From Court Room to Career:Benefits of Moot Court Competition

Introduction.

1)Concept.

Moot court is the pre practice stage where, before the commencement of official career, by participating in mooting the students gain the practical experience which sharp and boost the capability of the candidate in respect of research, confidence, speaking etc. and also widen their social circle.

So, Mooting is a significant step in the journey of every law student because here the candidate learns such tactics which assist them in future practice, obviously. 

2)Definition.

‘’ Moot court is the teaching court where the students of Law prosecute and defend the Hypothetical Cases for the purpose to gain practice and acquire experience for future career ‘’

3)Essentials of moot court.

1.Teaching court 

2.Law student prosecute and defend the hypothetical case 

3.Purpose to gain practice and experience 

4) Benefits of of Moot Court Competition. 

1.Boost legal Research skill.

Legal research is the art which importance can’t b deny because such skill have significance in every field of law either Teacher, lawyer, Blogger and judge etc. . . .

And when a person master of this skill then obviously he has bright future because by research he gain a countless knowledge which dominant his position in respect of other who are not efficient in research skill.

And ‘’ Mooting’’ is significant because that aid to boost legal research skill because when a participate in mooting to prosecute and defend a case he read lot of

1.case Law 

2.research paper 

3.books 

4.Newspaper and magazines etc. 

To prepare his arguments and that practice boost his research skill.

2.Boost confidence.

Confidence is the base of advocacy and to have a brilliant career in Law field the candidate must have a confidence.

Because, in spite of a lot of research it is impossible for human to have knowledge about everything due to human nature and in that situation the confidence is used as the excellent shield that maintain the dominancy of confident advocate on other.

And ‘’ Mooting ‘’ is significant because that boost the confidence of candidate by participating in mooting practice.

3.Boost understanding capability of Law.

During student life the pressure to cover a lot of syllabus in limited time restricts the student to the limited knowledge.

And that is impossible for student to read law deeply with commentary, student just rely on bare act language that is the great dilemma because it restrict the development of legal sense among students.

But mooting help to recover this deficiency because here the student thoroughly read the law along with commentary to prepare his case.

4.Provide guideline for career.

To choose career is the tough decision of every person life and at that stage people confuse obviously.

but ,mooting is significant because that also guideline the candidate about career choice 

because during research of mooting the candidate examine themselves and In which subject of Law they find their interest then further choose this subject for practice as a lawyer and to teach as Lecturer and can also write research articles on it .

5.Enhance Social Circle. 

mooting is not the one man army project for this a team of researcher s and presenters  are required 

And to complete this team the students interact with brilliant students as the result their social circle expend.

6.Polish speaking skills.

Advocacy is the game of argument and convincing if you have the capability to convince people by your argument then you have a bright career in Law field.

and for the strong argument the person must have the excellent communication skill also includes its body language and this skill is polish by participating in mooting because Mooting will teach you the art of keeping your arguments short and crisp

7.Develop sportsman ship.

mooting also help to develop sportsman ship because that encourage the healthy competition activity 

Sensibility, the one party loss and one party win but fail is the first attempt in learning so, the loss party by mooting knew about his shortcoming and try to overcome it and wining party also tries for further improvement.

Both parties take this as a healthy competition not the matter of pride/ego.

5) Conclusion. 

in briefly ,we can conclude that mooting prudence is based on that English proverb ‘’ No pain no gain ‘’ because during mooting tenure the candidate invest their energy and time ,conduct a lot of research so as the result of this pain in future they are capable to gain fertile result .

 

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