Northern Ireland

Abstract

the new hearings at first instance could reach the same decisions. Many judgements are circulated in draft to allow corrections and amendments, where necessary, before the perfected version is handed down. Given the importance of rigorous analysis and the impact of a failure to record this in the judgement, should the draft judgement be checked for analysis as well as for errors? It might require a bold advocate to ask a judge to ‘show your workings’ if a judgement is lacking, but it is clear that the appellate courts are not going to infer proper analysis if none is explicitly recorded.