Students pursuing a full-time 3-year LLB or 5-year LLB program from a university or institute recognized by the Bar Council of India are eligible to apply, subject to the respective colleges and institutes criteria and conditions.

Students enrolled in post-graduate diploma or short-term certificate courses in law are not eligible to participate

Cross-institute teams are not permitted to participate in this competition.

NUMBER OF TEAMS

The Organizing Committee will accept a maximum of 25 teams on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Competition consists of qualifying rounds and knock- out rounds (Semi-final and Final rounds.)

COMPOSITION OF TEAM

A team consists of three participants: Client, Counsel, and Mediator.

Participants may change roles within their team only after prior intimation and approval from the Organizing Committee.

The Mediator of a Team shall not be paired with his/her own team in any of the Prelims (I & II) - i.e. the Mediator of a Team will be a competing unit separate from the Negotiating Pair (Attorney & Client) of the same team, hence there shall be no Team- Wise Marking. Therefore, there may be cases, wherein the Mediator of a Team qualifies for the other rounds, but the Negotiating Pair of the same team doesnt - or vice versa.

MEDIATION PROBLEM

The Mediation Problem(s) will be accessible to the teams after the closing of the registration window. The Confidential Information will be provided to the teams 20 minutes before the rounds

TIME DURATION

a. Preliminary Round 1 and 2: 30 minutes.

b. Semi-Final Round: 30 minutes.

c. Final Round: 60 minutes.

LANGUAGE

The official and only language of the competition is English.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

Team Registration fees-Rs.500/- (Mediation)

PRELIMS

The Participating Teams shall qualify from the Prelims I & II in the manner described below in detail:-

All the Participating Teams shall appear twice in the Prelims - once from the Requesting, and then from the Responding Side, in the Prelims I & II - as per the Draw of Lots.

The Negotiating Pair of each Team - consisting of the Attorney/Counsel and the Client - will be marked together as a unit, while the Mediator of each team shall be marked separate from that team’s Negotiating Pair.

QUARTER- FINALS AND SEMI - FINALS

After appearing once from each side (Requesting & Responding), in the Prelims I & II, the Top 4 Mediators and the Top 4 Negotiating Pairs, with the highest scores from the Quarter-Finals, will advance to the Semi-Finals. Both the rounds in the Semi- Finals will be held parallelly - in 2 Mediation Rooms (M.R.s). In the Semi-Finals, the Qualifying Negotiating Pairs will be allotted a side to represent - Req. or Res.

FINAL ROUNDS

The Final Round after the Semi-Finals, the Top 2 Mediators and the Top 2 Negotiating Pairs, with the highest scores from the Semi-Finals, will advance to the Final Round. In the Final Round, the Finalist Negotiating Pairs will be allotted a side to represent - Req. or Res. - on the basis of the toss of a coin