Justice Sikri said almost 95 percent cases are those where the results were known and it is not difficult to decide them but 5 percent may fall in the category of "hard" ones, which pose professional challenge to judges.
"If those cases (5 percent) relate to vulnerable groups and marginalised persons, justice has to be 'pregnated' with mercy," said Justice Sikri.
"Judges are not not moral or intellectual giants, prophets, oracles or calculating machines. They are all human workers. But here intuition also plays an important role. I can say with some sense of authority and experience that judges are able to develop extraordinary intuitive powers, which normally lead them to right directions," he added.
He said "judges are bound by law of rules, but then there is rule of law. It is this rule of law that guides at such junctures to arrive at just and fair decisions."
He added that a judge needs to adopt "legal pragmatism" and a pragmatic judge assesses the consequence of judicial decisions for their fair bearing on sound public policy as he conceives it.
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