A jury verdict on workplace negligence and statutory breach will not be set aside where it was open to the jury to find that a supervisor's direction to escort a violent client was reasonable in the circumstances, and that any procedural or documentary failures lacked causal significance because the supervisor would have acted the same way regardless. The inscrutability of jury verdicts means the appellate court must proceed on the basis that the jury took the view of the evidence most favourable to the respondent.
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