DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

Law students of Patiala bring back the Leiden-Sarin Trophy after a tough international moot court competition in aviation law at Seoul, Korea.

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, won the Leiden-Sarin international trophy after a tough international moot court competition in aviation law at Seoul, Korea.

Ananya Sharma, a 3rd year student of the Army Institute of Law, Mohali, also brought glory to India by winning the prestigious award of the Best Oralist The only Moot Court in the field of Aviation Law in the world is the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition.

M L Sarin, Secretary General of the Sarin Memorial Legal Aid Foundation along with another Trustee Nitin Sarin and Ritesh Agarwal, who attended the competition, informed that 24 teams from 20 countries took part in this international event and the final was between the Singapore National University and the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala. Chief Justice (retd) S S Sodhi, the President of the Foundation, informed that the competition was judged by a panel

of judges from 46 different countries, who were experts in the field of Aviation Law.

The finals were judged by Mr Lauren Jan Brinkhorst, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Ms Siew Huay Tan of Singapore and Mr Sando Kim of Korea.

Mr Sarin informed that the judges found the Indian teams outstanding and they outshined the counterparts from other countries, including that from US, China, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Polant, Sinapore, Greece and France.

The proposition for the moot was an interesting aviation issues involving a collision between a manned civilian aircraft of one country and a remotely controlled drone from another country, which raised many questions involving the security and safety of the civilians, regulation of unmanned aircraft and issues of international law.

(editor@dailyworld.in)