Part I Procedure etc. in Civil Courts

Appeals

8 Powers of Court of Appeal to award damages.

1

In this section “case” means any case where the Court of Appeal has power to order a new trial on the ground that damages awarded by a jury are excessive or inadequate.

2

Rules of court may provide for the Court of Appeal, in such classes of case as may be specified in the rules, to have power, in place of ordering a new trial, to substitute for the sum awarded by the jury such sum as appears to the court to be proper.

3

This section is not to be read as prejudicing in any way any other power to make rules of court.