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In campus war of legal wits, Pak students win Indias case - Express India
When three budding Pakistani lawyers won their brief on a Delhi campus today, they succeeded in establishing the case that decades of official Indian diplomacy and legal erudition have struggled to make. The legal point in question: validity of Kashmirs accession to India and Kashmiris right of self-determination. The battleground: a moot court on campus at National Law University (NLU) in Dwarka.
A high profile bench of sitting and retired justices and advocates declared Ayesha Bibi, Asmatullah Kakar and Arbab Muhammad Amjad of Balochistan University winners of the unique India-Pakistan Moot Court Competition organised by the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) and NLU.
The Pakistani law students successfully defended the Indian position on Kashmir against their opponents from Amity Law School, Noida, who argued Pakistans case.
The aim of the contest was to encourage clarity on the issue and help law students of the two countries to transcend their respective national discourses and identify the issues involved under the four constitutions of India, Pakistan, and the two sides of Jammu and Kashmir.
Thirteen students from law schools in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Balochistan participated in the competition. There were teams from eight law schools in India, including a team from Srinagar. There was a team from Muzaffarabad as well.
Last year, we held an Indo-Pak lawyers conference. The lawyers talked about scores of legal issues that are unresolved. There were issues that even the top legal experts of the two countries had not heard of. Prof Madhava Menon gave this idea and we decided to hold this moot court competition where law students would interact and help bring fresh ideas, said Sushoba Barve of CDR. We are hoping to continue this exercise.
The five-member bench that decided the winner of the competition comprised Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of Delhi High Court; Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, retired justice of Pakistans Supreme Court; Justice Bilal Nazki, former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court; and Talib Rizvi and R S Cheema, senior advocates in the Supreme Courts of Pakistan and India respectively.
Only one Pakistani team the one from Balochistan reach the semi final of the competition, where it successfully defended the Indian position on Kashmirs accession against a team from Jindal Global Law University. The Pakistani students repeated their success with New Delhis brief in the final against another Indian team a reversal of roles that seemed to have been enjoyed by everybody.
When three budding Pakistani lawyers won their brief on a Delhi campus today, they succeeded in establishing the case that decades of official Indian diplomacy and legal erudition have struggled to make. The legal point in question: validity of Kashmirs accession to India and Kashmiris right of self-determination. The battleground: a moot court on campus at National Law University (NLU) in Dwarka.
A high profile bench of sitting and retired justices and advocates declared Ayesha Bibi, Asmatullah Kakar and Arbab Muhammad Amjad of Balochistan University winners of the unique India-Pakistan Moot Court Competition organised by the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) and NLU.
The Pakistani law students successfully defended the Indian position on Kashmir against their opponents from Amity Law School, Noida, who argued Pakistans case.
The aim of the contest was to encourage clarity on the issue and help law students of the two countries to transcend their respective national discourses and identify the issues involved under the four constitutions of India, Pakistan, and the two sides of Jammu and Kashmir.
Thirteen students from law schools in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Balochistan participated in the competition. There were teams from eight law schools in India, including a team from Srinagar. There was a team from Muzaffarabad as well.
Last year, we held an Indo-Pak lawyers conference. The lawyers talked about scores of legal issues that are unresolved. There were issues that even the top legal experts of the two countries had not heard of. Prof Madhava Menon gave this idea and we decided to hold this moot court competition where law students would interact and help bring fresh ideas, said Sushoba Barve of CDR. We are hoping to continue this exercise.
The five-member bench that decided the winner of the competition comprised Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of Delhi High Court; Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, retired justice of Pakistans Supreme Court; Justice Bilal Nazki, former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court; and Talib Rizvi and R S Cheema, senior advocates in the Supreme Courts of Pakistan and India respectively.
Only one Pakistani team the one from Balochistan reach the semi final of the competition, where it successfully defended the Indian position on Kashmirs accession against a team from Jindal Global Law University. The Pakistani students repeated their success with New Delhis brief in the final against another Indian team a reversal of roles that seemed to have been enjoyed by everybody.
