VEŠTINA PISANJA PRAVNIH AKATA – PRVOSTEPENA PRESUDA U PARNIČNOM POSTUPKU
THE SKILL OF LEGAL DOCUMENTS WRITING – JUDGMENT BY COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE IN CIVIL PROCEDURES

Summary/Abstract: A judgment is a court decision by which it is judged authoritatively, finally and on the merits on the application for judgment, and by which a dispute is resolved. A judgment is a very important legal document that sublimates the whole procedure; it is a logical completion that clearly, unequivocally and without doubt presents and defends the conclusions the judge comes to by evaluation of the evidence. Unless what is written in the judgment is adequate or worthy of what is previously done, the entire work up until the judgment remains valueless. Being the crown of the whole process, a verdict must be of high quality, clearly, precisely and logically presenting conclusions reached by the court after an extensive procedure. It is not enough that the judgment is legally correct – it should be linguistically and grammatically correct, easily readable and understandable. What is said in the court and how it is said is as important as what is decided. For a high quality judgment it is necessary to combine writing skills and legal knowledge.In this paper, the author analyzes constituent parts of a court decision in a civil procedure, pointing out to methodology behind its drafting, some of the most common errors, as well as particularities and rules of legalistic style as imperatives when writing the judgment.

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