Examined on Drafting — no single governing enactment, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023, Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, Code of Civil Procedure 1908. A skills paper: every pleading, application, bill and judgment is taught with its governing law and a complete model with fictional parties. Local court rules, court fees and prescribed forms are left in [brackets] — take them from the current rules of the court you file in.
This page is the map of the paper: every syllabus unit, the leading cases with full summaries, and the exam questions the paper actually sets.
Units
- Unit 1 · Civil Pleadings, Applications and Execution — Module I — plaint in a suit and a summary suit, notice of motion and affidavit, written statement, interlocutory applications, chamber summons, purshis and praecipe, and execution petition
- Unit 2 · Criminal Pleadings, Bail, Appeals and Inherent Powers — Module II — criminal complaints, complaints for dishonour of cheques, miscellaneous applications, bail, anticipatory bail and transit bail, memoranda of appeal and revision, and petitions invoking the High Court’s inherent powers
- Unit 3 · Appeals, Revisions, Reviews, Corrections and Consumer Appeals — Module III — civil and criminal memoranda of appeal and revision, review petitions, writ petitions, correction of errors in judgments, speaking to the minutes, and appeal and revision under the Consumer Protection Act 2019
- Unit 4 · Drafting Bills, Amendment Bills, Judgments and Orders — Module IV — drafting bills and amendment bills, and drafting judgments and orders