How to draft a

‘Moot Court
Proposition’

Pooja bhide
iv b.a. ll.b
TODAY, WE'LL LEARN ABOUT...
1. Ways to draft a Moot Proposition

2. Structure and Elements

3. Things to be kept in mind

How Should I
Ways to go about it:
start?
1. Get inspired by a real life
instance; or
2. Imagine a scenario with
characters in your head and
then chose a problem; or
3. Chose a problem first, and
then build a story around
it (most convenient)
how to chose the Chose any subject area that
subject area? interests you. But be careful
while going for a
multidisciplinary problem. If
the case is for a small
competition or an individual
moot, generally very complex
subject areas are not
preferred.
 How long should it be? Or how
many issues can it have?
Drafters have the option of not explicitly
mentioning the issues. But, the case should
involve at least 2 or 3 major issues. Provide a
scope to the participants to build issues on
valid law points as well and not just sections.
Inter-dependent issues are also allowed.
rather, they are preferred and more
convenient while drafting the moot problem.
 Structure of a moot proposition

Background (scope to Procedural aspect. Shall

1. 4
hide relevant facts/ include relevant
arguments) sections
If an appeal, can chose to
Description of parties 5
2 and Brief history
mention reason for for
lowers court’s decision
scenario that gave 6 issues, or no issues
3 rise to the case. this
section must include Can limit the scope of
most of the relevant 7 arguments by mentioning
facts a note.
 THINGS TO BE KEPT IN MIND
-Always, try your best to keep the sides balanced.
Equal arguments/facts should be in favor of both the sides.
-Relevant Facts could be:
1. Favoring a side.
2. Common to both, interpretable
3. Silent.
-Ensure that questions are open-ended and invite argumentation
-An ambiguous statement could be used as an interrptable fact. But, too
many of these would would make an extremely vague case
Remember that drafting a Proposition for a Moot Court
involves much more legal research than participating in
one!!
A drafter also needs to submit along with the Moot
problem, a bench memo consisting of all the possible
argumemts.
....AND IT'S A
WRAP!
Thankyou for attending!
:)