Unit 2 of Practical Training – III: Moot Court Exercise and Internship (syllabus: Module II — attending and observing civil and criminal trials, observing live-streamed proceedings, and writing a report on proceedings attended). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- Which four stages of a trial must a student observe and report on?
- What are the stages of a civil suit, and what should be watched at each?
- When may a hearing be adjourned, in a civil suit and in a criminal trial?
- How does a Sessions trial proceed, stage by stage?
- Is a charge framed in every criminal trial?
- How should proceedings shown live be observed and reported?
- Why are leading questions barred in examination-in-chief but the basic technique in cross-examination?
- What must a court observation report contain, and how is it anonymised?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. s. 26 and Order IV; Order V; Order VIII Rule 1; Order X Rule 1; Order XIV Rules 1 and 2; Order XVI Rule 1; Order XVIII Rule 1; Order XX
- The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Order XVII Rule 1 and the proviso to Rule 1(2)); the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, s. Order XVII Rule 1 CPC; s. 346 BNSS
- The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, s. ss. 248 to 258; s. 351 (Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, s. 313)
- The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, s. ss. 232, 262, 263, 267, 268 and 274
- The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 - audio-video electronic means, s. ss. 251(2), 254, 308 and 355