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Kolkata team wins moot court contest

ENCOURAGEMENT: The winning team receiving a certificate from judges, G.S. Singhvi, K.S. Ahluwalia, Cyriac Joseph and V. Gopal Gowda, in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: If arbitration and counselling is the future of litigation, these soon-to-be lawyers got a preview into their future professional lives at India’s first International Arbitration Moot Court Competition here on Sunday.

Organised by National Law School of India University, the competition had participants from national and international law schools.

The team from National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, comprising Amrita Biswas, Rahul Chatterji, Sroyon Mukherjee and Smriti Bahety, won the trophy for the best team as well as the contest for the best legal brief or “Memorial”.

Defeating finalists Campus Law Centre, Delhi, at the two-day event, the team was questioned and judged by panel members K.S. Ahluwalia, judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court, V. Gopal Gowda, judge, Karnataka High Court, and G.S. Singhvi of the Supreme Court of India.

As many as 31 national and international teams participated in the first of its kind in the country. With teams from Colombo Law University and Warwick University, the international quotient was well represented.

“This was professional; the judging was excellent and so was the organisation. It is at par with international competitions,” says Rahul, who has previously participated in the moot court in Vienna.

The topic for this event was “Bilateral investment treaty arbitration” where a dispute arose because an investment made in a developing country has been treated unfairly.

“The problem required them to look at issues of jurisdiction of an arbitration tribunal, nationality, fair and equitable treaty, most favoured nation clause and expropriation,” said Debesh Panda, who is part of the organising committee.

Cyriac Joseph, Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka, encouraged students to think of ways to use their skills to provide public service through their profession.

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