awareness campaign of NALSA, on 9th October 2021; South West District Legal Services Authority organized “Inter-College Moot Court Competition, Dwarka” in Collaboration with the Trinity Institute of Professional Studies, Dwarka.
Moot court competitions are an indispensable part of legal education and gives students an opportunity to sharpen research and advocacy skills in a simulated environment of a courtroom. The objective of the Inter-College Moot Court Competition was to involve law students and budding lawyers in DSLSA’S mission of “Access to Justice for All.”
South West- DLSA successfully organized the competition under the able guidance of Ms. Neha Priya, Ld. Secretary, South West DLSA. The Chief Guest for the competition was Sh. Kanwaljeet Arora, Ld. Member Secretary, DSLSA and Ms. Namrata Agarwal, Ld. Additional Secretary, DSLSA was the guest of Honour.
The competition consisted of three Preliminary rounds, in which each team gave stiff competition to the other two teams. The team from the Trinity Institute of Professional Studies and University school of law and legal studies, IP university made it to the Final Rounds. In the final rounds, a team from TIPS, Dwarka emerged as the winner of the Competition and the team from USLLS, IP University emerged as the Runner Up. The team from the Fairfield instate of Technology and management was also awarded with participation certificates.
The Best Speaker position was bagged by Mr. Yashdeep Lakra from USLLS, IP university and the best Memorial award went to the team from Trinity Institute of Professional Studies.
Sh. Yashvardhan, Advocate with robust experience and Sh. Anuj Bhandari, Advocate on record and partner in Pricus Legal judged the Preliminary Round of the Competition. The final round of the competition was judged by Sh. Gautam Manan, Special Secretary, DSLSA, Sh. Vaibhav Kakkar, Partner in the leading law firm, Saraf and Partners and Ms. Neha Priya, Ld. Secretary, South West DLSA.
Ms. Namrata Agarwal, Ld. Additional Secretary, DSLSA announced the results and Sh. Kanwal Jeet Arora, Ld. Member Secretary, DSLSA and Sh. Gautam Manan, Ld. Special Secretary, DSLSA gave away the prizes to the winning team.