Certificate Course in Advanced Civil Litigation: Practice, Procedure and Drafting

What will you learn?

 Get exposure to strategic and drafting work in connection with civil cases 
 Learn how to handle the entire process from dealing with notices, temporary injunctions
and other interlocutory orders to defending false cases
 Learn how to collect evidence for your case and how to present them right
 Learn about new and emerging areas in civil law practice
 Understand various aspects of client and case management
 Get comprehensive practical knowledge of civil law from experienced civil lawyers
 Learn how to act on behalf of large corporations in civil matters 
 Learn how to set up and manage your own civil law practice
 Apart from statutory knowledge, develop strategic thinking 
 Draft various documents, petitions, applications until you are conversant with each 
 Step-by-step walkthrough of civil trial and other proceedings 
 Learn about important civil tribunals and special courts
 Learn how to conduct cross-examination
 New amendments, cases and ongoing controversies

Specific Learning Objectives

 Learn what are the various stages of a civil suit
 Learn basics about legal notices and how to draft them
 Learn how to draft reply to legal notices
 Learn about the functioning of the courts and their machinery
 Learn how to identify the jurisdiction of the courts to try specific matters
 Learn how to establish a cause of action
 Learn about appointment and authorisation of representatives
 Learn who can be appointed as representatives and when?
 Learn how corporate entities appoint their representatives and how do they function
 Learn how to read various abbreviations, tagging and nomenclature of various petitions
etc. by the courts
 Learn about the procedure of the High Courts
 How to save your client in different kinds of situations and strategies to deploy
 Learn how to draft plaints
 Learn how to make parties to the suit, misjoinder and non-joinder of the necessary and
proper parties
 Learn how to amend your pleadings when you make any error
 Learn how to file a suit even after the limitation has expired
 Learn how to calculate court fees
 Learn all you need to know about reliefs you can claim in your plaints
 All you need to know about formatting principles and rules 
 Learn how commissioners are appointed and who can be appointed as commissioners 
 How to draft an application for the appointment of a commissioner for various reasons
 All you need to know to draft an application for the appointment of a receiver 
 Learn about essentials to draft application of temporary injunction 
 Learn all about perpetual and mandatory injunctions and how to draft them
 How to calculate and claim monetary reliefs 
 How to claim various reliefs under the Specific Relief Act
 Learn to draft written statements
 All you need to know about claiming set off and counterclaim
 Learn to calculate limitation for various suits and applications
 All you need to know about service of process of court
 When your plaint and applications can be rejected?
 How to draft an application under Order 7 Rule 11 for rejection of the plaint
 How and who can be added and removed as a party to the suit
 How to draft an application for adding or removal of a party to the suit under Order 1
Rule 10 of CPC 
 Learn how and when a person can be appointed as a representative on behalf of several
persons in a suit
 Drafting an application for appointment as a representative
 When and how to apply for setting aside an ex-parte decree?
 How to draft an application for setting aside an ex-parte decree
 How and on which stages you can apply for amendment of the pleadings?
 How to draft an application for amendment of pleadings that cannot be rejected by the
court 
 All you need to know about the procedure when a person, party or witness does not
appear in the court?
 All you need to know about the attachment of the property of a witness
 All you need to know about the attachment of the property of a party to the suit
 When a person can be arrested in a civil court and the procedure involved? How is it
different from arrest in criminal matters? 
 Power of a civil court to review its own judgement 
 How and when you can apply for revision, and to which court 
 How to submit evidence in the court 
 Evidentiary value of primary, secondary, hearsay, documentary, oral and electronic
evidence 
 How to establish a fact in the evidence stage 
 Circumstances when courts can accept and reject evidence 
 The burden of proof and standard of proof 
 How to conduct examination-in-chief 
 How to conduct cross-examination 
 All you need to know about the first appeal, second appeal and appealable orders 
 How to draft a civil appeal 
 Learn all about the execution of the decree of the court 
 How to initiate proceedings under the Negotiable Instruments Act 
 How to create an effective litigation strategy 
  How to avoid common drafting and filing-related errors
 How to liaise effectively with senior counsel, local counsel and legal counsel in special
forums to expand your legal work 
 What is the difference between the procedure of the courts in civil matters related to
individuals and statutory bodies like companies 
 How to get a matter settled 
 Pricing and billing strategies
 Ethical questions and morals for civil practice 
 Learn about standard objections and objection removals 
 Learn how to deal with the court clerk, readers, alhamads, etc.
 Learn about various consumer forums and their pecuniary and territorial jurisdiction 
 Understand how to choose the most appropriate consumer forum for your particular
matter
 Get acquainted with the procedure of the consumer forums 
 Learn basics about consumer complaints and how to draft them 
 How to respond if someone has filed a consumer complaint against you 
 Learn about what kind of information can be taken using the Right to Information Act 
 Understand who will be eligible to request information under the Right to Information
Act 
 Know when a department is bound to give information and when it is not 
 Learn how to draft an effective RTI application 
 Learn about actions that can be taken when you are not getting information under the
Right to Information Act

Recruitment and Internship Support

We are the only organization in India that teach this kind of comprehensive civil law course.
Many employers, lawyers and law firms are happy to recruit our high performing students. If you
do well in your exercises and classes, we can help you to get jobs, internships and assessment
internships in good law firms, with renowned lawyers as well as in various companies.

List of Weekly Exercises

 Draft a legal notice
 Draft a response to a legal notice
 Determine preliminary aspects of case filing such as the value of suit and court fee
 Draft prayers for each of the following:

a. Declaratory relief, e.g. declaration of title

b. Mandatory Injunction

c. Eviction
 d. Breach of contract/ Recovery of money/ damages/ compensation for breach of
contract

e. Partition

 Draft a plaint for any one of the following:

a. Declaratory relief, e.g. declaration of title

b. Mandatory Injunction

c. Eviction (property dispute)

d. Breach of contract/ Recovery of money/ damages/ compensation

e. Breach of confidentiality

f. Partition

g. IP Infringement Suit (for copyright & trademark)

 Draft a written statement

 Add a Set-Off/ Counter-claim
 Draft an application for a temporary injunction (including ex-parte injunction)
 Draft a response to an application for a temporary injunction
 How to draft application for vacation of temporary injunction
 How to draft an application for revision against (or refusal to grant) a temporary
injunction
 How to draft an appeal/ revision against (or refusal to grant) an interim order
 How to draft application for Representative Suits (Order 1, Rule 8)
 How to draft application for Addition or Substitution of Parties (Order 1, Rule 10)
 How to draft application for Amendment of Pleadings (Order 6, Rule 17)
 How to draft application for Setting Aside Ex Parte Decree (Order 9, Rule 13)
 How to draft application for Rejection of Plaint (Order 7, Rule 11)
 Draft notice for admission or denial of facts and documents
 Draft an affidavit for documents for admission/denial
 Draft a reply to an affidavit for documents for admission/denial
 Prepare a list of witnesses
 Prepare interrogatories
 How to get call detail records (CDR) or data from Facebook, Google and other data
available with third parties (ISPs, phone providers)
 Prepare questionnaire for examination of chief and cross-examination of a particular
witness
 How to inspect or obtain copies of books of accounts, etc.
 Frame an argument on a point of law based on case research
  Prepare a note for your own final arguments (based on a given fact situation where
evidence has been adduced on record)
 Draft an execution petition
 Draft the first appeal
 Draft a second appeal
 Draft a revision petition
 Draft a review petition
 Draft an application u/s 138 NI Act
 Draft a complaint under the NI Act
 Prepare a litigation strategy for a client who wants compensation
 Prepare an invoice with terms of payment
 Draft a caveat
 Prepare a legal opinion advising a client on the legal validity of a particular action and
consequences if the law is violated
 Draft an IBC notice
 Draft a consumer complaint to the district forum
 Draft a response to a consumer complaint
 Draft an application seeking information from a government department under the RTI
Act
 Draft an appeal against an order refusing to grant information asked under RTI Act
 Article writing and publishing exercises
 A career building and networking exercises
 Exercises on How to inspect documents
 Exercise on How to draft an application for submission of secondary evidence
 How to draft a notice under the NI Act
 Exercise on How to seek attachment of moveables without the issuance of notice (Order
21 Rule 22 of CPC)
 Exercises on drafting an interlocutory application for attachment of immovable property
(Order 21 Rule 54) and sale of immovable property (Order 21 Rule 64) 
 Exercises on drafting a legal opinion on preliminary steps prior to filing a suit and
drafting a board resolution to institute a suit on behalf of a Company 
 Exercises on  drafting a demand notice on behalf of operational creditors and how to file
an application for initiating a corporate insolvency resolution process by an operational
creditor

* You will be given 2 exercises every week. Only 18 exercises will be discussed in class. You
need to perform 18 out of the above exercises and 6 writing assignments to pass the course.