Online Diploma in Case Law Research & Analytics

INTRODUCTION

This course includes in depth study of Case Laws delivered by various High Courts, Tribunals and Supreme Court of India. The diploma in CASE LAW RESEARCH & ANALYTICS (CLRA) provides a strong foundation and a launching pad for students looking to persue their career as law research analyst. The study of variable data point in the predefined case law elements enables the law research students to understand various weightage(data analytics) of data point that had the impact on the final conclusion of the case laws. This course also prepares the law students to have legal article writing that provides exposure to various BAREACTS and legal updates. This will provide a well-rounded training and learning new things, help to communicate better and opens minds to new ideas and ways of thinking. This Course will enable last-minute career change and help students to get closer to the career very fast. It will help earning name, fame and monitory benefits in a short span of time and take potential steps towards a bright career in the future.

COURSE NAME : Diploma in Case Law Research & Analytics
ELIGIBILITY : To Clear Certificate in Case Law Research Advance Level Course
DURATION OF COURSE : 6 Months
MODE : Online

LAWHUB provides Diploma in CASE LAW RESEARCH & ANALYTICS. The complete diploma course is conducted online and in 3 stages.

• STAGE 1 Research & Basic Analysis
• STAGE 2 Advance Research and Analytical Analysis
• STAGE 3 Research & Survey Analysis With Analytics.

The first and second stage is for performing research on the allocated case laws and work on various fixed and variable data points. Third stage of the course is for project work based on the research conducted by the law students and writing legal articles. Each stage of the research has to be completed in the stipulated time frame allocated for the subjects in each stage. Refer TABLE 02 for details of time frame allocated for each state of the complete Diploma course. Minimum passing marks in each subject should be achieved for successfull completion of Diploma course. Refer TABLE 07 for minimum passing marks. Incase a student fail to achieve minimum passing marks in any subject, re attempt on the same subject can be opted by the student. Re attempt fees for the relevant subject will be charged, Refer Table 08 for re attempt fees, Division for diploma is granted to student based on the aggregate marks achived in all subjects, Refer TABLE 03.

OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE

• To make students aware of the various pre-defined data points and variable data points that a judgment contains.
• To allocate the various pre-defined data points and generate various variable data points, beneficial for any research analysis that can pivot around the judgment or the conclusion of any case.
• To delve deep into legal research of hundreds of relevant cases and peruse thousands of pages of decisions to deduce the right cases that are in favour of their client’s motion or application.
• To know the opposing view and the case-law justification that may be presented to back up the opposing view, so that a defensive mitigation strategy can be prepared hence building the foundation for this strategy.
• Imparting deep knowledge of Judgments through studying and analyzing the judgment
• Drafting of plaint or written statement
• To stands out clearly on a resume of the student.
• Employers to appreciate continuous learners because it shows that the learner is always looking to progress and absorb new things, making a treasured benefit to any organization.

SYLLABUS

A. STAGE 1

This stage comprises of two subjects for research related with case law. In this stage research on case laws is to be conducted and with basic analysis that enable the student to generated the fixed data points in case laws. As part of case law research the students has to in depth study the allocated case laws in numerous times and for generating fixed data point. Basic analysis of various Indian Bare acts with key points in case laws. This will be needed to generate the summary (abstract) of the each case law.

FIXED DATA POINTS (LH001 ):

These are the fixed data points are available in each case laws. The fixed data points have to be submitted in the allocated field provided individual fixed data points. Weight age marks for each data point in the case law are as per Table 04 For marking the various fixed data point are grouped based on the time spent in and understanding the data points available is case laws. 500 Case laws are allocated to each student to generate the fixed data point for all the 500 case laws

ABSTRACT (LH002 ): Abstract for each judgments has to be generated by the students. Abstract should the most important points in a case law that can be like a summary of case law with most important point from various elements of judgments. The quality of the abstract and most important points has to be generated in the judgment abstract field provided. Minimum of 300 case laws from the allocated 500 case laws can be selected by the student. Marks for each abstract are as per TABLE 04. Students can always attempt more than 300 case laws to score high marks for achieving higher division in Diploma.

B. STAGE 2

This stage covered two subjects for research related with case laws. Mainly in stage 2 it covers case law segmentation and generating the elements in case laws. The variable data points of each generated elements is to be generated. This stage covers both research on case laws and case law analytics as weight-age in terms of numeric percentage value to be generated. These percentage allotted by student are the analytical values that has the impact on then complete case law mainly the conclusion of the case law.

ELEMENTS (LH003 ): Every case law comprises of predefined elements that makes the complete case law as verdict passed by the judges. Complete case law is deeply research and the various elements are segregated and generated for each elements. The Analytics for each elements are generated for each the case law and research students, should be given weight-age in percentage (%) against the scale of 100%. Sum of allotted % for each element should be 100%. The weight-age for elements should be given based on its importance in complete case law that forms the complete judgment and also its impact on final conclusion of judgments. The accountability of the % allotted by student for each element with sum of all percentage to be 100%, will have impact on marking. Minimum of 200 case laws from the allocated 500 case laws can be selected by the student. Marks for elements generated are as per TABLE 05. Students can always attempt more than 200 case laws to score high marks for achieving higher division in Diploma.

VARIABLE DATA POINTS (LH004 ): Variable data points are like important key words that has influence and an impact in complete case law. The variable data point is generated for each element that was generated in subject LH003. Each keyword generated for element should be given weight-age in terms of percentage. Minimum of 200 case laws from the allocated 500 case laws can be selected by the student. Marks for elements generated are as per TABLE 05. Students can always attempt more than 200 case laws to score higher marks.

C. STAGE 3

This stage is mainly the project work. This consists of two subjects. Legal articles writing and the Research project report that was covered in Subject LH001, LH002, LH003, LH004. Deep analysis of case laws and the analytical research of case law is the key of final stage of the Diploma course.

LEGAL ARTICLE WRITING (LH005 ):
This subject enables the student to research on various bare acts and ruling. The topic for each article will be provided and every student has to articles generated the article for the topics allocated for the students. The legal article for the topic should have in depth details for the topic. Various Bare Acts has to be researched which will assist in generating the legal article. The articles should be in between 1000 to 1500 words. Students are free to generate articles more than 1500 words with relevant information. Grammatical and spelling mistakes in the legal articles will be accountable for the marks obtained for each articles. Every student has to write 10 articles on the topics that are provided. Articles with various analytical data will always benefit student in acquiring higher marks for articles. Refer Table 06 for marks

COMPLETE RESEARCH PROJECTS REPORT (LH006 ): Complete Research Project Reports based on a pre defined project report format has to be submitted. The final projects reports is generated from the analysis of various research covered in each subject (LH001, LH002, LH0013, LH001) . The project reports should also generate various analytical data that were derived from the research analysis in the subjects covered in first two stages of the Diploma course. Refer Table 06 for marks

RESEARCH DURATION BREAK UP - TABLE -01

Re Attempt of Subjects - TABLE 08

* For re attempt fresh 500 hundred will be allocated to the student to do research.

COURSE CONTENT

A. Fixed Data Points

1. 1000 Judgments will be given.
2. For allocating Fixed data points student have to follow certain rules which are as follows:
a) Case Number- The number of the case as provided in the judgment
b) Jurisdicon of the Court- Original, appellate, Writs, Special Leave Jurisdicon, Advisory Jurisdiction, etc. according to the case.
c) Judges Name- As provided in the case
d) Bench-
• Name of One judge- Single Bench
• Name of Two Judges- Division Bench
• Name of Three or more Judges- Full Bench
• Constitution Bench- Constitution Bench
e) Advocates Name- As provided in the case for both the pares
f) Citation- As provided in the case( this is about the judgments published in various law journals
h) Disposition- As per the decision of the case

B. Abstract Writting
For Abstract writing there are some rules which the student have to follow, which are as follows:
• Name of the Act and Sections must be menoned.
• Facts of the Case in brief.
• Decision of the Lower Courts, High Courts, Tribunals and Supreme Court.
• Abstract must be written in past tense

C. ARTICLE WRITING:

1. Student have to write 15 Articles during the Course period containing 300-500 words each Article.
2. For Article Writing there are some rules which the student have to follow, which are as follows:
· Title of the Article
· Body of the Article which shall include 2-3 paragraphs
· Conclusion (Ending paragraph of the article with the opinion or recommendation,anticipation or an appeal)

D. VARIABLE DATA POINTS:
1. Variable Data points need to be generated on 30 Judgments during the course period.
2. Students have to choose the Judgment. Provided the Category should not be repeated until the uniqueness can maintained
3. Variable data Points are generated from the Judgment Elements.
4. Judgment Elements consists of:
· Facts of the Case- Matter in issue should be mentioned
· Ruling- Mentioning decision of lower courts and Tribunals if any
· Arguments- Arguments of the advocates
· Cases Referred- Mention the name and description of the cases referred.
· Decision and Reason- Decision and the reason of that decision should be mentioned of the Court under which the case was going on.
5. Everything must be plotted according to the elements. No change should be done during plotting of the elements.

Please note: Every judgment may not have all the above elements.

RESEARCH DURATION (DAYS) FOR EACH SUBJECT - TABLE 02

COURSE SUMMARY:

• Judgments delivered from various High courts and Supreme Court of India is provided for the research under this course to each student
• List of all the Indian bare acts are also provided for previewing
• Since Act and section imposed is the fulcrum of the judgments, the list of various act with sections are provided to each students doing research on judgment.
• A user-friendly web based interface is designed for each student to generate the various pre-de?ned legal data points of judgment. The interface also provides features to generate custom data point by each research that enable them to have a detail research analysis of judgments
• Analyzing judgments delivered by various High Court and Supreme Court of India.
• Students have to ?ll the related ?elds aer studying the judgments given in judgment body. On an average a student has to undergo 15-20 Judgments per day to complete the target of 1000 Judgments in 90 days. In case any of the Fixed Data Points is missing in full judgment text, student has to
• search on web and generate the missing data points. URL of the website to be submitted in the data point remark section of the interface. Extra marks will be given for this.
• For example, suppose citation, appeal number, etc. in allocated judgment is missing, the student have to dig out these data from judgments that can be found of various other website.

COURSE MARKING:

DIPLOMA RANKING DETAILS - TABLE 03 

STAGE -1 MARKING DETAIL FOR EACH SUBJECTS - TABLE 04

STAGE -2 MARKING DETAIL FOR EACH SUBJECTS - TABLE 05

STAGE -3 MARKING DETAIL FOR EACH SUBJECTS - TABLE 06

MARKING DETAIL FOR DIPLOMA CASE LAW RESEARCH & ANALYTICS - TABLE 07

FIXED DATA POINT MARKS BREAKUP FOR EACH DATA POINTS - TABLE 09