This document provides tips for preparing for a moot court competition. It recommends thoroughly reading and understanding the moot proposition, being able to recite the key facts in your own words, and developing short notes to refer to during the competition. Extensive practice is emphasized, including practicing speaking, having others ask questions to prepare for different perspectives, conducting additional research, and understanding the background of the judges. Presentation skills like tone of voice, pace, and formality are also addressed. The overall goals are to demonstrate a strong command of the facts, law, and ability to think on your feet to respond to questions.
This document provides tips for preparing for a moot court competition. It recommends thoroughly reading and understanding the moot proposition, being able to recite the key facts in your own words, and developing short notes to refer to during the competition. Extensive practice is emphasized, including practicing speaking, having others ask questions to prepare for different perspectives, conducting additional research, and understanding the background of the judges. Presentation skills like tone of voice, pace, and formality are also addressed. The overall goals are to demonstrate a strong command of the facts, law, and ability to think on your feet to respond to questions.
This document provides tips for preparing for a moot court competition. It recommends thoroughly reading and understanding the moot proposition, being able to recite the key facts in your own words, and developing short notes to refer to during the competition. Extensive practice is emphasized, including practicing speaking, having others ask questions to prepare for different perspectives, conducting additional research, and understanding the background of the judges. Presentation skills like tone of voice, pace, and formality are also addressed. The overall goals are to demonstrate a strong command of the facts, law, and ability to think on your feet to respond to questions.
a. Have a print out of moot proposition with you. b. The more you read it, the more you are going to find arguments in your favor. 2. Facts in your own words a. The Judges have to mark you for this! b. Mistake: Participants read from the memorial (gives an impression that you aren’t aware of the facts) c. Cheat Code: Even the Judges don’t remember the entire proposition so you have to just pick up the most important points and recite the facts in a story format in easy words. Here try to build the interest of the Judges. d. Easy words + Explain as if are explaining a person who isn’t aware of anything. e. Assume that they don’t know anything. 3. Remember the facts a. You should not give an impression that you have mugged up everything. Remember you are a speaker not a reader. b. You should make your notes which are extremely short yet such that you are able to pick points from your notes, explain a bit and then pick another one (a flow chart king of thing will work) 4. Practice, practice and practice a. What to practice? i. Speaking before the mirror- Issue and submission Aim: Stop reading and start submitting or arguing b. How would it happen? i. When you speak- You will find that you do not have words for explaining certain things, you will find those words and eventually, you will see that you will gain confidence. 5. Ask your professors, teammates, batchmates, classmates, any lawyer friend to ask questions a. Different minds different perspectives b. More practice more confidence c. Every time someone would ask something that never imagined can be asked: Prepare that point 6. Conduct Research a. Though there is a researcher in the team who is dedicated towards extensive research but you should make sure that you equally participate in the research by doing so your knowledge base related to the moot proposition is going to increase. 7. Have a proper file with all the things that you need as a speaker (your docs) + Read, mark and make notes of everything a. Moot proposition – 1st doc – important b. Memorials (well marked, put flags) – Petition c. Notes ready d. Bare Acts or rules e. Judgements that you are going to refer to 8. Understand the background from where the Judges are coming a. Who are the Judges:- i. Advocates ii. Lawyers in law firms iii. Professors iv. Actual Judges b. Difference in questions i. Theoretical ii. More practical questions/Connect between the fact, law and the Judgements Remember they are there to grill you; they want you to loose patience and give up Prepare your arguments that way Try to answer with that mindset 9. To be patient, no anger, no irritation! a. Do not give up! b. Understand that the Judges are testing your patience in a way c. You need to be bold enough to give answers d. The facts + The law = Your backbone 10.Be formal when it comes to your looks! a. Mistake: Extreme i. Getting dressed up as if you are going to a wedding ii. Shoes not polished, no comb used and what not iii. Serious or not serious participant 11.Work on your tone a. Confident b. Polite c. Not too loud, not too low d. Pauses e. Bringing attention to important points f. Don’t be too fast or slow: create a balance 12.Go with the flow a. Aim or Mindset of the participant: To complete all the issues and the submissions b. What are Judges looking for? i. How well you are explaining things ii. How you are answering to the questions asked by them iii. Try to have good knowledge of the issues are to be dealt by the second speaker 13.Know for what you are being judged a. Knowledge of Facts and law b. Application of law to facts c. Ingenuity and ability to answer questions d. Presentation skills e. Time management and organization f. Court Etiquettes g. Logical coherency (interconnection) in Arguments