Rationale:

Our aim is to groom the learners to enable them to develop, sharpen and enhance the civil litigation practice and procedural skills. It is to simulate real time court proceedings, training in civil practice and procedures and to promote and sustain unified spirit to ensure the development of advocacy finesse.

Learning Outcome-Career potential after doing this course:

• A fresh law graduate would not require devoting his precious time in learning the practical aspects of civil litigation. The qualification would enable the beneficiary to be able to start dealing with civil litigation from day one of his enrollment at Bar.
• Civil law practitioners usually do not take up jobs, so the ultimate goal is to build their own practice which is time consuming and very hard. So after going through rigorous course one is expected to rapidly increase.
• This diploma course provides practical knowledge and know-how to young future lawyers who intend to make a mark in civil litigation
• It is great refresher course under the guidance of experienced civil lawyers to set upgrade knowledge of the basics and sharpen important skills.
• The course is not a mere theoretical study but hands on practical lessons where one will have to draft a lot of documents such as petitions, replies/written statements and applications.
• The course is tough and intensive. The participants will not be awarded the diploma unless the complete all the exercises.
• The trainer will focus on the personal attention of each and every participants and each of them will get individual feed back in relation to the exercises assigned.

Duration required for completing the qualification:

It’s one year diploma course wherein these will be lectures scheduled 3 days a week, total 144 hours of learning through online teaching/training classroom sessions, lectures through visual aids- PPTs, notes, texts of different legislations in criminal law topics with reading material and exercises followed by evaluation

Areas/Enactments Covered:
1. The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
2. The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
3. The Limitation Act, 1963
4. Civil Rules and Order

Who can apply?

Any Law graduate/Law student pursuing law from any University/Law College/Law School recognized by the Bar Council of India can apply for this diploma course.

Minimum age: Minimum age of 18 years

Evaluation Criterion:

Assessment will be done by adhering to the guidelines of National Skills Qualification Framework.

• 50% scoring will be considered to be as qualifying marks
• 70 & above-Distinction
• 60to 69%-First Class
• 50 to 59% Second Class
• Below 50-Fail

Curriculum & Training Plan: Online Diploma Course in Civil Litigation Skills of Practice & Procedure (CLSPP)

CURRICULUM	MODE	DURATION
MODULE-I: PRELIMINARY STEPS FOR LITIGATION		30 hours
Understanding the stages of litigation	Online	6 hours
How to draft legal notice or respond to one	Online	4 hours
Where and how to file suit	Online	6 hours
How to authorize your representative	Online	4 hours
Abbreviations, tagging and nomenclature of different kinds of petitions by court	Online	4 hours
Case study of unique High Court Procedures	Online	2 hours
Exercise followed by evaluation	Online	4 hours
MODULE-II: PLAINT AND WRITTEN STATEMENT		20 hours
How to draft a plaint	Online	2 hours

Types of relief in prayer	Online	2 hours
How to quantify monetary reliefs	Online	2 hours
How to draft a written statement and reply	Online	4 hours
Filing related work	Online	2 hours
Service of process	Online	2 hours
When do you need to look at High court and Supreme Court rules	Online	2 hours
Exercise followed by evaluation	Online	4 hours
MODULE-III: HOW TO DRAFT VARIOUS APPLICATIONS		20 hours
Interlocutory petitions	Online	2 hours
How to draft application for Representative suit, addition or substitution of parties, amendment of pleadings, rejection of plaint, setting aside ex-parte decree, temporary injunction, attachment and arrest before judgment	Online	8 hours
Appeals and revision against orders and decrees	Online	4 hours
Hearing of interlocutory applications	Online	2 hours
Exercise followed by evaluation	Online	4 hours

Basics of burden and standard of proof	Online	8 hours
How to prove a document	Online	4 hours
Discovery and inspection	Online	8 hours
Preparation of questions for examination-in-chief and cross- examination and re-examination	Online	8 hours
How to submit evidence by way of affidavit	Online	4 hours
How to adduce electronic evidence and how to get call detail records or data from facebook, google and other data available with third parties.	Online	4 hours
Exercise followed by evaluation	Online	4 hours
MODULE-V: ARGUMENTS AND HEARINGS		34 hours
Creation of arguments	Online	8 hours
Execution, Appeals and Revision	Online	6 hours
Drafting of execution petition, first appeal, review petition, second appeal	Online	8 hours
Litigation strategy and case management	Online	8 hours
Exercise followed by evaluation	Online	4 hours