What are the grounds at common law for refusing to enter judgment in accordance with a jury verdict?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from McLean v. Knox, 2011 ONSC 7298 (CanLII):
The narrow grounds at common law on which a trial judge may refuse to enter judgment in accordance with a jury verdict were also set out in Fasfous v. Provigo Distribution Inc., [2005] O.J. No. 4668 at paragraph 14: Accordingly, the trial judge must enter judgment consistent with the jury’s findings, unless the verdict is without legal foundation or utterly devoid of evidentiary support.
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