DECCAN EDUCATION SOCIETY’S

SHRI NAVALMAL FIRODIA LAW COLLEGE PUNE

Presents
INTRA MOOT COURT COMPETITION 2022
Organised by the
MOOT COURT SOCIETY

RULES FOR THE INTRA MOOT COURT COMPETITION

On the basis of the moot problem provided, participants shall prepare a memorial either for
the Appellant or for the Respondent and shall argue on behalf of the side they have prepared
the memorial for.

CONDUCT OF THE COMPETITION

The Competition shall be conducted physically in the college campus.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The Competition is open for the students of the college. For Intra students from 3rd, 4th and 5th
year BALLB, 3rd and 4th year BBALLB and 2nd and 3rd year LLB can participate. Existing
MCS members, if interested to continue their membership, should appear for the auditions.

FORMAT OF THE ROUNDS

In the Oral Round, each participant shall speak either for the Appellant or for the Respondent,
depending upon the side they have prepared the memorial from. Each participant shall be
judged by a panel of judges as decided by the MCS committee.

ORAL ROUNDS
The oral rounds shall be held on 12th November 2022.
The language of the court shall be English.
Each speaker shall be given 8 minutes to advance their arguments. An additional 2 minutes
shall be provided to each participant to answer questions posed by the judges. However, the
judges may use their discretion to extend the time limit further.
Participants are expected to carry with themselves copies, all the authorities on which they
intend to rely in the course of their arguments. During the course of the oral rounds, no
participant shall be allowed to submit to the judges, any material containing a
pictorial/audio/visual representation, except that material which forms part of the Paper Book
for Civil Appeal. No use of electronic devices will be permitted.
MEMORIAL ROUND
Each team must submit the physical hard copies of the Memorials for the Appellant or the
Respondent by 8th November 2022 to the Moot Court Society Faculty Co-ordinator Asst.
Prof. Kaveri Deo. The authorities shall acknowledge the receipt of those memorials submitted
by students. Memorials submitted after the deadline for submission shall incur a deduction of
one mark per day.
Participants shall adhere to the following requirements while submitting their Memorials:
 The language of written pleadings in the Memorials shall be English.
 The text of the main body of the Memorial must be in Times New Roman, font size
12, with 1.5 line spacing.
 The text of the footnotes (if any) must be in Times New Roman, font Size 10, single
line spacing. A uniform method of citation of Authorities must be used preferably
Blue-Book.
 Each page must have a margin of 1 inch (2.54 cm) from all sides. The Total page
count of the Memorials must not exceed 20 pages (including the cover page).
 The cover page of every memorial should adhere to the following Colour scheme:
Blue for Appellant Memorial and Red for Respondent Memorial.
 Every Memorial shall consist of the following pages:
 Cover Page:
1. Name of the participant, Class, Divisions and Roll Number.
2. The name and year of the competition.
3. The case title, number and year of Appeal.
4. The party/side for which the Memorial has been prepared.
5. The name of the Court/Tribunal hearing the Appeal.
6. Team code at the right upper corner which will be allotted by the organisers.
 Table of Contents.
 Index of Authorities.
 Statement of Jurisdiction.
 Statement of Facts (not exceeding 2pages).
 Statement of Issues.
 Summary of Arguments (not exceeding 3pages).
 Arguments Advanced.
 Prayer.

Failure to adhere to the aforementioned memorial pattern shall attract negative marking.
There shall be a deduction of one mark for every page exceeding the set limit of 20 pages.

MARKING CRITERIA
MEMORIALS
Every Memorial shall be scored out of a total of 40 marks. The Memorials shall be evaluated
based on the following criteria:
• Research and analysis (10 marks)
• Clear and persuasive writing (10 marks)
• Use of authorities and precedents (10 marks)
• Adherence to the given format (10 marks)

ORAL ROUNDS
Every Speaker shall be scored out of a total of 60 marks. Every Speaker shall be evaluated
based
on the following criteria:
• Clarity of facts and procedure (20 marks)
• Articulation, structure and content of argument (20marks)
• Use of authorities (10 marks)
• Advocacy skills and court etiquette (10 marks)

DRESS CODE
All participants must wear black and white formal attire prescribed as follows:
Men must be dressed in Western formal attire, i.e. white shirt, black Trousers, black blazer
and black tie. Women must be dressed in Western formal attire, i.e. white shirt, Black
trousers and a black blazer, or Indian formal attire, i.e. white Kurti, black leggings and a
black blazer. All participants are required to adhere to the aforementioned dress code while
participating in or being audience to any round of the competition.

MISCELLANEOUS
1. No participant shall indulge in any act of misconduct during oral arguments,
undermining the credibility of judges or that of the competition. Any act to the
contrary may lead to immediate disqualification from the competition without scope
of appeal.

2. No team shall try to disclose their identity or ask the Judges of their identities, if the
team is found violating this rule, strict actions will be taken by the Co-ordinators of
the Competition.

3. Any behaviour of indiscipline with the coordinators or any other staff member or
student volunteer shall be dealt with strictly and may lead to immediate
disqualification from the competition without scope of appeal.

4. No team shall ask for feedback immediately on completion of any round. However, at
the end of all the rounds the participants may talk to the judges, with minimum
inconvenience caused to them.

5. Any attempt to approach the framer of the moot problem or the panel of judges of the
competition, prior to the competition shall be dealt with strictly and may lead to
immediate disqualification from the competition without scope of appeal.
6. The organising committee reserves the right to amend, modify or re peal any of the
rules if so required and as they deem appropriate. Participating teams shall receive
adequate notice of any/all such amendments or modifications to the rules.
7. If anything, not covered by rules the decision of organising committee will be
binding.

8. No participant is allowed to use mobile phones during any of the oral rounds, for the
purposes of research, phone call, texting, or any other purposes.

9. These rules are not exhaustive and the organisers reserve the right to modify/alter/
repeal any rules contain herein, for which a prior notice shall be given to the
participants.
 MOOT PROPOSITION

1. Mr. A and Ms. B got married in January 2015. Both of them were working in
MultiNational Companies at the time of their marriage. Mr. A was the CEO of his
company at Mumbai and lived in the posh locality. Ms. B was working as a manager
in Pune. She however had to leave her job as she had to shift to Mumbai with Mr. A
and his family. Marriage was performed as per Hindu rites in the presence of their
families.

2. In August 2016, Ms. B got a lucrative job offer which she had to refuse because Mr.
A was not in favour of her going out to work during her pregnancy. She was quite
unhappy with this decision of Mr. A and felt frustrated. In March 2017, the couple
was blessed with a daughter. Mr. A and his family were not very happy with the birth
of a girl child named Ms. C. s

3. Mr. A was very busy in his work and was unable to give time to his family. He would
stay out of the house for long hours and would also travel out of the city for work. Ms.
B found him talking secretly no. of times with his secretary on the phone. Ms. M is
Mr. A’s secretary and was working in Mr. As Company for a decade and she was
committed to her work. Ms. B tried to read Ms. M and Mr. A’s what’s app chat
regarding the meetings organised in the evening. Often when Ms. B would call on Mr.
As mobile phone, Ms. M would answer. Mr. A and Ms. B had regular fights because
of this.

4. Ms. B started looking for a job as their daughter grew few months old but Mr. A
insisted that she should stay at home and look after her daughter. Ms. B was not
happy because of Mr. As behaviour and she shared it with her parents on several
occasions. But her parents would ask her to adjust. She lost interest in all the daily
activities. She was constantly looking for Mr. As attention but he was very busy with
his work as he was appointed as the Vice President of the National Board of
Industries.

5. One evening in June 2021 Mr. A had a meeting with his client. Ms. B had
apprehension that Mr. A was going with Ms. M and that it was not an official
meeting. She kept waiting for him to come back home and called him several times,
he did not answer. Mr. A came back home around 2:00 AM. On his coming back Mr.
A and Ms. B had an ugly fight.
6. Ms. B got fed up and left the house and took their daughter with her. Her parents were
upset in seeing her condition and tried to console her. After seeing her condition for a
couple of days her parents approached Mr. Y, a Counsellor whom they consulted
earlier for Ms. B.

7. Ms. B was initially reluctant to share things with Mr. Y who made her comfortable
and made her understand that whatever conversation they have, that would be
confidential. She opened up to Mr. Y about her matrimonial life and her relationship
with Mr. A. She told Mr. Y that she was an ambitious and bubbly girl before she got
married. Ms. B visited Mr. Y’s clinic regularly. With the passage of time, Ms. B
started showing improvement in her behaviour. There were a lot of instances where
Mr. Y would visit Ms. B at her home just to check whether she was doing fine. He too
started liking spending time with her.

8. Ms. B’s parents being of a conservative mindset convinced Ms. B to give another
chance to her marriage and insisted that she should go back to her husband. After
much persuasion from her parents, she decided to go back. Mr. Y went silent on
hearing about Ms. Bs decision of going back to Mr. As place.

9. Once she got back, initially things between them were fine. With time Mr. A again
started coming back home late. He was very busy. Ms. B was really upset and shared
everything with Mr. Y. She would talk to Mr. Y quiet often during the day. In the
presence of Mr. A, Ms. B would disconnect the call. On many occasions Mr. A
secretly snooped through her phone. He found majority of the calls received and
dialled were from and to Mr. Y. Mr. A confronted Ms. B and she clarified that Mr. Y
was just a friend and on the other hand she blamed Mr. A that he was involved with
Ms. M.

10. In November 2021 Mr. Y was in Delhi to attend a Conference so he visited Ms. B’s
house. Ms. B felt happy and enjoyed spending time with him. Ms. B also started
going out of the house for long hours. Mr. Y took good care of her and helped her in
overcoming the problems she was facing in her present life. One day Mr. A came
home and found Mr. Y at his house. Ms. B introduced Mr. Y as her friend to Mr. A.
Mr. A found out from the talk that Mr. Y visited his house earlier also. His daughter
Ms. C told her father “That tell uncle to go back.”

11. Both Mr. A and Ms. B had a big fight and in a fit of anger Mr. A asked Ms. B to
choose between him and Mr. Y. On keeping quiet, he forcibly threw her out of the
house and said never come back ever. Ms. B left the house with her daughter. Ms. Bs
parents called Mr. A to amicably settle the matter but he refused point blank. When
Mr. Y got to know that Ms. B is back at her parents’ house, he offered her to join his
 hospital as Floor Manager knowing Ms. B always wanted to be a financially
independent woman.

12. After coming back to her parent’s house, she got to know about her pregnancy. She
immediately called Mr. A to share the good news with him. Mr. A denied being the
father of the child. Whereas Ms. B insisted that Mr. A was the father of the child. Mr.
A files for Divorce at Family Court Mumbai in January 2022 on the grounds of
Adultery and also asks for the custody of his daughter. Ms. B denies this and files of
Restitution of Conjugal Rights and Interim Maintenance.

Argue from any one side.