What is the role of the trial judge in determining a jury's verdict in a motion of appeal?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from LeBlanc v. Penticton (City), 1981 CanLII 431 (BC CA):
In any event, in my view, the weighing of the evidence in support of the verdict is something for the appellate court, not for the trial judge. In all of the cases cited to us, it was an appellate court which weighed the evidence and decided whether the jury in reaching its verdict acted reasonably and judicially, and determined either to uphold or reject the verdict: McCannell v. McLean, 1937 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1937] S.C.R. 341, [1937] 2 D.L.R. 639; Vancouver-Fraser Park Dist. v. Olmstead, 1974 CanLII 196 (SCC), [1975] 2 S.C.R. 831, 51 D.L.R. (3d) 416, 3 N.R. 326.
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