Judgement Writing Competition: Gujarat Law Society law college

About GLS

Gujarat Law Society (GLS) is a premier educational group, offering courses in multiple disciplines. GLS trust with superlative education began in 1927; almost 94 years back when a few visionaries stepped forward to transform the standards of education in the region.

The institute derived its inspiration from and was founded by such luminaries as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Shri Ganesh Mavlankar, the first Speaker of the country and Shri I.M. Nanavati with the vision of Excellence in Education. It was their foresight in the year 1927 that laid the foundation for an organization that has illuminated lacs of lives ever since.

About GLS University

GLS University has been established with the objective of providing an ideal and creative learning environment and continuing the tradition of excellence in the education of the sponsoring body of the University, viz., Gujarat Law Society (GLS) Gujarat Law Society, established in the year 1927, is one of the largest and oldest educational institutions in the State of Gujarat.

About Faculty of Law

Faculty of Law (FOL), constituent department of GLS University, is a premier destination for students interested in establishing a virtuous career in Law.

About the Competition

The Judgment Writing Competition, 2022 has been conceived with the aim to cultivate the art of writing judgments among students to push the students to write judgments. The students are given the feel of assuming the role of the judge.

The great strength of this contest is to engage the students with multi-tasking of both creative lawyering and innovative judging The judgment writing competition will have the following principles and purpose:

To develop a judicious mind
To apply legal concepts with a clarity of thought
To promote the spirit of the rule of law and justice
To interpret the law in a justifiable manner with a view to meet ends of justice

Important Dates

Release of Moot Proposition, Rules, and Commencement of Competition: January 20, 2022
Registration deadline: February 5, 2022
Last Date for seeking Clarifications: February 15, 2022
Last Date of Submission of Judgment: February 25, 2022
Declaration of result: March 8, 2022

Eligibility Criteria and Team Composition

The Competition shall be open to students who are pursuing an integrated 5-year LL.B. programme in India or pursuing a 3-year LL.B. programme in India

From each institute, only one team can represent the institute.

Provided in furtherance to the above clause, the first 24 teams shall be reckoned on basis of the final registration

Team Composition: Each team shall constitute of 2 members, under no condition shall a team consisting of more than 2 members be allowed to participate.

Registration

The participating institutions have to register by filling up the Google form (link has
been given below) on or before February 5, 2022 by 11:59 PM (IST)

Registration Fee

To confirm participation, teams of every Institution should register themselves with the Registration forms duly signed by the heads of the institution along with the fees of Rs. 500/-per team.

Fee Payment

The payment will be made through RTGS.

In Favour of: GLS Law College, HDFC Bank, NR Mithakhali Six Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
A/C NO.57500000018593
IFSC Code: HDFC0000006
MICE: 380240002

Submission Guidelines

It shall not exceed 2500 words (excluding authorities).
The write-up shall be in Times New Roman, Font size 12 and the line spacing 1.5.
Footnotes shall consist of size 10 and spacing of 1.
The team is required to cite authorities similar to Judgments of Court.
The write-ups shall have no plagiarism and should be an original work of participants.
The participant shall follow 20th Edition Blue Book Citation.
Teams shall not reveal their identity in any form, except by means of the Team Code allotted to them during the Competition.
The Written Submissions shall not reveal the identity of the team in any form and should not bear the logo, name etc. of the University represented.

Awards

Trophy to the Winning Team Cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-
Trophy to the First Runners up Team Cash prize of Rs. 5,000/-
Trophy to the Second Runners up Cash prize of Rs. 3,000/-
Certificate will be issued to all the participants

Contact details

Mail at: glslcjudgementwritting@gmail.com

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