Can a jury’s verdict in a medical malpractice case be quashed?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Egan v. Andrychuk, 2022 BCCA 110 (CanLII):
Alternatively, there are cases such as Melgarejo-Gomez v. Sidhu, 2002 BCCA 19, where the verdict of the jury “suggests a misapplication of the relevant law”; where it is “so plainly unreasonable and unjust… that no jury reviewing the evidence as a whole and acting judicially could have reached it.”
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