Student Activities

In pursuance of honing the diplomacy skills of students and setting those in simulated settings of various International Committees, Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA organised the Second Edition of Model United Nations – Intra Sym Mun 2 in collaboration with the UN Information Center of India and Bhutan on September 30- October 1, 2011. Ms. Rineeta Naik, Assistant Information Officer of U.N, graced the occasion by being a Chief Guest. While addressing the students, she emphasized on how important it is to make mistakes as they are the keystones to progress. She further articulated on how we can learn from the mistakes we commit and strive for success in future. In contrast to the First Edition of SYM MUN held in 20^th-21^st May 2011, this time the event was bigger as it comprised of 4 committees of United Nations viz. General Assembly, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and theHuman Rights Council. The Agenda of the committee was as follows: General Assembly-Nuclear Terrorism; OPEC- Economic Implications of Humanitarian Intervention, War and Politics; Security Council- Conflict in the Arctic Region; and Human Rights Council- Immigration and Sexual Violence.

The Second Nascent Moot Court Competition was held on October 16, 2011. It was judged by: Mr. Amitesh Mishra, Partner, Karanjawala & Co.; Mr. Abhinav Mohindru, Solicitor, England and Wales; Ms. Nilanjna Guha, Senior Associate, Paras Kuhad and Associates, New Delhi; Mr. Rishi Anand, Senior Associate, Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff and Co. New Delhi; Mr. Aneesh Patnaik, Senior Associate, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India;Mr. Manan Verma, Associate-Adv. Krishnan Venugopal, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India;Mr. Kaushik Mishra, Associate- Adv. Gopal Jain, New Delhi; Mr. Matthews Verghese, Advocate, IT Gurus, New Delhi; Mr. Keshav Ray Choudhuri, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Mr. Adab Singh Kapoor, Associate, DSK Legal, New Delhi; Mr. Nikhil Kanekal, Legal Correspondent, Hindustan Times;  Mr. Hasan Murtaza, Associate, Mulla and Mulla, New Delhi; Mr. Anand Dang, Associate, Indian Law Partners, New Delhi; Mr. Rohit Das, Senior Associate, R & A Associates, New Delhi; Mr. Suvajit Chakraborty, Young India Fellow, New Delhi; Mr. Nikhil Phulambarkar, Senior Legal Expert, Competition Commission,  Mr. Arjun Puri; Mr. Rohan Batra;Mr. Aman Sethi, Fellow, LAMP (Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament) Fellowship with PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi; Mr. Gurpreet Singh, Associate, Anand and Anand, New Delhi;  Ms. Anisha  Mathur; Mr. Mannat Wariach; Ms. Nayantara Devaya; Mr. Avinash Wadhwani; Ms. Nimrat Kaur.

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The third workshop for moot court training took place on Sunday, October 9, 2011 on ‘Oral Skills and Courtroom Mmannerisms’ by Mr. Adab Singh Kapoor, Associate, DSK Legal, New Delhi. The session was a fully interactive one where the learners got to know the skills about how to behave and speak in a courtroom scenario. Mr. Adab Singh Kapoor also let out several minute secrets to tackle and dodge past tricky situations of rebuttal passed by the opposition in the moot court competition.

The workshop was conducted by Mr. Harjot Vohra, Tax Consultant, Ernst and Young, New Delhi; and Mr. Rony O’John, Associate, Economic Laws Practice, New Delhi wherein the students were taught about the basic guidelines for the drafting of memorials which forms the basics of moot court competitions which gave them detailed idea about drafting a brief/memorial. The beauty of this presentation was explanation given by the speakers in simple legal language.