Saveetha school of law students Shantilal.S,Akshita.B.N and S.Sandhesh Saravanan emerged as the winner in the competition,”1st Virtual National Moot Court Competition “conducted by an up and coming legal website named Legalzems

It's a wholly student-run organization.

The competition comprised of 30 teams from all over the nation. The problem was centred on the sensational Citizenship Amendment Act developments And the Assam Accord.

It was a strenuous journey over a period of 3 days, hardly fought competition.

All the knockout rounds comprised of Highly esteemed judges who were active Practitioners and judges in the SC.

After a lot of riveting ups and downs in our journey to the final, our team held it's nerve in the final as the Judge darted difficult questions at us. Eventually we emerged triumphant and our hardwork paid off rightfully so.

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The webinar was conducted by Ms. Swarnalatha who is practising as an advocate in Madras High court. She started her discussion with detailed analog of what victim compensation is and how it is scattered and implemented in India. She highlighted about the various schemes that have been implemented in many states. Also about the need for uniformed scheme across India. Also how there can be misuse of the law and people can take advantage of it where the innocents can be exploited. She gave insight-upon United Nations General Assembly Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victim and Abuse of Power adopted in November 1985, which through Article 1&2. The legislative framework in Indian regarding compensation to victim of crime can be trace through two major legislations i.e. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and Probations of Offenders Act and Constitution of India, explained how the payment of compensation of victim had evolved. The Hon'ble Courts have taken a view ( with regard to monetary aspect) when question of the award of compensation come under Cr.P.C. as compare to when it comes under Constitution.

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The resource person was “Mr. Adeesh Anto”, who is a practicing Advocate at Madras High Court. In the span of 20 years of his practice, he has expertise himself in drafting and litigation management, negotiating skills, and also communication skills. He has contributed his efforts in various reputed law firms like S.Ramasubramaniam & Associates, Kochhar & Co. and currently he is serving at SAP legal.

Adv. Adeesh Anto initially gave an historical insight about arbitration and how it is governed in the present era. Following this, he explained the purpose and need of arbitration in India. He then acknowledged the participants about the process and procedure of arbitration proceeding in detail and highlighted various segments of it, such as what matters can be arbitrated upon, the need of arbitration clause, who can be the parties to the arbitral proceedings, appointment of arbitrators, number of arbitrators, and the time span to conclude an arbitral proceedings. He also explained how the arbitration moves from pleadings, to framing of issues, to producing evidence, to arguments, to passing of an arbitral award and finally enforcement of an arbitral award. The webinar on a whole was very informative and helpful for the participants to understand the subject of arbitration in India.

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The webinar began with the hierarchy of courts. The concept of what are all the works in the court and who is designated to which post. The guest then moved on to the hierarchy of judges ranking from the superior court to the lower court. He Also explained about the postings in the court from higher authority to the lower authority and the works assigned to them.

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Ms. Letha was the resource person of this webinar. She provided an introduction on History of banking in India and explained about the bank of Hindusthan, presidency bank and about Hilton young. Also dealt with the RBIAct, 1934,and about it’s nationalization, official and non official members and the directors, detailed explanation about the types of accounts, Indian stock exchange, and capital marketing . Also dealt with digital marketing and the possible cyber attacks in that area. Spoke about the Bombay stock exchange, National stock exchange, and about the security exchange board of India. Scope and development of digital marketing in India especially during this time of pandemic. She also dealt with the investments being made digitally through various platforms like cryptocurrencies etc. The changing facet of banking system and its comparison with the pre and post digital world and its advantages and the disadvantages. As a conclution it was said digital banking is a useful system when it is used with due care and awareness.

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Introduction about the general existing laws in India for the protection of women from sexual harrasment at workplace. Also about CEDAW the visakas'case and the guidelines, about the key concepts of POSH Act 2013. And she explained about the circumstances which leads to sexual harrasment, and explained about rule of confidentiality etc. Explained about POSH Act parting thoughts and remarks and talked about Covid19 and it's impacts and ended with some suggestions about POSH Act.

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Webinar by Mr. A. R. Mohan started his lecture from the JJ Act and moved on to the concept of what are all the offences that are covered under the juvenile justice act. The origin of the act and its reason. Also explained about the Juvenile justice in India and described briefly about the adoption and the rules followed during the process of adoption and who can make or give adoption.

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Mr.R. Aswin was the resource person of this webinar. He provided an insight on the basics of corporate citizenship , about the corporate governance and what is corporate social responsibility. The relevance of corporate citizenship, the aspects of role of corporate social responsibility in Case of emergency conditions and during the pandemics. The provision of corporate social responsibility given in the old as well as the new company law in India, also briefly explained about the amount that has to be contributed by the company in csr, the liabilities of the companies in case if the companies are not met with their statutory obligations. The resource person also explained about the contributions of the companies made during the pandemic and their relevance to the corporate social responsibility.

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Ms. Anjane vasan gave insightful sessions by providing the importance of pleadings and its procedure,with an interactive way by letting a students to ask her various questions and answered accordingly. She provided information such as how a law student can learn to file a case while pursuing degree and the difficulties we may face once when we enter into our field. Then she explained about various case laws and landmark judgments on pleadings. Further she also explained to us the procedure in filing plaint and written statement which was very interesting and informative. She suggested various strategies to improve the speaking and communication skill and she asked us to learn the tactics to communicate with the people to pullout the truth which is important for lawyer. she also asked us to improve the legal argument skills, and asked to learn legal language.

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Webinar on COVID 19 was mainly organised with an intention to share the legal issues that are involved during this lockdown period.Then moved on with the legal enacts relating to workers and the problems faced by workers during the nationwide lockdown. Resource person also enlightened the students with various suggestions that can be taken for protection of rights of labourers and reducing the legal problems that arise during this lockdown period.

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Mr.Arockia Dass, started the session by giving a basic introduction about arbitration. Later on moved to objectives behind the enactment of arbitration and conciliation act and explained the provision under Section 34 of the act. He also explained in detail the advantages and disadvantages of ADR, the cases or disputes that can be taken for arbitration proceedings . He also explained the binding nature of arbitration award and the procedure in which interim orders can be obtained in the arbitration proceedings as in normal civil suits.

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Evolution and Significance of Fundamental Rights of the Indian Constitution. The speaker Mr. A.Gautham Sashan, Practicing Advocate in Madras High Court and Subordinate courts. The session started with the evolution of the Constitution and the main scale of landmark Amendments from the 1st to the latest amendment with cases like AK Gopalan, Keshavanandha Bharathi,Sajin Singh etc. And explained the traces of theses Rights from United States Constitution.Then the speaker explained the provisions of Part III of the Constitution with case laws and illustrations mostly related to current affairs. Lastly he also explained about the usage of Writs and their scope.

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In today’s session the speaker taught about climate change and referred to the seasonal changes over a long period of time due to many systems connected with nature. Factors of climate change are divided into two types: natural & artificial factors which have an impact on climate change. Both the factors has an impact over the change of the climate and the link with the present situation of the Covid-19 stating we can see the change of the climate due to the less emissions of the gas we can have a greater experience right now how the Mother Earth is healing the environment by itself. Then she showed us the image which was differentiating the climate changes with the environmental structure. Then we went to the convention regime of the climate changes which has been brought by the international conference starting from the year 1980 till now the adoption, alteration, and the acceptance of the convention by the various states.

The commitment between the states made by all the members to take steps ahead for the welfare of climate change and agreed thereafter by the states. The Main Kyoto Protocol which has stated that parties to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions based on the scientific consensus and the global warming is occurring due to the human made factors which has an impact on the climate changes.

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S. Karthik Varun of BA.,LLB.( Hons) 5th year of Saveetha School of Law, SIMATS, Chennai was declared as the Winner of the Moot Point Live Series-Competition conducted by Surana and Surana International Attorneys and Jindal Global Law School in association with Lawctopus. Initially, he emerged one among the Top-4 shortlisted candidates based on written submissions. In the Final Rounds he faced Chanakya National law School University, ILS Law College, and Amity Law School pushing them to second, third and fourth place. Karthik gets an opportunity to intern with Surana and Surana, Chennai Office.

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The guest gave the insight of Herbal medicines its history of traditional medicines, Evolution of indigenous drugs, forms of herbal medicine ,types of Herbal medicines, worldwide utilisation of Herbal medicines, shift towards herbal medicines. Also the merits and diversity of herbal approach and modes of utilisation of herbs and need for development of herbal drugs. About the precaution to be taken and given brief study on the king of spices and about the limitation of herbal drugs.

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Mr. A. Muthupalaniappan, Advocate, Coimbatore started his lecture on the Introduction of Epigraphy and Inscriptions. He discussed the details and explained about 4 major temple inscriptions. They are Cuddalore Shivan Temple epigraphy, about the judgment relating to Temple land issue given by King Vikramapandian in the 13th Century. Next case related to the theft of temple jewels in the sixteenth century about the epigraphy known as 'Vijayanagar Kalvettu'. The other case was about the Thamarai pakkam epigraphy dated in the 10th century about a murder case that also involved jury members. It was a case famous for its humanity based law. The last case was about the Thirukovilur Jampai epigraphy.

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HINDU MARRIAGE ACT, 1955: AN OVERVIEW’

Webinar on the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. the speaker stated the Evolution of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 which began with the history of Hindu law,explained the definitions and decisions taken by the charter Courts in the Presidency towns of India.

The development and the upliftment of the Indian Society from the social evils like Sati and other superstitious beliefs in India, the codification of the ancient laws as the enactments which is used right now.It outlined the clear history of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955,the salient features of the Hindu Marriage Act, the concept of Divorce, Judicial separation, Restitution of Conjugal right and other topics.

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In today's session Dr. Muthu raja gave a brief introduction about the topic that is what is the one of Doctors in Court. How they act as an expert evidence, procedure the doctors follow in court. Then Dr. Raja, started to explain the contents to be mentioned in medico legal report and also explained who has to initiate to write a medico legal report. Later on Dr. Raja in an excellent manner explained the role of doctors in rape cases and sexual assault cases. And explained the techniques the medical practitioners use to find out the person behind the sexual assault and rape cases and also explained how it would be helpful for the police officials to trace out the exact accused. The entire session was interesting and useful. Session was going on for around 50 mins.

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The speaker for the webinar A.Susheela Maharaja, spoke on the topic stress management. Stress is a perceived threat to one’s mind,body,spirit or emotion. The webinar started with the meaning of stress which means a feeling of emotional and physical tension. It’s a response for the challenges we face in our life which gives biological responses in the form of physical and mental stress. The psychological feeling of stress leads to our ability of thinking becoming narrow, reduced enjoyment in our life, loss of our thoughts and we are not able to have proper functioning of our mind. Symptoms for the stress are we face emotional feelings like anger, restlessness, worry are symptoms for emotional stress. This session discusses how to overcome or manage stress, why a person should manage stress and how to fight against the response of the stress. When a student has a balanced life , time and career in life-family then he/she is free from the stress. Balancing life helps the person free from stress. There are many ways to control stress, some are meditation, mindfulness,yoga . But controlling the stress is dependent on the individual interest. What will help them to reduce their stress level and it’s their choice to use their own technique to manage stress. Atlast she concluded by saying stress is a part of life where we have to accept it and we cannot run away from it. We have to accept it and enjoy the present.

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The resource person started the webinar by explaining who is an Central government employee and the relation with consolidated fund of India. Then he explained about the CCS(CCA) Rules, 1965. Later he explained about the Central Administrative Tribunal and Marshal courts in India. The guest also explained a little about Armed forces and Central Armed Police Forces where he explained the application of CPC. Then he talked about the types of penalties including the punishments to the person involved in disciplinary proceedings. On the final note he explained the court proceedings related to the Disciplinary proceedings against the central government employees.

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