Can a judge's charge be read as a whole?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Giesbrecht v. L. V. Wolfe & Sons (No. 2), 1946 CanLII 183 (SK CA):
The Judge’s charge must be read as a whole: Jones v. C.P.R. (1913) 83 L.J.P.C. 13, 110 L.T. 83. So read, the jury could not have been prejudiced or misled.
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