The department of social sciences and Humanities of SSL has organized a Training Program on Counselling Skills for Lawyers. The Guests of the Day were MR. ARUN and MR. T.R. VENDER VENDAN . The morning Session was between 10.15 A.m to 1.15 P.m was handled by Mr. S. Arun, Psychiatric social Worker , NIMHANS. gave inputs on the counselling skills required to enhance the client response. He also gave inputs such as empathy, listening and observing the client and his body language. he also explained about the lawyers role in counselling the client with parapharsing , summarising ,etc.
Evening Session was handled by MR. T.R. VENDER VENDEN , Trainer in govt TNDEGO , gave his valuable inputs on Counselling skills SOLER and the areas where counselling skills can be used effectively. he also explained the role of Counselling in the Profession and how it can be used effectively.

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At the outset, the Goal of communication explained to students through the concept of Physical Zone and Emotional Zone.   Students were given practical knowledge through Role play. Social Zone, Public Zone, Private Zone and Intimate zone was explained. The aim of all dynamic communication is to Penetrate into the Emotional zone of the other people.  Students were asked questions as to how many were there in the intimate zone inside the class room. It was found out that no one was in the others intimate zone and they have not tried to penetrate. They were given ideas to penetrate into the Emotional zone of the other people.

 

1. Call everyone by Name. (Role play conducted)

2. Appreciate

3. Try to gather as much information as possible

4. Try to connect with the other through collected information.

 

Communication modal was explained. Communication is not the communicator communicates but what the other person perceives. Oral, Written and non-Verbal communication was explained.  Personal examples were given about each communication from my experience as Arbitration Assistant in Government cases. 

 

The importance of Oral communication and improving the same was trained at length.  Chinese whisper was conducted and the students understood the need to listen carefully. How information will get spoiled if there is no face to face interaction was demonstrated.

 

The difference types of Listening were explained. Active Listening, Passive listening and selective listening.  Big fish and small fish exercise conducted to show the importance of the Listening.  Many examples were given to make them understand the difference and the need of Active Listening.

 

The basics of oral communication was explained through the acronym KISS (Keep it so simple). Examples were given aplenty.    Copy and paste game was conducted and it was demonstrated that the communication is taken by difference people in different method eve though the communication is same for all.

 

Probing is essential part in a Lawyer’s life.  Students were trained on Probing by giving them theory as well as Practical through an activity which is available in full in Facebook.

Then we started Written communication.   The need to develop written English and the importance of the same in the legal field was explained. Grammar Quiz was conducted and it was found that everyone is Average in Grammar.  Students need to be trained on Grammar from basics. Since time limit was less, only importance was discussed and students were asked to strengthen their written English. To reinforce the importance, SHIP exercise was conducted and it was demonstrated how meaning will change even if a single letter is changed (Ship/hip).

 

A thorough journey on Email etiquette was done.  The proper subject line, difference between To, CC and BCC, Reply, reply all and Forward etc was dealt at length with examples. Body of the letter, Dos and Don'ts were trained at length.

(Flaming not allowed in Email, not to use Emoticons and smileys, Not to use Wasp English, Not to use unaccepted abbreviations etc). A modal was given to students and they were asked to send Email to me with CC to the Madam. It was told that the email will be corrected and sent to them back.  But no email received.

 

Body language was covered with inputs from students.  Body language which can influence others were trained like leaning little bit forward to show interest.

 

Students wanted tips on how to avoid stage fear. The same was cleared to them.

But they need a full day workshop on the same.

 

241 audio and PDF files were shared to Ma’am for sharing the same to the students to improve their listening skills and communication skills.

 

The workshop ended at 3pm.

 

Suggestion from Trainer: -

 

1. Exclusive Grammar class with basic written English Practice may be organized. Students talk fluently but they have forgotten the basics. They were not able to reply how many tense in English etc.

2. Transactional Analysis and NLP may be trained for senior students to understand the clients better.

3. Principal ma’am asked to organize a training for faculties on TA and NLP. The same can be planned.

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A Special Lecture on the topic “Importance of Data in Research” on 26th August, 2019 for the Slot D (LC2508) students was organized by Dr. Sreeya B. The Resource person of the session was Mr. Srivathsavan Iyengar, a Data scientist, Influencer, Plot Writer and Philanthropist. He was honored with the prestigious ‘Einstein Award of the year 2018’ by the World Youth Federation and awarded the ‘Best Student activist of the year 2016’ by the Computer Society of India. He is also a professionalism in hacking and other computer technical aspects. He started the lecture with an introduction on research and its types. A brief outline regarding cyber laws and cyber security was also given. The lecture was an eye opener over the effects of social media and other internet accesses. Mr. Srivathsavan has also insisted on the duplication of the research work and its effects over the person who has done the act. The content of the lecture includes the following. There are certain ethics to be followed in order to do the research work like not to steal the work, thesis and papers of others for which can be charged under the Intellectual Property Right. The Analysis has to be done on the prescribed software which does mathematical work over the collected data. The feedback is formatted by running through the software for which best example that can be given is the Hospitality Services and Restaurant Services. The research can also be based on the current issues that are based on Nuisance, Harassment, Dominance and other social discriminations. The lecture also covered over the present important cases like Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, Business Men like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi. He also spoke about the developments in information and communication technology. The session proved to be useful to the students as they gained lot of knowledge from the special lecture. It was also lively due to the resource person’s scintillating personality. The lecturer was highly interactive with the students which made the session worthwhile. At the end of the session, the students were given a chance to put forth their queries and doubts to the resource person. Overall, it was a great learning experience for the students as they got to interact with such an experienced person.

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Humanities and Social Sciences of Saveetha School of Law conducted an invited lecture on ‘Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Practice’ on 23rd August, 2019. Dr.K.Karuppiah, Professor of Law welcomed the gathering in SSL Seminar Hall for the lecture. Prof. Dr. K.Jothi Sivagnanam, Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Chair Person, School of Economics, Madras University delivered the lecture which covered the vertical and horizontal financial transfer in India and the responsibilities of Government in monitoring economy with recent data of Reserve Bank of India. The theory of fiscal federalism assumes that a federal system of government can be efficient and effective at solving problems governments face today, such as just distribution of income, efficient and effective allocation of resources, and economic stability. Economic stability and just distribution of income can be done by federal government because of its flexibility in dealing with these problems. Because states and localities are not equal in their income, federal government intervention is needed. Allocation of resources can be done effectively by states and local governments. At the end of the session resource person given suggestions to control the unnecessary debt and effective planning of revenue and expenditure in India. Dr. K.Kirubagaran, Assistant Professor of E

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On account World Humanitarian Day, Saveetha School of Law organised an interactive session on 'Humanitarian assistance to Tribal during disasters' with Mr. Hari Balaji VR, National Consultant - Disaster Management. The session touched on the field reality of humanitarian assistance during post disaster scenario in Tribal hamlets. Over 80 students participated in the program. The session had experience sharing, group activity and role play segments

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Saveetha School Of Law, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences organises it's flagship program of 2nd JUS LEX NATIONAL TRIAL ADVOCACY COMPETITION, 2019 which was conducted from August 16th to 18th, 2019 . Dr. Asha Sundaram Principal, inaugurated the function on August 16th 2019. All over the country 16 teams participated in this competition. Each team consist of Two speaker and one Researcher.

Total of 48 participants

The event was structured as Preliminary Round 1 and 2 whereas all 16 teams argued for prosecution and defence

Among them, Top 8 teams qualified for the

Quarter Finals. Side of argument were chosen through draw of lots and the opponent were chosen through power matching. A four judge bench adjudged the quarterfinals.

The top 4 teams as mentioned below qualified for Semi Finals

1. New Law college, Pune

2. School of excellence in law, Chennai

3. Symbiosis Law school, Hyderabad

4. Presidency University school of Law, Bangalore.

The semi finals of the competition are judged by the ex and retired magistrates.

Top two teams from the semi finals qualified for the finals.

1. Symbiosis law school, Hyderabad

2. New law college, Pune

The finals was adjudged by the two sitting Judges of Madras High Court Justice M. Sundar and Justice M. Nirmal Kumar.

The New law college, Pune was declared as winners and they were awarded with the prize money worth Rs. 63,000 and a cash award of Rs. 10,000/-

Symbiosis Law school, Hyderabad was declared as runners and they were awarded with the prize money worth Rs. 42,000 and a cash award of Rs. 5000/-

Dr. Deepak Nallaswamy, Director of Academics, SIMATS welcomed the gathering and Dr. Asha Sundaram, Principal, Saveetha School of law, SIMATS delivered the vote of thanks.

The winners of other awards are as follows:

1. Best memorial: Sastra School of Law, Sastra Deemed to be University, Thanjavur

2. Best researcher : Mr. Viswajit, School of Excellence in law, Chennai

3. Best speaker male: Mr. Simarjeet Singh Satia, New law college, Pune

4. Best speaker female: Ms. Ranjitha. N.R, Christ (deemed to be university) school of Law, Bangalore

In a total 20 court officers and 80 witnesses were provided by the organisers with the equal distribution for each team from all 5 year students. The witnesses got special appreciation from the sitting High Court judges for their role play.

This event was coordinated by Moot coordinator Asst.Prof. Sornalakshmi RR

Our proud sponsor of this event is THE LAW FINDER who sponsored us with stationery and subscriptions.

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The role of training and development in enriching the performance and productivity of employees in organisations is widely acknowledged , especially when organisations are operating in a dynamic environment. The guest speaker, Ms. Sasirekha, Assistant Professor, MBA Department, SRM Easwari Engineering College, elaborated on the need, objectives and importance of training and development in organisations. She addressed the students on the various trading and development initiatives that are adopted by organisations citing examples from the corporate and education sector. There was active participation from students and they had their queries clarified.

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Saveetha school of law, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences organized a internal  workshop on legal research methodology-SPSS on 13th August 2019. This workshop was Organised / conducted  by Mrs S.P. VIDYASSRI  AND Ms R. ARYA  exclusively for the first year students. Internal Faculties named Dr B SREEYA  Associate Professor and Ms ARUNA Asst professor having more than 12 years of experience in Teaching as well as SPSS /research were the Guest – Speakers of this workshop.  Over 180 students participated in the workshop. The main objective of the workshop is to introduce the importance of legal research to the first year students belongs to different courses under Law and give them a proper training for the upcoming quarters in the area of Empirical research. The students were taught about the SPSS Software, which is helpful in doing empirical study in Law. 

SPSS is a widely used program for statistical analysis in social science. It is also used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, marketing organizations, data miners, and others. SPSS Statistics places constraints on internal file structure, data types, data processing, and matching files, which together considerably simplify programming. SPSS datasets have a two-dimensional table structure, where the rows typically represent cases (such as individuals or households) and the columns represent measurements (such as age, sex, or household income). The students participated in the workshop gained knowledge regarding spss. Speakers of this programme taught about categorical, dichotomous question, multiple choice question, scaling question, scaling data, coding ,scale : ANOVAs , correlation( relationship) Categorical: chi-square (association) and to calculate the frequency of null and alternative Hypothesis

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A special lecture on “Organizations and Cyber crime -The Nature of Groups engaged in Cyber Crime” was conducted by Ms.K.Nancy., Advocate, Madras High Court. She explained the nature of groups engaged in cyber crime and briefly outlines the definition and scope of cyber crime, theoretical and empirical challenges in addressing what is known about cyber offenders, and the likely role of organized crime groups. The user of computer system and internet are increasing worldwide in large number day by day, where it is easy to access any information easily within a few seconds by using internet which is the medium for huge information and a base of communications around the world .There has been tremendous growth in use of Internet. Due to this cyber crimes increases day by day. Cyber Crime is technology based crime committed by technocrats. She further explained about the Variants of cyber crime like terrorist attack, cyber extortion, crimes against individuals, crimes against property, and crimes against organization. It also includes impact on the real world and society, and how to handle cyber crimes.

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Special Lecture was delivered by Dr. V. Jayachitra, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Sree Muthukumarasamy College, Chennai. Resource person having 15 years of experience in teaching Specialized in Public Economics and published number of articles in National and international journals. She gave lecture on"New Industrial Policy 1991and it's impact on Indian Economy". Especially resource person discussed the Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Indirect Investment in indian industry after the new economic policy came into effect.At the end of the session students interacted with resource person and she also clarified all their doubt.

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A special lecture was conducted on 13.08.2019. Ms.K.Sindhuri, Marketing and Sales head in the company Stage3 was invited as a resource person. The topic of the lecture was " Influence of consumer behaviour while formulating marketing strategy in Indian context". The resource person gave a brief lecture on consumer behaviour,internal and external factors influencing consumer behaviour. She also gave a brief lecture on various marketing strategies. She explained the way in which these factors are considered while formulating marketing strategies by citing current examples. As she is the head of the marketing division in her organisation, she shared her practical official and marketing experiences with students. She explained marketing theme behind some of the advdtisements through displaying related vedios. She had lively interaction with students and replied to the queries of the students. The session was quite intersting and interactive.

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The special lecture was delivered by Mr.R.Elango, Advocate ,Madras High Court on the topic "" Surety and Partnership Act"". He has explained about all the aspects of surety and surety bonds then he focused on what is partnership , how it's differ from company ,how to register and dissolute the partnership , scope of the Act then what are the keys points have to be taken while writing.Finally the lecture ended up with interaction

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The special lecture By M Azarudeen working as Associate ( Legal and Research) in Callidus Compliance solution in the subject Family law -2 on 12:08:209 was based on the topic “ WAKF, GIFT AND WILL IN ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE UNDER MOHAMMEDAN LAW” The guest lecture rendered was very informative as I could have a clear cut idea about the gifts under Muslim Law where The gift can be transferred to unborn child in Shia and Sunni law which varies with the restrictions, and had understood a clear overview of conditions for validating the gift under Shia law and Sunni law and analysed the main aim of the Hiba thatthe contract must be made between two living persons.Then the lecture gave importance to the Wakf board where the explanation was given about the process of operation of such board and the role of tribunals in supervising the Wakf Board, the composition of Wakf Board and was taught about the persons who are entitled to contribute in Wakf Board and explanation about the types of Wakf Board the can be no misuse of property, for the purpose of supervising the wakf board and to sort the issues relating to board Wakf Tribunal was formulated, in this board only Muslims can contribute, it money must be used for the purpose of serving Shariat Law.This lecture especially helpful for the students who were interested in the field of practing in Family related cases. He also cleared their queries at the end of the session. Hope it was interesting as well as an interactive session with students.

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The special lecture conducted gives a basic idea about torts.The best part of the lecture was on the topic of medical negligence.The topic was explained with various case laws and practical examples were given tio grasp the topic.The explanation regarding Medical Negligence was fantastic as it talked about the various happenings in and around the society.The session was very useful and interactive.

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The Lecture deals about the basic concepts of law, functions of law and how far helps in regulating the conduct of human behavior in our society. The lecture focused much on legal maxims explaining about the concepts of a person can get legal remedy only if he has a legal right over it and also dealing with the concept ,Any action cannot be taken for an immoral cause.The lecture also focused on rights and liabilities of persons and a brief discussion about law an morality.

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On 8th August 2019, Saveetha School of Law, placement cell has conducted a one-day workshop in partnership with Kingmaker IAS Academy on “Action plan to crack UPSC Exam”. 

The session was headed by Mr. Rishabh C.A, IAS, (2018 Tamilnadu, UPSC Topper, AIR 23). He shared his journey of grit and determination in clearing one of the hardest exams in the country. Mr. Rishabh who was an engineering graduate from Maduranthakam and was working as an engineer with Infosys, before he decided to join civil service. He outlined the action plan every civil service aspirant need to follow in order to develop a personalized style for the exam preparation. Mr. Boominathan, Director of Kingmaker IAS Academy has pointed out the sparsity of Tamilnadu candidates who could clear the UPSC exams. He explained in detail the exam structure of UPSC and suggested recommended books for both prelims and mains. He reiterated the importance of law students to give UPSC exam a try as the syllabus of UPSC has law as an integral part and it’s a battle half won for a law student. 

 Mr. Rishabh C.A, IAS highlighted the importance of having an updated knowledge in current affairs about the happenings across the globe and particularly in India. He recommended reading the editorials of popular newspapers like The Hindu, Economist and parliamentary discussions. He then engaged in a healthy debate with the students regarding the scrapping of Art. 370 and students were delighted to get a different perspective on the issue. He also shared his experience with the panel during the personal round of interview, which lasted for about three hours! Over all it was a good experience for the students who got insider information about the various tips and tricks to crack civil service exam.

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Guest lecture on Consumer Behaviour was held on 9th of August 2019, Guest speaker was Mr.S.Chandrasekaran, Assistant professor, Department of management studies, SRM Easwari Enggering college ,Chennai. He delivered a lecture on the topic Consumer Behaviour in Digital Marketing . He was mainly focusing the lecturer to digital marketing impact on consumer behavior and currently the modern consumer how they given the priority to digitalize marketing. As a consumer point of view what are the expectation are there in the digital marketing like product colour, design, offers, delivering date and mode of payment and how to rectify that their needs and wants. He was explain about the digital marketing strategy, Goal, and importance of consumer behavior through different social medias like facebook,twitter,TikTok etc.

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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of Saveetha School of Law conducted an invited lecture on ‘Environmental Crimes in India’ on 7th August, 2019.  Dr. K. S. Shoba Jasmin, Associate Professor of Economics welcomed the gathering in SSL Seminar Hall for the lecture. Prof. Dr.  Dhulasi Birundha Varadharajan, Former Chairperson, School of Economics, Madurai Kamaraj University delivered the lecture which covered the environmental crimes in India, the causes of depletion of minerals which are unnoticed and the CO2 emissions from the industrial sector  leading to massive environmental degradation. The Mineral Theft in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu got special attention among the students with the volume of trade of minerals from India and motivated the students to look into the problem deeply.  The lacunae in National Legislation to control the environmental crimes was discussed and the need to include the environmental crimes under criminal offences also recommended at the end of the discussion. Dr. Kirubakaran, Assistant Professor of Economics proposed vote of thanks and the session was concluded with National Anthem.

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The role of consumers and their behaviour is significant to marketers as they continuously identify quantitative and qualitative ways to measure consumer behaviour. The guest speaker, Ms. Sasirekha, Assistant Professor, SRM Easwari Engineering College, threw light on the internal influences such as perception, motivation, personality, attitude and self-image that affect consumer behaviour. Real-time examples were discussed in class and the session was quite interactive with active participation from the students.

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A special lecture on “Lok adalat system in India” was conducted by Mrs.Hemalatha, Madras high court advocate. She started with how the Lok Adalat system in India originated, its scope and ambit, need and also its importance. She also discussed about the jurisdiction pertaining to Lok Adalats along with its procedure to deal with the cases and the powers of Lok Adalats. The concept of Lok Adalat is an innovative Indian contribution to the world jurisprudence. The introduction of Lok Adalats added a new chapter to the justice dispensation system of this country and succeeded in providing a supplementary forum to the victims for satisfactory settlement of their disputes. This system is based on Gandhian principles. It is one of the components of ADR systems. In ancient times the disputes were used to be referred to “panchayat” which were established at village level. Panchayat’s used to resolve the dispute through arbitration. It has proved to be a very effective alternative to litigation. This very concept of settlement of dispute through mediation, negotiation or through arbitral process known as decision of "Nyaya-Panchayat" is conceptualized and institutionalized in the philosophy of Lok Adalat. It involves people who are directly or indirectly affected by dispute resolution.

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