[4] In 2019, a total of 50 teams qualified the memorial selection round with National Law University, Delhi getting the highest score.
[5] During the moot court, the teams are given 40 minutes in the preliminary rounds to present oral arguments before the judges, both for the petitioner and the respondent.
[3] The participants are judged on their ability to correlate the facts of the alleged crime with the laws that it has been booked under and to use different authorities and precedents to build and support one's arguments.
The final and semi-final rounds along with valedictory ceremony are held at the Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
The idea behind 2017's moot court problem was to make participants argue whether or not the actions and speech of a particular political figure qualified as seditious and could be punishable with the death penalty.
[6][7] It is set in a fictional democratic country Camelot which became independent in 1947 and adopted a federal constitution.