What is the test for respect and respect for the jury's verdict in an appeal?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Calvin Forest Products v. Tembec Inc., 2006 CanLII 9298 (ON CA):
At the outset, it is helpful to reiterate that an appellate court must give great deference to a jury’s verdict. This proposition has been stated in many different ways, but none is clearer than the statement of de Grandpré J. in Olmstead v. Vancouver-Fraser Park District, 1974 CanLII 196 (SCC), [1975] 2 S.C.R. 831 at 839: All of the relevant cases make it abundantly clear that jury verdicts must be treated with considerable respect and must be accorded great weight.
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