Meaning and Objects of

Moot Court
Unit-I
Moot Court: General introduction
Meaning of Moot Court
A Moot Court is an artificial Court designed to
debate on a specific case decided by a Court of Law,
or an imaginary case prepared for the purpose of
practical training of law-students.
Other related Connotations
According to Chamber’s Dictionary “Moot” means -
to propose for discussion, to discuss, to argue for
practice.

In Oxford University’s English Dictionary the term

“Moot” has been explained to mean an assembly of
law-students for discussion of hypothetical cases for
practice.
Moot is an Assembly
Moot is an assembly to discuss a moot point, a
question, a matter about which there may be
disagreement or uncertainty.
In this way, the term “moot” does not
indicate any sense of imitation or copying. It actually
means discussion of some matter, question or
problem by law students.
Mootable: Meaning
The term “mootable” means “that which can be
mooted or debated in moot court hall, a meeting or
Court for arguing supposed cases.”
Purpose: To Provide Opportunities to
students
The purpose of organising moot courts is to provide
opportunities to law-students to equip them with the
skill for participation in the proceedings of a court of
law when they enter in law-profession after obtaining
the degree of Bachelor of Laws from a University.
Through the means of Moot Courts, the law-
students get the opportunity of drafting plaints,
preparing written statements and points of arguments
for framing issues and charges.
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Besides these, moot courts are meant to prepare law-
students to debate and discuss social problems from
the point of view of reforms for suggesting the
Government to legislate legal provisions for the
benefit of the society and also to eradicate certain
malpractices which are still prevalent in custom-
ridden social structure of our country.
Some Important Objects and Purposes of
conducting Moot Courts in Law
1. Participation in Moot Courts helps to cultivate
self possession, fluency, clarity of enunciation,
practice of court procedure, experience in the art
of persuasion and presenting cases.
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2. The law-students develop self-confidence to speak frankly
and freely before the audience when they attend the courts.
3. Moot Courts imparts occasions to law students to gain
knowledge and experience of examination and cross-
examination of witnesses.
4. Moot courts aim at providing practical training of court-
practice i.e. preparation of brief and actual argument of law
points involved in the cases.
5. Moot Courts emphasise points of court craft and decorum.
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6. Moot Courts give opportunity to law students to employ
their originality of thought and work in the analysis of facts,
framing of issues, finding out the law, applying them to the
facts, preparing arguments and presenting them before the
court.
7. Moot Court provide opportunity to law students to
follow the court procedure and to conduct and observe
professional-ethics in advocacy. Contd…..
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8. Moot Court provide opportunity even to those law-
students who are not attending the Moot Courts to work as
amicus curiae for the court.
9. Through moot courts, law-students get opportunity to
become counsels for the plaintiff and defendants on
different occasions, besides they get opportunity of
conducting cases as judges of moot courts. In this way, law
students participate in 3 different capacities in moot courts
i.e. as counsel for the plaintiff, counsel for the defendant and
the judge of the moot court. They get knowledge and
experience of presenting cases, defending the other sides,
besides writing judgment in the conduct of moot-courts.