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Certificate Course in Advanced Criminal Litigation & Trial Advocacy and New Criminal Laws by LawSikho: Fee, Duration, How to Apply

Certificate Course in Advanced Criminal Litigation & Trial Advocacy and New Criminal Laws

LawSikho

Develop criminal litigation skills with a Certificate Course in Advanced Criminal Litigation & Trial Advocacy and New Criminal Laws by LawSikho

Online

3 Months

₹ 48000

Inclusive of GST

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Medium of instructions English	Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom	Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based	Frequency of Classes Weekdays, Weekends	Learning efforts 6-8 Hours Per Week

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details

                                    Medium of instructions
                                    English

                                    Mode of learning
                                    Self study, Virtual Classroom

                                    Mode of Delivery
                                    Video and Text Based

                                    Frequency of Classes
                                    Weekdays, Weekends

                                    Learning efforts
                                    6-8 Hours Per Week
                                

Initiation of Criminal Proceedings

All about General diary, Case diary and FIR

What is a ‘general diary’?
What is a ‘case diary’?
What is a First Information Report (FIR)?
Who can file an FIR?
How to file an FIR?
How is an FIR different from a case diary?
What happens when the police refuse to file an FIR?
Mandatory filing of FIR
Delay in Filing FIR
Supreme Court guidelines on Registration of FIR
What is the importance of an FIR and how can one obtain a copy of it?

All about Criminal Complaints

What is a criminal complaint?
How is a complaint filed in a cognizable and a non-cognizable offence?
Who can be a ‘complainant’?
Where can a complaint be made?
How to draft a complaint?
Is there any limitation for filing a Complaint?
What can you do if the police have not registered your FIR or have not conducted the investigation well?
Can a Magistrate direct investigation under Section 156(3) when a private complaint is filed under Section 200 of the CrPC?
How is an FIR different from a complaint?

Exercises: Identification of offences, whether cognizable or not, whether bailable or not, and triable by which court.

Exercise: Drafting of Complaint

Post FIR Proceedings

Part I- Post FIR Proceedings

What happens after you file an FIR?
What is your role as a complainant after your FIR is lodged?
Role of a Lawyer after filing an FIR or after an FIR is filed against their client

Part II - Post FIR Proceedings

How soon shall an FIR be filed?
What are the consequences if an FIR is filed late?
What steps shall one take if a false FIR has been registered against him?
All about False FIRs
Is there any punishment for a person who lodges a false FIR against someone?
Whether a Police Officer can be held liable for deliberately or negligently lodging false FIR against a person?
Guidelines Laid down through judicial pronouncements for Police for registering an FIR
What is a Cross FIR?

Exercise: Getting an FIR registered on behalf of a client where police has refused to register an FIR

Exercise: Legal opinion to client who has been arrested

Arrest and Bail

All about Arrest

What is meant by arrest?
Who can arrest?
How is an arrest made?
In what cases can arrest be made without warrant?
How can a person prevent his arrest?

All about Warrants and Search Warrants

What is a warrant?
What is a search warrant?
What are the specific circumstances when a search warrant may be issued?
What are the remedies against a search warrant?
Who can issue a search warrant? How should a search warrant be made?
Who can conduct the search?
Who can conduct a search in a different country?
Who can conduct a search in India where a request is placed by an authority in relation to an offence under investigation outside India?
What are the rights of the person whose property is searched?
What is the procedure for making a search?
Utility of search-warrant from the perspective of the police

Bail and Anticipatory Bail (Including Remand)

What is Bail?
What is Remand?
When can anticipatory bail be applied for?
Which forum should be approached for bail?
Drafting Pointers for a bail application
Cancellation of bail
What are the typical conditions imposed by courts on bail and anticipatory bail
Bail bond and Sureties
How to challenge bail conditions imposed by a court?
Rejection of Bail
Stages when your bail can be rejected and what can be done in those situations?
Grounds on which a bail can be rejected and counter-measures for the same
Where shall bail be applied for after the application has been rejected?
Limitation and number of bail applications that can be filed

Strategic and drafting pointers for bail application

Strategic pointers to keep in mind before you draft a bail application
Drafting pointers for bail applications

Preventive Detention and Types of Custody

What is preventive detention
Procedure to initiate the process of preventive detention
When can a person be taken into preventive detention? Most important statutes which permit preventive detention
Rights of the person detained
Remedies for a person wrongfully detained
What are the different types of Custody?
What is police custody and judicial custody?
Difference between police custody and judicial custody

Release on Superdari

What is meant by Superdari?
What are the provisions of law relating to the disposal of property on Superdari?
Who can make an application for release of property?
What are the documents to be submitted to the court along with the Application for the release of the property?
What orders are passed by the court after filing the application for release on Superdari?
How is the property released from the custody of police and court?

Exercise: Drafting of a regular Bail Application

Exercise: Drafting of an anticipatory Bail Application

Investigations

Key Police Authorities

Hierarchy of Police Authorities
Who are the key police authorities who play a vital role in the investigation and further proceedings of the case?

All about charge and charge sheet

What is a charge? What purpose does it serve?
What is the object behind framing a charge?
What is a charge-sheet?
What is the difference between a charge and charge- sheet?
In which cases are charges framed?
What are the contents of the charge?
How does the court decide what to include in a charge?
How are charges framed in two different offences?
How a charge is framed when it is doubtful about what offence has been committed?
What happens after the charges are framed?

All about discharge

Different types of trials under CrPC
Discharge in sessions trial
Discharge in warrant cases triable by the magistrate
Discharge in summons cases
What is the difference between discharge and acquittal?

Protest petitions

What is a protest petition?
What is the procedure after filing the protest petition?
What is to be done if the protest petition is rejected?
How is a protest petition beneficial to the complainant?
Tips for drafting Protest Petition
Observations and practical tips

How to impound passport of an offender to prevent him or her from escaping India

Can a passport be impounded?
When and whose passport can be impounded?
Can the police impound someone’s passport before any kind of prosecution mechanism has been launched?
Can any authority other than passport authority impound a passport?
Can anyone other than the police make a request to impound a passport?

Exercise: Drafting of a discharge application

Trails

Difference between summons and warrants case

What is a summons case
What is a warrants case
Types of warrant trials
Consequences of the trial of a summons case as a warrant case and vice-versa
Differences in the trial process of summons and warrants cases
Conversion of a case from one form to another
When two offences, one amounting to summons case and another amounting to warrant case are tried together

Difference between magistrate trials and sessions trials

How to find out whether the offence is triable by Sessions Court or Magistrates’ Court
Gravity/seriousness of the offence and sentencing power of the court
Filing of complaint to be before magistrate only for all complaints cases
Cognizance in Magistrate Trials and Sessions Trials
Sessions Court conducts only one type of trial, there are multiple types of trials conducted by Magistrate’s court
Acquittal after prosecution evidence
Other differences

What are the powers of a magistrate upon receiving a final report?

When does a trial commence and what are its stages?

Stages in a criminal case

Evidence

How to adduce secondary and digital evidence?

Proof of notice to the opposite party to produce the original document
In certain conditions even notice is not required
Other conditions to be proved to adduce secondary evidence
Special conditions for adducing digital evidence

Burden of Proof and Standard of Proof

What is the standard of Proof?
What is a “Burden of Proof”?
On whom does the Burden of proof lie in different circumstances?
What are the defences the accused can take where the burden of proof to prove his innocence falls on him?
Reverse Burden of Proof

Presumptions that can be made by the Court

What is a Presumption?
What is the level of proving/disproving a fact to compel a court to make positive or negative inference regarding a fact?
Can we challenge the court's presumption in the court of law? If yes, how?

Prohibition on hearsay evidence and exceptions

What is meant by ‘Hearsay Evidence’?
What is The validity of hearsay evidence under Indian law?
What will be treated as direct evidence?
Why is hearsay evidence not admissible as evidence?
Exceptions to the rule of inadmissibility of hearsay evidence
Hearsay evidence can be used to corroborate substantive evidence

Consequences of influencing and tutoring witnesses

Prohibition of threatening of witness
Procedure of recording statements and confessions of witnesses
Consequences of threatening a witness
Hostile witness
Admissibility of evidence obtained from a hostile witness

Digital evidence and the law

What is Electronic Evidence?
How can electronic evidence be produced before the court?
How to produce emails as evidence before the Court?
Acceptability of electronic evidence in arbitration proceedings
Presumptions regarding electronic evidence
Penal provisions

Exercise: Preparing for Chief-examination based on FIR registered and evidences on record

Cross-Examination

Cross- examination

What is cross-examination?
When can a person be cross-examined?
Who can be cross-examined?
What is the importance of cross-examination to a lawyer?
Myths about cross-examination

Techniques and skills in cross-examination

Importance of preparing for a cross-examination
How to prepare for a cross-examination? (steps with examples)
What type of questions should be avoided?
How to object to questions from the opposite side in a cross-examination?
What questions can not be asked from the witnesses

Cross-Examination in Special Circumstances

Cross-examination of sensitive witnesses (minors, mentally unstable people, etc.)
Guidelines for holding trial of a child sex abuse or rape
Value of the testimony of a minor (i.e. someone less than 18 years of age)
Testimony by a prosecutrix
Cross-examination of dumb witnesses
Cross-examination of statutory witnesses and authorities (e.g. police officers, assistant commissioner of GST, executive magistrate)

Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses

Canons of Cross-Examination

Exercise: Questions for cross- examination based on the chief examination of a witness

Appeals and Revision

Appeal and Revision

How to handle your first appeal case?
Format of the Appeal
Details and Samples of the Different Components of a Criminal Appeal
Common Mistakes
Criminal Revision

Procedure for filing Revision

What is the purpose of the criminal revision?
What is the difference between appeal and revision?
When can a revision be filed?
What kind of procedural defects can be treated as grounds for filing a Revision?
What are the cases in which Revision cannot be filed?
In which court can a revision be filed?
Who can file a revision? What are the pointers to remember while filing a revision application?
What is the limitation period for filing a Revision Application?

Exercise: Drafting of a Special Leave Petition against an order of the Court

Drafting Work in Criminal Litigation

Important and most commonly used applications under the CrPC

Application for placing facts on record
Application for discharge
Application seeking exemption from the personal appearance of the accused
Application under section 207, CrPC
Application under section 91, CrPC
Application for monetary compensation for victims

What are the important applications for submitting information to the Court

Application for initiation of criminal proceedings or during an investigation
Application for evidencing appointment as a lawyer
Applications around the commencement of trial
Miscellaneous applications
Some general pointers for drafting the important applications

Petition for quashing under section 482 of CrPC

What does Section 482 of CrPC provide?
Principles governing the exercise of power under section 482, CrPC
When can the High Court quash the FIR by the exercise of its inherent powers?
Section 482 and Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
Section 482 and Anticipatory Bail Application
Can the High Court use its inherent powers to quash an FIR for a non-compoundable offence on the ground of compromise between parties?
When shall you advise your client to move an Application/Petition under Section 482?
Recent and landmark judgements

Vakalatnama

What is a vakalatnama?
For how long is a Vakaltnama valid?
What is the relevance of the Vakalatnama?

Exercise: Draft a quashing petition under section 482 of CrPC

Special Legislations

Proceedings under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, and the recent changes
All about Domestic Violence Act
Crimes against Women – Recent Changes in the Indian Law
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
Exercise: Legal opinion on matters related to section 498A of CrPC
Exercise: Drafting of complaint under section 12, 18, 19, 20, of DV Act
Exercise: Drafting of Application under section 23 of the DV Act

Litigation Strategy, Filing and Case Management

Elements of a Powerful Litigation Strategy
Choice of Forum and Sequence of Actions
Court set-up, infrastructure and court officers
Cause lists, hearings and passovers
Commonly made drafting and filing related errors
How to liaise effectively with senior counsel, local counsel and legal counsel in special forums
How to defend yourself in white-collar crime cases
Availability of compounding, plea bargaining and settlement procedures
Pricing and Billing
Case Management
Exercise: Create a litigation strategy for a high net-worth individual whose relative died due to medical negligence
Exercise: Create a defense strategy for an MD accused of a white collar crime

How to Thrive as a Criminal Lawyer

Types of Work Done by a Criminal Lawyer

Types of Work Done by a Criminal Lawyer
Role of a Trial Lawyer
Role of an Appellate Lawyer
Emerging Areas and New Career Opportunities in Criminal Litigation
- Regulatory offences
- White-collar crime
- Other emerging areas
Challenges faced by freshers when they start litigation
11 things that law books don’t teach about criminal law Challenges faced by Litigators in the initial years
Is it advisable for a young litigator to do all kinds of disputes in the first five years of practice
Ethics and Morals in practice
Building an understanding of Criminal Law practice
Managing client expectations
Inspiring client confidence
Billing or recovery
Exercise: Write an email responding to a client’s situation, what steps need to be taken and in which situations. Explain timelines, possible outcomes and costs wherever possible.
Exercise: Prepare an invoice for services provided to a client

Templates

Anticipatory Bail Application
Template - Bail Petition
Appeal Sample
Chargesheet
Complaint to magistrate (where police doesn’t register FIR) for directions to commence investigation
Criminal revision
HC Revision Petition against ASJ ORDER
Invoice format
Legal Opinion
Petition for Quashing Under section 482 CrPC
Protest Petition Draft
Recording Letter
Sample - Deposition
Sample affidavit u/s 65B of Indian Evidence Act
Sec.138 complaint
Section 138 complaint - Template 2
Section 65 application
Template: Section 65B
List of Documents (Domestic Violence Act)
Application Under Section 23 of Domestic Violence Act
Application under Section 12 DVA with Supporting Affidavit

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