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National PIL Drafting Competition Providing a Raising Platform to Law Students & Professionals
04 Jun 2021
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Title: National PIL Drafting Competition Providing a Raising Platform to Law Students & Professionals
Description: An online National PIL Drafting Competition is framed for Law Students and professionals by the Faculty of Juridical Sciences, Rama University, Kanpur.
Main Content: Faculty of Juridical Sciences, Rama University, Kanpur is organizing National PIL Drafting Competition. The competition is open only for law students and legal professionals. This is an online competition. All the entries shall be submitted in the registration form itself. The further details of this competition are mentioned below.
Event- National PIL Drafting Competition 2021
Mode- Online
Registration Opens- 1th July 2021
Registration Closes- 15th July 2021
Assignment of Team Codes- 30th July 2021
Submission of PIL drafts (Last Date)- 10th August 2021
Declaration of results- 20th August July 2021
Registration Fee- Free to all
Language- The language of the competition shall be English
Eligibility
- The Competition shall be open for the students currently pursuing their bachelor’s degree in law i.e., 3-Year LL.B. course or 5-Year LL.B. course from any recognized university/college in India.
- There is no restriction on the number of entries from any college or university.
- Any Legal Professional
- A person can submit only one entry. Multiple entries will amount to disqualification.
Team Composition:
- Individual Participation, as well as Participation in a team of two, is allowed.
- Participants from two different universities can form a team.
- ThesubstitutionofanyTeamMemberisnotallowedaftertheregistrationdeadlineexcept in some extra ordinary circumstances and only with permission of the Organizer.
Registration Process:
- The participating teams can register themselves by filling this Registration Form click here
- After the successful registration, each participant or team shall be allotted a unique team code for further references.
Anonymity:
Participants shall not disclose their names and the identity of their respective college/institute/organizationatanytimebeforetheannouncementofresults.Theindividualcode or the team code shall be the sole source of identity of the respective teams throughout the competition. Any disclosure against this rule shall invite penalty including disqualification.
Rewards:
- The participants are securing the first three positions, i.e., First, Second and Third shall be felicitated with the certificate of appreciation.
- Certificate of participation for all participants.
Queries:
- All the queries and clarifications must be sent to the official mail ID of the organizers, i.e., anjali.fjs@ramauniversity.ac.in, and the subject of the mail must read as ‘PIL Competition Query.’
- No query without the subject ‘PIL Competition Query’ would be entertained.
- Only queries sent through mail shall be entertained.
Submission Guidelines:
The topic of PIL: Submit the PIL draft on “Violation of health right during the COVID 19”.
Submission of PIL Drafts:
- Each Participating Team must submit ONE PIL draft.
- Suppose a participant/team wishes to submit any annexure to support this / her argument in the Draft [for instance, Reports, Commentaries, News Clippings, Pictures, etc.]. In that case, all the relevant annexure must be compendium be prepared. It should be sent along with the draft.
- All PIL drafts must be sent to the email address anjali.fjs@ramauniversity.ac.inuntil 10th August 2021 mid-night with the email Subject as “PIL Draft, Team Code_”·any submission with any name reference of the participant will be disqualified.
- Plagiarism shall amount to disqualification; therefore, the Participants must not submit plagiarized content.
Formatting Guidelines:
- All the drafts must be submitted in PDF Format (.pdf).·
- The body of the submissions must be in the font Times New Roman with font size12, with line spacing of 1.5 and justified. The Font size for the Headings is Times New Roman font size14.
- The Footnotes shall be in Times New Roman, size 10, single line spacing, justified.
- Authorities shall be cited as per the 20th edition of the bluebook.
- No restriction as to the number of pages
Content of the PIL:
The PIL is to be filed before the Supreme Court of India. ·
The PIL Memorial must contain all of, and only, the following components:
The Cover page should contain:
- The team code in the upper right-hand corner
- Table of contents
- Table of abbreviations
- Index of authorities
- Statement of jurisdiction
- Facts of the case
- Summary of arguments/Pleadings
- Arguments Advanced/Pleadings
- Prayer
- Table of Annexure
Marks Distribution
- Knowledge of Law and Facts of the Proposition-20
- Proper and Articulate Analysis -20
- Extent and Use of Research -20
- Clarity and Organization -20
- Grammar and Style of Writing- 10
- Correct format and Citation style -10
- TOTAL 100
Organized by- Faculty of Juridical Sciences, Rama University, Kanpur
Co-ordinators-
- Dr. Shiv Kumar Tripathi
- Ms. Anjali Dixit
Organizing Committee-
- Dr. Praveen Kr. Mall(HOD)
- Dr. Ravikant Gupta
- Mr. JP Srivastava
- Dr. Inderjeet Kaur
- Dr. Sadhna Trivedi
- Dr. Sachin Goel
Student Coordinator
- Anchal Tripathi (BALLB 10th)
- Shashank Shekhar (BLLB 10th Semester)