Are full judgements read out in court?

cathy427

In the higher courts do each of the judges read out their full individual judgements? Have been reading some cases and given the huge length of some of them seems like it would take up a lot of time.

hullaballoo

When there is a written judgment, it is read out in court. Certain judges read at an unfathomable pace so as to get through them. Others read as quickly as they can.

Dandelion6

I've been in a couple cases where the court just announced which party they had found in favour of (or against), handed out the written judgment and then rose or moved on to something else.

The answer is it depends. Some judges read out the full judgment, others simply read out a part of it (they might skip the facts for example and just read out the law element) and many just indicate the outcome and hand out copies of the decision.

cathy427

OP here.

Thanks for that.

So is the answer it depends??

Or under the old courts structure did for for example the CCA do it differently to the Supreme Court.

cathy427

cathy427 wrote: »

OP here.

Thanks for that.

So is the answer it depends??

Or under the old courts structure did for for example the CCA do it differently to the Supreme Court.

Over the last 100 years the average length of a judgment has increased massively so while it may have been possible to read every judgment back thnto it just isn't possible anymore.

Every individual court has the discretion to deliver judgments however it pleases

johnnyskeleton

cathy427 wrote: »

OP here.

Thanks for that.

So is the answer it depends??

Or under the old courts structure did for for example the CCA do it differently to the Supreme Court.

Sorry about the vagueness, but wasnt there something about how the supreme court delivered judgment and so could just hand it down for people to read and hen just say briefly what the result was, but the High Court had to pronounce judgment and so had to read the thing out in court?