When will an appellate court decline to interfere in a trial decision?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cooper v. Cooper, 2001 NFCA 4 (CanLII):
In fact, in declining to interfere in a trial decision an appellate court applies self-imposed restraints that promote certain broad principles that underlie the judicial system.[4] These include the policy of promotion of finality of litigation. See the extensive discussion of these issues by Marshall J.A. in Pardy et al v. Dobbin et al. 2000 NFCA 11 at paras. [15]-[16].
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