What is the impact of misdirection on a jury?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mazur v. Lucas, 2014 BCCA 19 (CanLII):
In assessing the impact of the misdirection, the charge must be considered as a whole and in conjunction with the entirety of the evidence and the jury addresses of counsel: Lennox v. New Westminster (City), 2011 BCCA 182 at para. 25, leave to appeal ref’d, [2011] S.C.C.A. No. 257.
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