1 Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma National PIL Drafting Competition: Register by 10 October 2023

About Us

ADR, Drafting and Literary Society (ADLS) is an academic body which was constituted in 2022. It is a dedicated society which aims to provide a platform to students for the enhancement requisite skills in fields of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Legal Drafting, and Literary. The Society conducts training programs and workshops, honing the drafting and argumentative skills of nascent legal minds. It organizes through its faculty and student body, various competitions, thereby enabling students to participate in external competitions organized both nationally and internationally and bring laurels to the University.

PIL Dradfting Competition 

Rules and Regulation

• The competition shall be open for the students currently pursuing their bachelor’s degree in Law i.e. 3-Year LL.B. course or 5-Year LL.B. course from any recognized University/College in India.
• Only 24 teams for competition shall be entertained on A First come First serve basis.

Team

• “Individual Participation” as well as “Participation in a team of two” is allowed.
• Participants from two different universities may also form a team.
• The substitution of any Team Member is not allowed after the registration deadline except in extenuating circumstances and only with permission of the Organizer.

Registration Details

• The participating teams can register themselves by filling out the Registration Form:
• The participation fee for Individual is Rs. 300 and for a team is Rs. 500.
• Link to Register
• The payment screenshot must be attached within the registration form.
• After the successful registration, each participant or team shall be allotted a unique team code for further reference.
• Last day to register for the competition is 10th October 2023.
• If you are facing any problems in making the payment, kindly email us at “adls.univoflucknow@gmail.com” so that we could suggest some other methods for your convenience.

Queries

All the queries and clarifications must be sent to the official mail ID of the organizers i.e. “adls.univoflucknow@gmail.com” and the subject of the mail must read as “PIL COMPETITION QUERY”. No query without the subject “PIL COMPETITION QUERY” would be entertained.

Submission Guidelines

Topic of PIL

The participants may submit a PIL draft on any issue of contemporary relevance that they deem fit.

Submission of PIL Draft

• Each Participating Team must submit ONE PIL draft.
• If a participant/team wishes to submit any annexure to support his/her arguments contained in the Draft [for instance Reports, Commentaries, etc.] a compendium of all the relevant annexures must be prepared and should be sent along with the memorial.
• All PIL drafts must be sent to the email address: adls.univoflucknow@gmail.com in till 15th October 2023 , 11:59 PM with the Subject of the email as “PIL Draft, Team Code”
• Any submission made after the deadline will not be considered for evaluation.
• Any submission with any name reference of the participant will be disqualified.

Formatting Guidelines

• All the drafts must be submitted in both Microsoft Word Documentformat (.doc/.docx) and PDF Format (.pdf) [i.e. each participant is required to send 2 files One in MS Word format and one in PDF format].
• The body of the submissions must be in the font “Times New Roman” with font size 12, with line spacing of 1.5, and justified. (The Font size for the Headings can be formatted as per the choice of the participants)
• The Footnotes shall be in Times New Roman, size 10, single line spacing, justified. Authorities shall be cited as per the Bluebook 20th Edition.

Prizes

• Cash prizes of Rupees for WINNER:- 3,000 & RUNNER UP:- 2,000 shall be awarded to the Winner & Runner Up holders respectively.
• 3 month SCC online subscription will be provided to both the Winner and the Runner up holders.
• All the participants shall be awarded Certificates of Participation and Merit based on their respective performance.

Contact Details

President
Arzu Nayab : +91 8840229968

Convenor
Ankit Rai : +91 8853920063

Joint Covenor
Himanshu Kumar Singh : +91 9336009843
Participants can also mail their queries to us at: adls.univoflucknow@gmail.com