All-women team from SASTRA wins SAARC Moot
SASTRA Law School team were adjudged winners over the Sri Lankan team from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo.
Team Careers360 | March 23, 2021 | 04:28 PM IST
NEW DELHI: An all-women team from the SASTRA School of Law comprising three final year students of the 5-year Integrated LLB programme - Thejaswini CB, Pavitra M and Kavitha Ravi - won the sixth Prof NR Madhava Menon SAARC Law Mooting Competition organised by Lloyd Law College, Noida.
The SAARC Moot saw the participation of 18 law schools from India, Srilanka, Bangladesh, UAE, Maldives, Afghanistan. In the final round, the SASTRA Law School team were adjudged winners over the Sri Lankan team from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo.
The moot problem was on an environmental law issue involving the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The final round was judged by a constitutional bench comprising Justice Shiran Gooneratne (Judge, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka), Justice Piyush Agrawal (Judge, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad), Justice Siddharth Mridul (Judge, High Court of Delhi), Justice Rajesh Bindal (Judge, High Court of Calcutta) and Justice Dinesh Pathak (Judge, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad).
This is the second time that the SASTRA Law School is winning this coveted moot court competition in the last six years.
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