The Hubris of Long Judgments (and the Folly of Long Submissions)

“We know that if we trim out all the highlighted case laws, pages and pages of it, and trim out the housekeeping pages (introduction, the ingredients of the offence, the definition of prima facie, the burden of proof, fakta kes, and other things that the judge may or may not need), we will have the argumentation at the heart of the submissions.

We should be spending more time and focus on this and not on housekeeping. I think housekeeping should be abolished.”