Build your first paying practice area. Learn motor accident claims from filing to appeal, and how this work comes to a young lawyer: insurer panels, claimant briefs and referrals. With a formats kit you can file from and a quantum calculator.
Your first paying practice area. Most young advocates spend their first years waiting for work and earning very little. Motor accident claims are one of the fastest honest ways out. The MACT docket is among the largest in the country. Insurance companies appoint panel lawyers in every district and pay per case. Claimant families need a lawyer who can compute their compensation properly and fight for it. This is work a junior can do in their own name, from the first year of practice.
How this work pays. The course shows you the three ways MACT work comes to a young lawyer: getting empanelled with insurance companies, taking claimant briefs where the fee follows the award you win, and becoming the junior a senior trusts with MACT files because you can compute quantum and draft everything yourself. The closing session is devoted entirely to building the practice: empanelment applications, fee structures and referrals. You leave with documents you can file, not just notes.
What you learn. One claim, end to end, the way it actually runs before the Tribunal: the accident and the DAR, the claim petition, the insurer's written statement and defences, evidence and cross-examination, computing compensation for death and injury claims, judgment, execution and appeal. There is a live drafting workshop where your own draft is reviewed session by session. Your teacher is a practising MACT defence lawyer who does this work every week. Guest sessions by practising advocates cover cross-examination technique and new-age evidence like dashcams and vehicle data.
Fully up to date. This law has changed three times in five years: the 2019 Amendment, the Jan Vishwas Act, 2023, and the Jan Vishwas Act, 2026, which added a twelve-month condonation window to Section 166(3). Digital evidence now runs on Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam. Most practitioners have not caught up yet; you will be ahead of them.
How it runs, and what you take away. Six weekends, 12 September to 18 October 2026. Twelve live sessions on Saturdays and Sundays, 7:00 to 8:30 PM IST, so court and classes are never disturbed. Every session is recorded. Classes are in English with Hindi used freely, the way district courts actually sound. The formats kit: claim petition, condonation application, written statement, Section 170 application, Order VI Rule 17 and impleadment applications, evidence affidavit, Section 63 BSA certificate, appeal memo, execution application and an empanelment application, plus a working quantum calculator on Sarla Verma and Pranay Sethi lines and cross-examination planning sheets. A CLRS Certificate issues on completion.
Adv. Gyan Prakash Kesharwani is a practising advocate whose court work centres on motor accident claims, appearing for insurers and owners before Claims Tribunals. He holds an LL.M in Intellectual Property Laws from National Law University, Jodhpur, and is pursuing his PhD on the Motor Vehicles Act at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. He designs and teaches the certificate programmes at CLRS Academy.
