When will a criminal conviction be admissible in a civil proceeding?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Baribeau v. Jakob, 1985 CanLII 3184 (ON SCDC):
They were in agreement also that to be admissible the conviction must be relevant to the issues in the civil proceedings; but that identity of issues is not essential; that lack of identity goes to the weight and significance of the conviction and not admissibility. In coming to that conclusion they were in disagreement with Royal Bank v. McArthur, supra, where Anderson J. held there must be a "clear and undeniable identity" as a condition of admissibility.
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