The appellant brought an action for defamation against the respondent newspaper after it published an article identifying him as a representative of the Jewish Mafia.
A jury awarded the appellant $135,000 in non-pecuniary damages, which the trial judge affirmed.
The Court of Appeal reduced the award to $13,500, finding the jury's amount unreasonable.
The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal and restored the trial judgment, holding that the jury's assessment was not so grossly inflated as to be unreasonable in the circumstances.
