'BREVITY' IS THE SOUL OF JUDGEMENT WRITING.
“Natural justice necessitates full hearing, not a flood of words of forbidding length.” – Justice Krishna Iyer. As students of law, we often get weary of reading long expositions in judgments addressing minor or pre-determined issues. The true art of judgment writing should be brief and well articulated but the same must not be at the cost of clarity. In India’s current judicial scenario, the pronouncement of lengthy judgments has become a commonplace, and there has been a growing concern with the copy-and-paste trend in the Indian Judiciary that has been critically viewed by many jurists and practitioners worldwide. The true essence of judgeship resonates when the clarification, elucidation, and explanations of law with the rationality of facts are abbreviated and crisp. The great Justice Iyer in K. Kalpana Saraswathi v. P.S.S. Somasundaram Chettiar (1980) 1 SCC 630 while considering an appeal that consisted of voluminous Judicial manuscripts and arguments, di...