JUDGMENT

KRISHNA IYER, J.— Writes A. G. Gardiner*, if we may start off with a strange flourish, that the supreme art is to achieve the maximum result with the minimum..... effort. It is the art of the great etcher who with a line reveals infinity. It is the art of the great dramatist who with a significant word shakes the soul. Schiller, said Coleridge, burns a city to create his effect of terror: Shakespeare drops a handkerchief and freezes our blood". For this requisite reason, brevity is the soul of art and justicing, including judgment-writing. must practise the art of brevity, especially where no great issue of legal moment compels long exposition, Therefore, we mean to be brief to the bare bones with a few facts here and a brief expression of law there, by adopting the technique which is simply the perfect economy of means to an end. For another reason also the need for parsimony exists. The court is in crisis, docket logged and fatigued. A judgment can be brief but not a blank and there is no reason to repeat the details of a case where there is an exhaustive statement in the judgment under appeal, as in this case. We adopt those long pages of judicial manuscript and abbrevi