The course aims at developing essential advocacy and drafting skills. It trains students in dispute settlement and adversarial process enabling them to analyze legal disputes, determine cause of action and legal issues, conduct legal research, draft skeleton arguments and memorials, compile authorities and bundles, follow professional etiquettes and make effective oral arguments, rebuttals and responses to bench interventions. The course will adopt a blended learning approach involving lectures, practical exercises, mock proceedings and use of technology to prepare for various stages of litigation, arbitration or trials. Topics may be oriented towards a specific moot problem or competition or a forum.

CILO-1: Students will be able to identify preparatory requirements for various stages of dispute settlement process and design necessary plans for effective case handling and success using diverse legal strategies and relevant technologies. CILO-2: Students will be able to analyze legal/moot problems to determine relevant causes of action and frame related legal issues and questions, and to devise and implement effective legal research and draft persuasive skeleton arguments and written memorials for claimants and/or respondents. CILO-3: Students will be able to compile legal bundles with pertinent authorities/evidences, argue effective legal claims and defences before adjudicators or arbitrators and deliver convincing responses to questions from the bench. CILO-4: Students will be able to raise and predict rebuttals challenging legal arguments, construct prompt sur-rebuttals and practice professional etiquettes at various stages of advocacy process.