The 5yr Law Students of
University of Allahabad brought laurels to the city by winning All India Moot
Court Competition held at University Law College Bangalore.Moot Court basically
means a mock court set up with case being taken up. It is the oral presentation
of a legal issue or problem against an opposing counsel and before a judge. Moot court does not involve actual testimony by witnesses
or the presentation of evidence, but is focused solely on the application of
the law to a common set of evidentiary assumptions to which the competitors
must be introduced.
The participants included
Taniya Pandey and Shreya Gupta as speakers and Karan Kapoor as the researcher.
In the final round they had to compete with National Law Univesity Jodhpur.
There were altogether 32 teams participating in the competiton from all across
India which inluded pretigious Law Schools like Symbiosis law School,Pune,
PGLC,Mumbai and Rizvi Law College Mumbai. The moot problem was based on
Constitutional law and the participants did expremely well.The competition was
presided over by the judges of Karnataka High Court Justice Ram Mohan Reddy and
Justice G Ramesh.
Law is one of the most
sought after career option among today youth and infact Ms Taniya Panday and Ms
Shreya Gupta both ex students of Career Launcher Allahabad were quite elated
with this opportunity and gave due credit to University of Allahabad for
providing them platform of this level.Career launcher Allahabad under the able
guidance of Mr Gaurav Agrawal started off with CLAT preparatory classes since
2005 and has produced many able lawyers., Just two months back even CL
Allahabad organised a similar kind of competition and it was highly appreciated
by the students as it provided a glimpse of the actual law court.