ntario Public Services Union v. Ontario

(Community Safety and Correctional Services),

2015 CanLII 36169 (ON GSB)

Wild was a corrections officer whose employment was terminated for

using excessive force when dealing with an inmate. He was acquitted of

criminal charges relating to the incident. The union applied for an order

that the Grievance Settlement Board automatically allow the employee's

grievances, on the basis that it must accept the decision of the criminal

court.

Did the Board automatically allow the grievances? Is an acquittal in a

criminal trial admissible in a subsequent civil trial as proof that the party

did not commit the offence? Why or why not?