JUDICIAL WRITTING SHOULD BE EASY TO UNDER STAND LANGUAGE IS AN OBSERVATION OF THE HONOURABLE SUPREME COURT VERDICT TO THE HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT, AND NOT MEANT ONLY FOR JUDGES AND LAWYERS, BUT FOR THE LITIGANTS.

Honourable Supreme court of india cajoling constitutional court judges to shun complex language and pen judgements in an easy to understand flow and the supreme court sent back an incomprehensible verdict to Himachal Pradesh High court for fresh consideration saying judgements must make sense to litigants.A bench of justice DY Chandrachud  and AS Bopanna said use of complex and long sentences in the judgements defeat the efficacy of judgements and it's delivery as they confuse litigants as to how and why a court rendered a particular decision.Terminng the judgement of a division bench of HP High court incomprehensible and difficult to navigate through even for the supreme court judges who have spent more than two decades as constitutional court judges, the bench said,A litigant for whom the judgement is primarily meant would be placed even in more difficult position, untrained in the law ,the litigant is confronted with language which is not heard , written or spoken in contemporary expression.Further it is stated in the judgement that Language of the kind in judgement defeats the purpose of judicial writing and the purpose of the judicial writing is not to confuse or confound the reader behind the veneer of complex language.The bench said that the judgements have the precedential values and are not meant only for the judges and lawyers .

More so the primary job of language is to communicate as the judgements and orders often involves the common people and they should be intelligible to them .