In what circumstances will a jury consider an inflammatory address made by the then-President of the United States during the course of a trial?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Giang v. Clayton, Liang and Zheng, 2005 BCCA 54 (CanLII):
In Ross v. Lamport, 1956 CanLII 7 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. 366 at 375, Rand J. said: … An inflammatory address, in the proper understanding of that expression, is sufficient in itself to call for a re-assessment unless, among other things, it can be said that the amount awarded demonstrates that the jury could not have been influenced by it. …
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