Summary- Legal News: On Thursday, the Supreme Court said the time has come to put in practice allocation of time for each arguing counsel in the courts and limit the number of pages in their written submissions to realise the commoners’ dream of the right of speedy justice. A three-judge bench headed by Justice SK Kaul said this while writing the postscript for the judgment relating to the Delhi assembly’s notice to a Facebook official seeking his appearance before its Peace and Harmony Committee.
The bench referred to the practice of lawyers competing with each other in elongating their oral arguments and supplementing it by written submissions which are often thicker than the original petitions.
The SC said no other constitutional court in any country “allows such periods to be taken for oral submissions and these be further supplemented by written synopsis after that. Instead of restricting oral arguments, it has become a competing arena of who gets to argue for the longest time”.
Further, it stated that delay in judicial proceedings had been the bane of our country, and there can’t be a refusal to part ways from old practices, especially when they have outlived their purpose. It is the need of the hour to write clear and short judgments which the litigant can understand. The Wren & Martin principles of precis writing must be adopted. But how is this to be achieved if the submissions go on for hours on end”.
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