Mrs. R. Kanagalakshmi gave an insightful sessions by providing the importance of Legal English and Communication skills. In the introductory session, the speaker enlightened us about the language learning and the journey of English from the past era. Then she explained about the genres of English such as Academic legal English, Judicial Legal English and Legislative Legal English. She also included legal phrases verbs and importance of legal drafting and correlation with legal English. She suggested various strategies to improve the speaking and communication skill and how to use the legal vocabulary during presentations. Also she talked about the need for national and international legal English for law students. The session was interesting and interactive. Everyone could gain knowledge about this concept in this session.

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The whole world has been under an unprecedented lockdown due to COVID-19 outbreak, so a stage has been set up via E-Learning and online examinations.

We took further step to organise our flagship program - “3rd Ever Rolling MEGA MOOT inter-class Competition 2020”, through virtual mode.

The event was scheduled and conducted successfully from June 18th to June 20th 2020 by Saveetha School Of Law, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences.

45 teams were participated in this competition. Each team consists of Two speakers and Two Researchers.

Total number of participants were 180.

There is an eye of justice that sees everything.

— Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist

Hence, each round was adjudged by the bench of multiple judges.

The results were announced by Mr. Puspanathan Wilson, who is a Senior Advocate and has served as the Additional Solicitor General of India and He is a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India from Tamil Nadu.

The 3rd Ever Rolling MEGA MOOT inter-class Competition 2020 was won by the team comprising of Subayoga, Madhubalaji, Visruthi and Rangeela.

The RUNNER UP was team comprising of Leelesh, Srisurthi, Rohit and Aniruddh

The BEST MEMORIAL was drafted by team of Leelesh, Srisurthi, Rohit and Aniruddh.

The BEST RESEARCHER was awarded to Rangeela

The BEST SPEAKER was won by Leelesh

The BEST TRAINER was awards Mrs. Gayathri J

There were around 250 audience connected through Zoom Cloud Application to witness the Finals,

In total the event was grand success.

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Mr.Manuj in the webinar on the Topic "Impact of Covid ' 19 on International Law" Explained about the Commercial Impacts, Legal Impacts Political Impacts and Human Rights Impacts of Corona. He explained about the economic impacts of corona on World Trade, Export Import Policies worldwide, Political Impacts like Cross-Border Rules and Laws, Immigration, Relationship between countries and Legal impacts like changes in IPR laws and policies, Judiciary and Penal law changes worldwide. He also discussed about Impact of Corona on Human Rights and On Right to Life.

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D.Francis Rozario Arun Raj has presented on Arbitration in Indiaand its scope to a greater extent in India. Arbitration means a process for settling a dispute between the parties by agreeing to let an impartial third party to make binding decisions, without the intervention of court proceedings. Apart from these, he has explained the interim orders and appealable orders. The term arbitral award means a decision which has been given by an arbitrator. The document that gives and explains the decision of an arbitrator is called an award. It’s a final judgement and binding in the same manner as the decision of a court. And concluded by saying that there is a huge scope of arbitration, but there should be practice in the court for at least a few years to have a very good future.

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development.

The resource person explained about the psychology and further in detail about the counselling psychology. She explained that the counselling is required when there is a mental change and traumatized by a certain incident. She supported her point by explaining about the relationship management and how failure in it affects the women and also said about the exercise or certain activities which will be helpful for them to overcome those problems harmoniously.

Further explained about the role of the Women helpline (181) under the Ministry of Women and Child Development and how to get the evidence from the victim to save them and their role in getting justice by contacting or approaching the concerned executive or judicial officials.

In the last ten minutes of the meeting the resource person interacted with the participants and explained about the character, what changes they need for being in harmony.

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The resource person Mr.ROSHAN. B is an employee with the Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals, one of India's biggest electrical FMCGs as Regional Head- Legal( South India).

The topic was legal measures for small business in India. . The speaker started the session by explaining about small business with the help of a graph and how much it contributes to the Indian economy. Further the speaker gave a brief introduction about Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). He then explained about the classification of MSME which are manufacturing enterprises and service enterprises. He then gave us an en-lightment on the process of registration, the documents required, the benefits of MSME registration, the MSME scheme by the government, MSME Samdhaan, the announcement made on May 13, Shops and Establishment Act and the changes under COVID. The speaker concluded stating that there is no protection to the employees in small business, the steps taken by the government is not implemented properly.

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The guest started his lecture by the Introduction about the cybersecurity and discussed about hacking ,cracking, spoofing. He clearly mentioned the main theme about the spoofing, and explained about Denial of service. Then he described about US Cyberlaw , Digital millennium copyright act, cybersecurity enhancement act of 2002, securely protect yourself against cyber trespass act.And he showed the cyber attack schema.Totally 15-18 participants attended the webinar.

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Dr.P.K.Prabhakaran the resource person explained about the famous “R v Dudley and Stephens”, the concept of self preservation and Thiruvalluvar’s take on self defence and murder. He continued the speech by explaining the different modes of punishment, The resource person compared Savigny and Salmond’s theory of punishment to that of Thiruvalluvar. “Prohibition Law” and its deep roots in Thirukkural was also clearly explained. Thiruvalluvar had complete disregard for ‘hunger’ as a defence for theft. Theft, even when committed with good intention, is not justifiable in the eyes of Thiruvalluvar. The history of messengers (Diplomacy) in tamil literature and the “ideal qualities” that must be present in a messenger according to Thiruvalluvar was beautifully elucidated. Thiruvalluvar’s commitment to economic justice and its influence on Article 39A of the Indian Constitution, as stated in the famous kural.

“பகுத்துண்டு பல்லுயிர் ஓம்புதல் நூலோர்

தொகுத்தவற்றுள் எல்லாந் தலை.”

The resource person completed the session by stating that Thiruvalluvar managed to explain all the aspects of “Law and Justice” without mentioning these words separately, in the single concept “Aram (அறம்)”.

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The speaker LAKSHMI MANASA spoke on the topic ‘legal marketing-enhancing brands with the value,trust and quality’ how marketing plays a role in the legal system and as budding lawyers we have to know the importance of promoting and how important it is to keep ourselves achievable and survive in this marketing world. In the concept of legal marketing, branding is considered as an important role for distinguishing and identifying the best law firms. She also discusses how digital marketing is important for a law firm to develop and it helps to get recognition by the people. As lawyers we face many legal barriers in our career which limit our scope of marketing,not with advertising in big newspapers as such but more important how we present ourselves, and make sure we stay in the legal market. From today's session We learned that with a little change in our approach of promotion and its importance as a budding lawyer.

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Dr. V. Kalpana, Drug Safety Associate, Pharmacovigilance who has an experience for about 3 years. She started the lecture by giving the Introduction of Drug Invention. She discussed almost all the trials and phases involved in drug invention, also explained about all the legal procedures involved in it in case of liability ,when the drug testing goes wrong on the patient. The speaker concluded the session by summarising the key points.

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Mr Thiyambak kannan the resource person spoke about cross examination during trial of cases and explained .

There is a misconception about cross examination in general and he stated ,that the cross examination process has been wrongly depicted in movies .He stated the cross examination is the process where questions are asked to the party and thereby convincing the judge and he also elaborated that an opposition lawyer either deny or try and disprove the statement of the party. He explained about burden of proof, chief examination, cross examination and re examination .

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Advocate Vrindha Ramesh was the resource person for the webinar. She enlightened us with the basics of Bail under Code of criminal Procedure, 1973. She started the session with the definitions of Bail, Cognizable and Non Cognizable offences.She provided details and essentials of bail, Anticipatory bail and interim Bail with illustration of offences.

She discussed with us few cases and also provided the limitations of the trial prisoners and other prisoners.The exceptions for Bail applications like offences punishable with death or Life Imprisonment, previous convictions, etc were explained.

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Mr.P.H.C.M.Gandhi was the resource person of this webinar. The resource person emphasized about what is an government orders and who has authority to make such orders and rules to make those orders and secondly whether the government orders must be void in any circumstances. Lastly he talked about whether the government orders can be revoked by any person to which he explained the detail about it and relates some examples for the procedure.By the end few students raised questions ,he cleared all the doubts to the students .

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The Guest speaker commenced by stating that it is perfectly acceptable and normal to be confused during the course of studying law, he further went on to say that it is only when people experience the vastness of law that they will ultimately find their niche and find success in it.

The lecturer stressed the importance of extracurriculars for a law student and the added benefit it provides. He gave an insight in what a law firm looks for in an associate and how to gain an advantage. At the conclusion of the lecture , the guest lecturer fielded questions from the students and cleared all their doubts.

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The Guest Speaker of the day was Ms. Nandhini Priya who spoke on the title called “Rights of the Patients under RTI Act”. The Speaker is Currently working as Physiotherapists at Aster International Hospital at Bengaluru. The Guest Speaker Spoke about the Rights of Patients, History on Patient Rights and How it Relates to RTI, The Psychological framework on Patient Rights. Also we got to know the Fundamental Rights towards Patient Rights. The Speaker Enlightened us with the Right to Information Act 2005 and how the patients can claim their rights. At the End of the Session Participants had put forth a few questions where the same was clarified by the Guest Speaker. Overall the Session was informative and enlightened us with better knowledge on Patient Rights.

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The resource person started the webinar by acknowledging that this day (16/06/2020) is to be a historical day as the case for 50% “reservation to backward classes in all central government institutions” was to be heard in the Madras High Court. She also praised the unity of the political parties on raising the voice for social justice unanimously, cutting across political barriers. She asked the students to keep away from the prejudices against reservation and explained various questions that may arise after the seminar. The class and caste variant was explained. She explained about the questions raised by N.Subramaniya Iyer in “The Hindu” in the 1920s, questioning the idea of social justice proposed by the “Justice Party”. The reply of the Justice Party to N.Subramaniya Iyer as “Justice is fair dealing” was also explained. The resource person continued with the history of social justice movements and cases such as Champakkam Dorairajan case that struck down the communal order of the government. She covered various aspects of reservation and social justice movements including the history of South Indian Liberation Groups..The historic 1st amendment was also explained.The webinar ended at around 9:55AM. The session ended with the resource person answering the question raised by the student coordinator.

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The resource person was Mrs. Kavitha B. The session started with explanation of what ADR is and how it influences the litigation. she had also explained what multi-tier ADR clauses are and under which industries these clauses are mainly used. She also explained the several steps involved with the multi-tier ADR clauses. Then she started to explain how they are applied. She then went on to explain what negotiation was, and how to develop one's skills in negotiating, as well as the fundamental elements involved in it. Later explained about conciliation for commercial disputes, then the less formal Mediation, the nature of its process as well as the role of a Mediator. Then she went on to explain the traditional way that is Arbitration.

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A Webinar was delivered by Mr.V. Muthuraman, Advocate and joint partner of lakshmikumaran and Sridharan. He has 20 yrs of experience in the field of law and taxation.

The webinar was on Tax Structure in India and Introduction to GST. Mr.V.Muthuraman started the session by talking about the origin of tax and how tax structure was formed in India. Then he went on to explain the tax structure in India. The Indian tax structure was first formed in the year 1860 and important points relating to it were explained. Then he started to explain the topic GST and the constitutional amendment relating to GST(constitution 101 amendment act). Then the List of GST Returns/Statements to be furnished by Registered Persons was also specified by the resource person. Towards the end of the session he concluded it by stating ceratin important aspects in GST.

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Mr.R. Shanthalingam, a retd general manager was the resource person for the webinar. He explained about the role of lawyers in the banking sector as well as how Some important services rendered by banking lawyers Handling deferred payment issues Settlement of NPA (Non-performing assets), Managing issues regarding Securitizations and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SARFAESI Act)

To sum up the session was really informative to every lawyers and an insightful session on the whole.

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The Guest Speaker of the day was Ms. LALITHA RASHMI who is currently working as a Freelance Graphic Designer and also a photographer. The Guest spoke about “COPYRIGHT IN RELATION TO THE FASHION INDUSTRY”.

The guest Enlightened us with different concepts such as Meaning of Fashion and Fashions Business, Explained on Intellectual Property in general, Ideas,Methods and Concepts not protected under Copyright, Knockoffs, Economic Rights. Lastly we had an interactive session by posting Questions which was clarified by the Speaker. Overall we had an informative Session.

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