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The South Asia Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition were held in Delhi India from 15-18 December 2011. Twenty-seven teams participated and the National Law University, Delhi emerged as the winner after a tightly contested final round with the National Law School, Bangalore. The top four teams, which also include the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, have qualified to participate in the International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court that will be held in Oxford in March 2012.

PCMLP held the first Oxford-India Media Law Moot Court Competition in Delhi from December 10-13, 2010.  The competition involved more than 150 students from 22 of the top law schools across India and 64 judges from different backgrounds. At the centre of the moot court is the development of a network that includes a variety of key stakeholders central to supporting and enforcing freedom of expression.

The overall aims of this three-year EU-funded project are to raise the profile of media law and policy not only within Chinese academic circles but also with the regulatory and government bodies tasked with media supervision and development. Seminars, meetings and research activities will result in greater clarity in terms of interpretation of the law as it relates to the media and specifically under the new Tort law, which will give greater confidence to the courts as they apply the law in media cases, and to the media groups in terms of knowing where the boundaries lie.