New Delhi, Jan. 5 -- Senior advocate Fali S Nariman said on Friday that while reading about the exhaustive and learned judgements on Kashmir recently, he has regretted that there was no dissenting view on the bench.

"On reading about the very exhaustive and learned judgements on Kashmir recently handed down by a constitution bench of five judges, my regret has been that there was no dissent," Fali Nariman said while speaking at the 28th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.

Nariman argued that though a dissenting view might not have made any difference to the outcome of the judgement, it would have helped the public understand the contours of the unique, complicated case.

"A dissent would have made no difference to the outcome but...