The Aditya College of Law Moot Court Society shall primarily be comprised of the following committee:

The Moot Court Committee: The Chairperson, the Faculty Coordinator/s and such number of student members appointed/nominated by the Chairperson/Faculty coordinator for assisting the faculty in charge/s will constitute the Moot Court Committee. The committee will be responsible for the overall functioning of the moot court society. The students in the committee continue to hold their position in his/her capacity until such a time as the Chairperson in consultation with Faculty Coordinators deems fit.

Members:The students who have participated in the intra-moot court competition to get registered for the moot pool shall be the members of the Moot Court Society.

Chairperson:It shall refer to the Principal of the Aditya College of Law. The Chairperson shall always continue to be the member of the Moot Court Society.

Faculty Coordinators:It shall refer to the members of the teaching faculty at Aditya College of Law. They shall be appointed by the Chairperson to supervise and assist the working of the moot court society

Selection of the student members of the moot court committee:The selection of the students to the moot court committee shall take place in the following manner.

1. The Chairperson, in consultation with the faculty coordinators, shall select such number of students who have represented the college at various national and international level moot court competitions and have diligently assisted in the organization of programs/competitions organized by the Moot Court Committee.

1. The membership of the student shall be withdrawn if the minimum attendance criteria are not satisfied except on genuine grounds.
2. The student members in the Moot Court Committee can be removed from their positions if they are found to be non performing and considered as a burden in the committee or involved in activities that warrant a suspension. The decision of the Chairman shall be final in this regard.

1. Intra-college Moot Court: Every year at the beginning of the odd semester an intra-college moot court competition shall be organized. Participation in this moot court competition shall be mandatory for first year students and the students wishing to take part in any moot court competition outside the BMS College of Law. Out of all the students participating, a specific number of students shall be shortlisted as being eligible and shall constitute moot pool.
2. At the beginning of every academic year, the Moot Court Committee shall compile a list of all the major upcoming moot courts in the following year.
3. Each student shall be allowed to participate in at least one moot court competition per semester subject to approval of faculty coordinators
4. In the event, two or more members interested in participating in the same moot court competition, the team will be decided by the screening in the mock moot. The decision of the Faculty Coordinators shall be final in this regard.
5. In the event where a team brings to the notice of the Moot Court Committee, a moot court competition that has not been listed in the calendar of upcoming moot courts, and wishes to participate in it, then they may be allowed to do so. The decision of the Moot Court Committee shall be final in this regard.
6. The Society shall also convey to all the members, in the General body meeting, the results of the recently concluded moot court competition in which students of Aditya College of Law took part and also the details of students who will be taking part in upcoming moot court competitions.
7. The Society may make available to the participating students, books for research from the ACL library through a separate account.
8. Furthermore, the Society shall always try and ensure that the provisions of this constitution are adhered to unless there are pressing reasons not to do so.

All the provisions in this Moot Court Society rules can be amended by the Chairperson or any such faculty member authorised by the Chairperson.

RESIDUARY CLAUSE:The residuary power lies with the Chairperson or faculty coordinator authorised by the Chairperson with respect to any matter/issue/rule not enumerated in the rues of moot court society.

MEETINGS:There shall be a General Body meeting for the members of the Moot Court Society for at least twice in a year.

Rules for representing ACL in National/International Moot Court Competitions.

1. The Moot Court committee shall organize Intra-College Moot Court competition for every academic year for selecting student members to the Moot Court Society through moot pool.
2. The members of the Moot Court Society shall only represent the college in National and International Moot Court Competitions, subject to the approval of the Moot Court Committee and the Chairperson.
3. As a part of the selection procedure for individual competitions, the Moot Court Committee shall organize screening rounds for International/ National Moot Court Competition to select students to represent the college in the competitions. Students qualifying the screening rounds will be eligible to represent the college in the competitions.
4. The Moot Court Committee shall decide International, National Moot Court Competition for participation by ACL students in an academic year based on the reputation of the competition. The committee shall shortlist National/International Moot Court Competitions in an academic year and students shall be allowed to participate in these listed competitions only, subject to the discretion of the faculty coordinators.
5. International, National Moot Court Competition will be notified to the students by the student coordinators of the moot court society through announcement in classes and the same is displayed on the college moot court notice board.
6. The students who are eligible shall register their name with faculty coordinator within the time as announced by the student coordinators of the Moot Court Committee.
7. The team selected after screening process to represent the ACL in a Moot Court Competition shall be under the guidance of the faculty member of the Moot Court Committee.
8. The selected team must report/consult with the allotted faculty member for guidance and then prepare their memorials, subject to the satisfaction of the faculty member with the time prescribed by the faculty member.
9. Any member of the selected team shall be replaced in case of poor performance in preparation for the Moot Court Competition on recommendations of the faculty members by the Chairperson
10. Confirmation of participation in the Moot Court Competition is subject to satisfaction of the faculty coordinators of the Moot Court Committee regarding the preparation of the team, without which the registration stands cancelled.
11. The team registered to represent the college in a Moot Court Competition shall, under no circumstances, change its members without the approval of the allotted faculty members and the permission of the Chairperson.
12. Students representing the college in National Moot Court Competition shall be reimbursed the expenses incurred for registration, memorial and travel, based on their performance in the respective moot court competitions by the college, upon application to the Principal to be forwarded through the faculty in charge of the team.

Runners/Winners = Registration Fee + 50% of the travel expenses incurred*

Semi Finalists = Registration Fee + 50% of the travel expenses incurred*

Best Memorial = Registration Fee + 50% of the travel expenses incurred*

Quarter Finalist / preliminary round = Registration Fee only

13. Students shall be eligible to represent the college in International Moot Court Competitions if they have participated in at least two National Moot Court Competitions subject to any screening process and to the discretion of the Chairperson.
14. Students representing the college in International Moot Court Competitions happening outside India shall be reimbursed the expenses incurred for registration only by the College. The expenses incurred for travel, accommodation and memorial charges will be borne by the students.
15. The maximum number of moots that a student can participate in semester is restricted to two exclusive of the ADR and Client Counselling Competitions.
16. The Maximum number of days a student can incur exemption from the classes for participating in moot court competitions/ ADR Competitions shall not be more than 15 working days during a semester. The exemption given for each competition shall not exceed 7/8 days.

*(Travel expense means ticket’s fare only from Bangalore to the place of event and back. The ticket fare shall be reimbursed on submitting the original tickets through the coordinator of the Moot Court Society after scrutiny. Mode of transport may be any (Bus/Train/Air) but the reimbursement shall not exceed the fare/charges charged by the Indian Railways for AC-III travel. Any changes effected to this clause shall be only on the approval of the Chairperson/Principal).

The modern world is full of challenges, it is not just sufficient for students to be sound in theory but also requires practical learning. The purpose of the Commerce Forum is to empower students with academics and technical knowledge.

• To expose students to meet the challenging needs of corporate world
• To encourage students to manage various events
• To build self- confidence and proactive approach
• To increase financial literacy among students
• To generate and discuss new business ideas, business plans, and current issues
• To build a competitive mindset for the students

• Special Lecture & Guest Lecture
• Industrial Visit for Practical Learning
• Group Discussion
• Latest updates, which help the students in developing the personality

• To conduct and attend regular meetings
• To engage in a wide variety of Commerce forum activities
• To organize events/ programs/fests at collegiate and inter-collegiate levels

Object  Aditya College of Law initiated Community Support Service (CSS) to provide financial, Health and Hygiene, Blood donation support for needy people. The Community Support Service (CSS), aims to inculcate empathy among students, develop a love for serving others and be instrumental in bringing about positive societal changes. Learning through service is an effective educational tool, which will create empathetic leaders of tomorrow who will not only be leaders but become community builders with a problem-solving approach. Our Institution focusing on contributing to our society in the way of giving financial assistance and moral support to needy people and also focusing on the holistic development of the community. The activities planned by the clubs and community are designed to channel the energy and enthusiasm of the young minds to become more creative and productive.

Context Community service is an important way to pour back into the place where you live, people that have made an impact on you, or neighbours that happen to need a helping hand. People are eager to give back to the community. All they require is the right opportunity. When done in some fun and effective ways, community service can engage people and make them come back to it again and again. ACL Started connecting with the various NGO’S and Institution to help needy people through collecting some donation from the students and staff. ACL conducting various donation drives for community services i.e Food drive, Health and Hygienic, Blood Donation, Mental Health and Happiness programmes etc., Under the pillar of Contributing to Society, The students will involve themselves in community service activities through various Clubs and Committees i.e. N.S.S., Red Cross Society, etc., within the ACL and also with numerous NGOs partners.

Practice Various types of donation drives carried out in our Institution for the upliftment of the community.

Blood Donation Drive Blood donation has been considered as the most auspicious of donations, which not only inculcates the values towards caring others but also provides substantial support to humankind otherwise not possible with any wealthy contributions. In most of situations, valuable human lives cannot be saved due to unavailability of blood or blood donors. The initiative of the Institution to incentivize blood donor students mainly focused on this urgent need of the society as well as to inculcate the values, which will make them responsible citizens. Aditya College of Law, organises a blood donation drive in association with Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST). Youth Red Cross unit coordinated the blood donation drive in association with NSS unit. To the noble cause our Students, Faculties and Staff from Institution donated a blood.

Donations to Transgender Welfare Aditya College of Law as a law school treating everyone as equal even to help the transgender and sexuality minorities (lgbtqi++) organizing donation drive in association with NGOs. Helping financial assistance for their basic needs and amenities.

The Space for Dream NGO is run by Akkai Padmashali.( permission has to be taken)  The organization is emphasizing for the need to have safer space for vulnerable communities like intersex, transgender and sexuality minorities (lgbtqi++) and sex workers by constructing a training center to the one who are facing many insecurities and social injustice in society. The main aim of the organization is to provide the leadership qualities and confidence among them. The cost of building is very expensive and requires lots of funds. Our Institution conducted a donation drive to help this NGO to build a training centre to Transgender Community.

Outreach Activity in Association of People with Dissability ; Outreach activity was organized in collaboration with – The Association of People with Disability (APD) and Vakila Vahini on March 11, 2023.( permission has to be taken). The staff and students of ACL donated Sanitary Napkins and other health and hygiene products along with some juices, biscuits, and some snack items, which were distributed to the students in the program. Various activities were performed by the students of BMSCL to entertain the children throughout the program. There was actually Inclusive education in true sense, as in each 80% students were specially abled and 20% normal children. Most of the programme put up by the institution was from these specially abled children.

• Convincing donors to give regularly can be difficult.
• Donors have so many opportunities to support.
• We understand many want to help but are not sure if it will create a financial burden to donate.
• Lack of Value with respect to community service.
• Income and Financial sustainability.
• Challenging to handle academic and Community service programmes.
• Students active involvement is less in community service.
• Reaching community is difficult.

Objective The Consumer Law, Advocacy and Research Centre (CLARC) of Adity College of Law is a wing with multidimensional purpose, to serve general public by creating awareness about rights and the government initiatives and providing legal advice to obtain justice, to assist the government to collect data about the needs of the citizens and ensure their initiatives are reaching public and helping students, our budding future lawyers to gain some field exposure and some hands on experience. CLARC seeks to achieve this objective through conducting independent research, field studies and publications, organization of extension activities, seminars and workshops. Further it is also intends to widen its network by involving other stakeholders and the general public.

The Context Consumer are the life blood of every organization. There can be no business without a consumer. Unlike the traditional markets which were product oriented, modern market is customer oriented. However, business sometimes fail to realize it and in their hunt for profit, end up harming the interest of the consumers. The Government of India granted certain rights to consumers under Consumer Protection Act 2019. As citizen, it is the duty to be aware of these rights and as a law school it is duty to spread awareness to help people realize their rights. Aditya College of Law keeping in that mind has established the Consumer Law, Advocacy and Research Centre (CLARC) during 2019 with the assistance of Consumer Rights, Education and Awareness Trust (CREAT) .( permission has to be taken). To achieve the goals and object of the CLARC to give awareness on consumer rights it’s really important to know the consumer laws and consumer awareness making sure the buyer or consumer is aware of the information about products, goods, services, and consumers rights. Consumer awareness is important so that buyer can take the right decision and make the right choice. Consumers have the right to information, right to choose, right to safety.

The Practice Organizing Conference, Seminar and workshops:

1. The CLARC is organized Seminars and workshops to invite eminent personalities to give knowledge to our students, faculties and our institutional staff to know about their consumer rights.

Student research and survey:

The Consumer Law, Advocacy and Research Centre (CLARC) encourages the students to conduct research and survey related to consumer rights.

Walkathon and Survey:

Walkathon, survey on consumer rights was also conducting by students to create consumer awareness to general public. During the survey, students interact with shopkeepers and street vendors and creating awareness about the rights of street vendors according to the Street Vendors Act, 2014 and creating awareness about the provisions of the new legislation Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

Walkathon and Survey on the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day,

• It’s very important to do effective research in any filed and a researcher should be aware about the research skills. A faculty member should have good experience of empirical research in the field of consumer rights to guide students to get good research results.
• For the advocacy of consumer rights, the Centre need eminent practicing advocates to guide students in procedural aspects.
• The financial assistant is very much important to conduct research, the Centre faced difficulties in getting funds to conduct research related to consumer issues.
• Consumer advocacy is mostly of field research which requires lot of time and same is not possible for the students due to time constraints and it is difficult to manage research and academic effective in a given time.
• The hurdle faced by the students during the research in the field of consumer behaviour is data analysis which needs expertise knowledge and same is lacking among students.

Aditya College of Law in its pursuit of academic creativity and excellence in the field of research has established an independent Research Club to imbibe research skills among students and faculties to encourage them to take up minor research projects and other research activities. The minor research project by students will be done under the guidance of faculty members. The legal research is an integral part of law college which increases the overall students understanding of academic research and make original contribution in the field of law. The club will nurture the collaborative research work between faculty members and students in various disciplines. The research activities aims at active involvement of students and faculties in research centric activities for better understanding of socio legal issues and to motivate them to contribute in legal field. The Research activities also provide opportunities for students to participate in conferences, workshops, symposium, etc and to take up small research surveys to address the socio-legal issues. The main objective of the club is to promote independent research among students and faculties. Minor Research Project is funded by the Institution and any eligible students and faculties may apply for financial support with well-prepared proposals at any time during the academic period through the research club.

The ACL Journal of Law is the publication of Aditya College of Law, Bangalore bearing ISSN 1111-1111. It is an annual, peer-reviewed journal encouraging multi-disciplinary research in law, Humanities, Business Studies, Commerce and Management.

The ACL Journal of Law is the publication of Aditya. College of Law. It is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide access to legal research.

The Journal aims to publish research papers, articles, and book reviews pertaining to various domains of law. The ACL Journal of Law also encourages and invites research work from multidisciplinary areas such as Law, Commerce and Management, Humanities, Business Studies etc.

The Editorial Board of the ACL Journal of Law (ISSN Number 1111-1111) is inviting submissions for Volume II. All submissions will go through a rigorous review process and possible editing by the Editorial Board. .( permission has to be taken)

1. We accept submissions under the following categories:
2. Short Articles: 1500 – 5000 words
3. Long Articles: 3000-5000 words
4. Case Comments: 1500 – 3000 words
5. Book Review: 800-1000 words

Word Limits are exclusive of footnotes. Articles exceeding the word limit may be considered on merit, solely at the discretion of the editorial board

2. Who Can Submit
3. Academicians/Practitioners
4. Advocates/Judges
5. Research Scholars/Students

1. Authorship:Co-authorship is allowed to a maximum of one additional co-author.
2. Originality:All works must be original and unpublished, original and devoid of any kind of plagiarism. Any form of plagiarism will lead to disqualification from publication
3. Language:Contribution shall be in English only.
4. Cover Letter:All manuscripts must be accompanied by the cover letter with the names(s) of the author(s), institution/ affiliation, the title of the manuscript and the corresponding author’s contact information.
5. Conflict of Interest:“Conflicts of Interest” placed just before the reference list. If no conflicts exist, the authors should state: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
6. Copyright: The Copyright of the contribution made for the publication in “ACL Journal of Law”, shall solely remain with Aditya College of Law, Bengaluru.
7. The Authors will be solely responsible for any dispute arising out of the manuscript including copyright, defamation, objectionable content or contempt and agree to suffer the loss, if any, caused by violating copyright or any other rights.

1. Submissions are to be made only in electronic form and must be made via a Google form which can be accessed here.https://forms.gle/WWWW//WWWR//RR
2. The manuscripts shall be submitted with plagiarism reports generated through software such as Turnitin, Urkund, Drill Bit etc. and the scanned copy of the author declaration
3. All submissions are to contain an abstract, of not more than 200-250 words including 5 keywords accompanying the article. The abstract must be at the beginning of the article. Please refrain from sending abstracts in separate Word documents.
4. By submitting an article, the author undertakes that the article is an original work and has not been submitted, accepted or published elsewhere.
5. Plagiarism will result in summary rejection of the submission.

1. All submissions must follow the 21st edition of The Bluebook Citation Style. (A Uniform System of Legal Citation) Non-conformity will be a ground for rejection
2. Submissions must be in Times New Roman font, with size 12 and line spacing 1.5.
3. All footnotes must be in Times New Roman font, with size 10 and line spacing 1.
4. The submissions of manuscripts must be made in .doc/.docx formats only.
5. The documents must not contain any identification markers. E.g., the name of the author after the title, or any other metadata on Word.
6. Preparing Figures, Statistics, Schemes and Tables: All Figures, Schemes and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearances (Figure 1, Scheme 1, Figure 2, Scheme 2, Table 1, etc.). All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
7. Corresponding author will be updated on the status of the review of their piece. In case you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to reach the Board atlawjournal@acl.ac.in
8. Certificate of Publication:The E-Certificate of publication is given to all the authors published in each issue without any additional cost. The certificate is given to the authors as soon as the publication is live.

Declaration by the Author I/We do hereby declare that the article titled, “_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________” is an original work and not plagiarized. It is neither published before in its current or a substantially similar form, nor is the work currently being considered for publication by any other Journal/Conference Proceedings. I/We have read and adhered to the author guidelines of ‘BMSCL Journal of Law’. Signature of the author

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