Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS Comedian Mike Ward speaks to the media at the Court of Appeal of Québec in Montreal on Jan. 16, 2019. MONTREAL — Québec’s highest court largely upheld a human right’s tribunal’s ruling requiring a comedian to pay damages to a disabled singer he mocked, while overturning the part of the decision that ordered Mike Ward to also pay $7,000 to the victim’s mother. In 2016, Québec Human Rights Tribunal ordered Ward to pay $35,000 in moral and punitive damages to Gabriel based on comments Ward made during shows between 2010 and 2013. Ward joked that after he realized the child was not going to die, he tried to drown him. While it upheld the $35,000 in damages awarded to Gabriel, the Court of Appeal ruled that Ward should not have to pay $7,000 to the singer’s mother as previously ordered.

Source: Huffington Post November 29, 2019 13:09 UTC