CS Professional - Drafting, Pleadings & Appearances study plan

Draft a complete sale deed of immovable property from a bare fact pattern, covering parties, recitals, operative clauses, covenants, and execution/testatum

Label and explain each structural component of a deed (commencement, recitals, habendum, reddendum, testimonium, attestation) in your own notes

Identify and correct ten deliberately defective clauses covering stamping, description of property, and ambiguity of parties

Build a one-page checklist for validating any instrument against the Indian Stamp Act and Registration Act requirements

Draft a leave-and-licence agreement and a lease deed from the same fact pattern, distinguishing the legal incidents of each

Draft a mortgage deed and a gift deed, stating the distinguishing formalities (consideration, delivery, attestation, registration)

Draft a power of attorney (general and special) and a will with an attestation clause

Compare the drafting of movable-property security documents against immovable-property documents in a written note

Draft a full set of board documents for one transaction: notice, agenda, minutes, and a certified true copy

Draft notices and minutes for a general meeting, including a special notice under section 115 of the Companies Act, 2013

Draft ordinary and special resolutions with correct wording, explanatory statement, and voting thresholds

Draft a board resolution by circulation and identify the procedural conditions for its validity

Prepare a checklist for compliance with section 118 and secretarial standards on minutes

Draft a shareholders' agreement covering transfer restrictions, tag-along, drag-along, and exit mechanisms

Draft a share purchase agreement with representations, warranties, indemnities, and conditions precedent

Draft a commercial lease and a distribution agreement, isolating the risk-allocation clauses in each

Redraft five poorly drafted indemnity, force majeure, and termination clauses to remove ambiguity

Map boilerplate clauses (entire agreement, severability, notices, governing law, arbitration) to their legal function

Draft a plaint in a suit for recovery of money, including cause of action, jurisdiction, valuation, and prayer

Draft a written statement with preliminary objections and specific denials, following Order VIII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Draft an application for interim injunction under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 with an affidavit

Draft a criminal complaint and a bail application, identifying the statutory provisions relied on

Draft a revision or appeal memorandum, stating the grounds concisely

Draft a written argument/synopsis of arguments for a civil appeal and a criminal appeal

Prepare a case-briefing template and brief three reported judgments using it

Draft an application under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (or the corresponding provision of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023) with supporting grounds

Prepare a list of documents to be filed with each pleading drafted in weeks 5 and 6

Practise oral submission of a five-minute opening statement from your own plaint

Compare the procedure and decorum requirements across a civil court, a criminal court, a tribunal, and a quasi-judicial authority in a written note

Draft a vakalatnama and an application for adjournment, and identify the professional obligations attached to each

Summarise the Bar Council of India Rules on advertising, fees, and conflict of interest as they affect drafting and appearance

Prepare a mock cross-examination outline and identify leading and impermissible questions

Draft a letter of engagement and a client-communication note on limitation and next steps

Revise all domain checklists and consolidate them into a single master checklist

Complete one timed drafting exercise per domain under exam conditions

Self-mark each exercise against model answer points and log recurring errors

Revisit the three weakest areas identified in the error log and redraft those documents

Compile a personal index of statutory provisions and formats memorised during the plan