Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Nicholas Kearnsconsiders how judgments should explain the law in the 21st century WHILE IN Australia in the summer I chanced upon an interesting biography of Robert ...

A judgment, the top court has held, must not confuse the reader using the veneer of complex language because it “speaks to the present and to the future” in settling crucial issues of law, besides ...

The aspect of concise judgment writing is a matter of critical concern and there is enough literature, both Indian and foreign, on this subject (Editorial page, “The art of writing a judgment”, July ...

The Judiciary has rolled out a new Shs2.2billion judgment writing tool aimed at reducing the country’s case backlog, which currently stands at more than 167,353 pending cases across various courts.

When it comes to judgments, judges might look to novelist George Orwell's rules of writing, including "not to use a long word where a short one will do", according to a new book on judgment writing by ...

The Supreme Court has said incoherent judgments have a serious impact on the dignity of judicial institutions and suggested guidelines based on a formula to be followed by the constitutional courts ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the constitutional courts to structure their verdicts in a litigant-friendly language, saying "the purpose of judicial writing is not to confuse or confound the ...

The Supreme Court has asked the constitutional courts to structure their verdicts in a litigant-friendly language, saying "the purpose of judicial writing is not to confuse or confound the reader ...

The fate of the governance of the National Capital Territory of Delhi was decided earlier this month by the Supreme Court. But one had to pore over 500 pages of widely awaited judgment in order to ...

From the inquisitive nature of man flows the desire to know what is in the mind of others. This is particularly so when the actions of those others are capable of affecting our lives in one way or the ...