6-Week Online Certificate Course on Civil Litigation and Drafting with Vidhitva Law Partners: Enrol by May 1

About Vidhitva Law Partners

Vidhitva Law Partners is a boutique law firm offering tailored legal, commercial, and regulatory advice across India and international markets. With strengths in transactions, governance, and dispute resolution, the firm combines legal rigour with commercial insight to deliver pragmatic, market-aligned solutions for complex legal challenges.

About Viaan Legal

Viaan Legal is a full service law firm based in India. The firm has its offices in 4 cities namely New Delhi, Gurugram (Haryana), Noida (U.P), Gwalior (M.P), Jabalpur (M.P) and has professionals specializing in areas such as Banking Law, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Commercial and Civil Litigation.

About LawMarg

LawMarg is an online legal education platform focussing on practitioner-led legal education exclusively on drafting excellence. It delivers expert-led online courses designed and taught by practicing lawyers from law firms and chambers, with a clear emphasis on real-world drafting standards.

Every LawMarg programme and course blends structured instruction with hands-on drafting, and live sessions that mirror how drafting is actually done in litigation and transactional practice. 

About the Certificate Course on Drafting, Pleadings, and Procedure in Civil Litigation

LawMarg is pleased to launch its Online Certificate Course on Civil Litigation & Drafting, in collaboration with Vidhitva Law Partners and Viaan Legal. This is a practice-driven programme built for law students, junior advocates, and early-career professionals seeking strong foundations in civil litigation drafting and court procedure.

Civil drafting is not about reproducing provisions of the CPC.

It is about structuring facts, framing disputes, anticipating objections, and drafting pleadings that hold up in real litigation practice.

This course is designed to mirror how civil litigation actually functions in practice—from institution of a suit to interim reliefs, trial, appeals, execution, and settlement—with sustained focus on structure, language, procedural compliance, and litigation strategy.

Eligibility

Law students (including LLM students), graduates, faculties, practitioners and any one interested.

Candidates with non-legal background are eligible.

Modules

Session 1: Introduction To Civil Litigation Drafting

• Overview of the CPC litigation process
• Role of pleadings in civil litigation
• Principles of legal drafting
• Material facts, cause of action, and relief
• Drafting defects and objections

Session 2: Drafting Of Plaint

• Structure and statutory requirements of a plaint
• Jurisdiction, limitation, valuation, and court fees
• Drafting cause of action and relief clauses
• Interim and consequential reliefs
• Practical walkthrough of drafting a plaint

Drafts Covered: Plaint

Session 3: Drafting Of Written Statement, Set-Off, And Counter-Claim

• Drafting of written statements
• Admissions, denials, and evasive pleadings
• Strategic use of pleadings in civil litigation
• Drafting set-off and counter-claims
• Common drafting mistakes in written statements

Drafts Covered: Written statement, Set-off, Counter-claim

Session 4: Interim Applications And Procedural Drafting

• Drafting injunction applications under Order XXXIX CPC
• Applications for stay, status quo, and ad-interim relief
• Urgency pleadings and supporting affidavits
• Drafting replies to interim applications
• Caveat under Section 148A CPC

Drafts Covered: Interim application, Stay application, Reply to interim application

Session 5: Drafting Of Affidavits In Civil Proceedings

• Types of affidavits
• Structure, language, and verification
• Affidavits in support of applications
• Procedural affidavits vs evidence affidavits
• Common defects and registry objections

Drafts Covered: Affidavits in support, Procedural affidavits

Session 6: Applications And Miscellaneous Pleadings

• Applications for amendment of pleadings
• Applications for condonation of delay
• Applications for production and discovery of documents
• Drafting vakalatnama and memo of appearance
• Order VII Rule 11 applications

Drafts Covered: Amendment application, Delay condonation application, Discovery application, Order VII Rule 11 application

Session 7: Framing Of Issues And Evidence Drafting

• Framing of issues under Order XIV CPC
• Strategic drafting of suggested issues
• Linking pleadings with evidence
• Drafting affidavit of evidence-in-chief

Drafts Covered: Issues, Evidence affidavit

Session 8: Advanced Drafting And Procedural Strategy In Commercial And Appellate Litigation

• Drafting civil and commercial appeals before High Courts and the Supreme Court
• Structuring grounds of appeal and jurisdictional challenges
• Drafting stay applications and interim reliefs in appellate proceedings
• Review petitions
• Procedural discipline and timelines in commercial litigation

Drafts Covered: Grounds of appeal, Stay application, Review petition

Session 9: Execution Proceedings

• Drafting execution petitions
• Modes of execution under the CPC
• Applications in execution proceedings
• Common drafting mistakes delaying enforcement

Drafts Covered: Execution petition, Execution applications, 

Session 10: Court Practice, Filing, And Litigation Strategy Across Forums

• End-to-end litigation strategy from institution to enforcement
• Drafting with the final appellate forum in mind
• Registry practice and procedural discipline
• Interface between civil courts, commercial courts, tribunals, and ADR
• Compromise applications and consent terms

Drafts Covered: Caveat, Compromise application

Session 11 (Bonus): Draft Review And Common Procedural Errors In Civil Litigation

• Structured review of key civil pleadings and applications
• Identifying and correcting common drafting errors (content, structure, formatting)
• Registry objections: formats, annexures, affidavits, pagination, vakalatnama defects
• Filing defects and practical strategies to avoid rejection at the registry stage

Perks of the Course

• Internship recommendations for 5 top performers
• Drafting and walkthrough of 20+ core civil litigation documents
• Fully practice-oriented live drafting sessions
• Step-by-step guidance on pleadings, applications, affidavits, appeals, and execution
• Drafting checklists and red-flag guides used in active litigation practice
• Career-focused understanding of how drafting quality impacts case outcomes and professional credibility
• ⁠Lifetime access to session recordings and materials 
• ⁠Certificate of completion/Participation/Appreciation

Faculties

1. Adv. Apoorva Agarwal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India
2. Adv. Abhirakshak Rajpal, Founding Partner, Vidhitva Law Partners
3. Adv. Ayush Singhal, Founding Partner, Viaan Legal
4. Adv. Aditi Gupta, Advocate, Supreme Court of India
5. Adv. Shikhar Nigam, Founding Partner, Vidhitva Law Partners

Duration

6 Weeks (Weekend Classes – Saturday and Sunday)

Timings: 7PM onwards

Enrolment Fees

• For students: Rs 999
• For professionals: Rs 1499

Last Date to Enrol

May 1

Enrolment Procedure

Click Here to Enrol.