Is there any case law or case law that supports the argument that a trial judge has a duty to make a decision based on expert testimony?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Blackstock v. Patterson, 1982 CanLII 435 (BC CA):
Counsel for the appellant placed great stress on the following passage from the judgment of Dickson J. in Lewis v. Todd, supra [pp. 267-68]: But the trial Judge, who is required to make the decision, must be accorded a large measure of freedom in dealing with the evidence presented by the experts. If the figures lead to an award which in all the circumstances seems to the Judge to be inordinately high it is his duty, as I conceive it, to adjust those figures downward; and in like manner to adjust them upward if they lead to what seems to be an unusually low award. (The italics are mine.)
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