What is the standard for treating a jury verdict with awe?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from El Dali v. Panjalingam, 2013 ONCA 24 (CanLII):
Although the standard requires appellate courts to treat jury verdicts deferentially, it does not require that they treat them "with awe": Olmstead v. Vancouver-Fraser Park District, 1974 CanLII 196 (SCC), [1975] 2 S.C.R. 831, [1974] S.C.J. No. 129, at p. 839 S.C.R. Juries are not infallible. Occasionally, they make mistakes. When they do, an appellate court should intervene. This is one of those cases where appellate intervention is called for. (2) The jury's verdict on liability was unreasonable
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