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.