Can an appellate court substitute its own judgment as to the proper award for damages in the context of defamation?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Angle v. LaPierre, 2008 ABCA 120 (CanLII):
Appellate review of damages in the context of defamation precludes an appellate court from substituting its own judgment as to the proper award merely because it would have arrived at a different figure: Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130 at para. 158.
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