Guidelines for writing judgments: Supreme Court prescribes

Guidelines for writing judgments: Supreme Court prescribes:

"Unamused that an order passed by the High Court in challenge before it "is not only cryptic but does not even remotely deal with the arguments which were sought to be projected before it", the Supreme Court went on to prescribe the guidelines required to be observed while writing judgments. The rationale, the Bench noted, lied in the fact that "no doubt, it is true that brevity is an art but brevity without clarity likely to enter into the realm of absurdity, which is impermissible".

In this background, the Supreme Court laid out the guidelines for writing judgments in the following terms;

7. These guidelines are only illustrative in nature, not exhaustive and can further be elaborated looking to the need and requirement of a given...