About the Centre for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Victimology (CCV-RGNUL)
Centre for Criminology, Criminal Justice and Victimology (CCV) has been purposefully established under the able leadership of Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Vice-Chancellor, RGNUL, to provide critically and necessitated focus towards fostering the objective of carrying fundamental and applied research on the evolving aspects of the transformative criminal justice system including the dimensions of victimology and criminology as particular areas of interest.
About the Competition
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab’s Centre for Criminology, Criminal Justice and Victimology (CCV) is hosting its 1st RGNUL-CCV Legislation Drafting Competition, 2021.
This competition provides a platform where the best minds can come forward and critically utilize this opportunity of curating and drafting the legislative bills whereby experiencing the nuances of framing the law with the aim of encouraging the students towards the process of law-making and governance.
Topic & Scope
Participants have to draft legislation titled “Victims of Crime (Rights, Protection & Assistance) Bill.”
Bill that is to be drafted should inculcate those aspects that particularly deal with the rights, protection and assistance of a victim and each of the provisions should cover the operational and the procedural part with elaborative details on the extent of the Bill to show which all crime victims are covered within its ambit. The Bill should also cover those provisions that the drafters find incidental or ancillary to the topic of the Bill and thinks that certain provisions should come under the main theme of the competition.
Eligibility & Team Composition
The Competition is open to all law students pursuing LLM or LLB. (3-Year or 5-Year course from a recognized university within the territory of India).
Participants may register as individual or in a team of two. There is no restriction on the number of entries from any college or university. Multiple teams can participate from a single university.
Registration
Participants shall register themselves for the competition through the link given at the end of this post.
Submission Guidelines & Process
The Draft shall be in English language only.
The Draft shall not exceed more than 25 pages, excluding the cover page. 2 marks shall be deducted as penalty for each page exceeding the page limit.
The Draft should not reveal the identity of participants, in any manner whatsoever. For submission only the team code provided by organizers should be mentioned as mark of identity.
The Content of the legislature drafted should be original and not plagiarized (15% limit) or there shall be deduction of 1 mark each for every percent or can lead to disqualification. The decision of organizers shall be final.
The Submission must be made with the subject “SUBMISSION FOR LEGISLATIVE COMPETITION (Team Code-XX)” at competition.ccvrgnul@gmail.com
Submission after the given deadline would attract deduction of 1 mark for each hour.
Clarifications shall be sent to competition.ccvrgnul@gmail.com with the subject “CLARIFICATIONS FOR LEGISLATIVE COMPETITION: TEAM CODE-XX”
For detailed formatting and structure of the draft, kindly refer to the competition brochure.
Important Dates
Registration Starts: October 12, 2021
Registration Ends: November 10, 2021
Last Date to Seek Clarifications: November 15, 2021
Release of Clarifications: November 20, 2021
Release of Team Codes: November 22, 2021
Submission Date: November 30, 2021
Result Declaration: December 20, 2021
Prizes
All participants will receive a participation certificate which shall be sent by the organizers to the respective colleges on the official address provided or through the provided Email IDs.
Winners would be receiving cash prize in the following manner:
Best Team: ₹ 5,000
Runner Up: ₹ 3,000
2nd Runner Up: ₹ 2,000
Contact Information
Faculty Coordinators
Dr. Ivneet Walia
Dr. Gurneet Singh
Dr. Shruti Goyal
Student Members
Satrajit Somavanshi: 9140667691
Shreya Maloo: 9649704902
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