The NLIU Bhopal team has become the first team from India to win Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot Court Competition held at Singapore from March 29 to 31. The competition is regarded as the most prestigious global competition in insolvency law. The winning team comprised Aishwarya Srivastava, Udyan Arya, Christina Shaju and Kuhoo Mishra.
The NLIU Bhopal team defeated teams from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU), Leiden University of Netherlands, University of British Columbia from Canada and Queensland University of Technology of Australia among others.
The moot problem was based on UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency and saw many leading practitioners and learned academicians from across the world judging various rounds of the competition. The team qualified for world finals through a memo round. In Singapore, three preliminary rounds were followed by quarter finals, semi finals and eventually the finals.
The moot final was a fantastic display of appellate advocacy before eminent international judges: Judge of Appeal, Singapore, Justice Steven Chong; Southern District of New York, USA, Chief Justice Cecilia Morris and Supreme Court, India, Retd Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri. NLIU student Kuhoo Mishra was also adjudged as Best Mooter. She has been selected to observe UNCITRAL proceedings in New York/Vienna.
