What is the standard of review for police misconduct cases?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Green v Ratnasingam, 2016 ONSC 2546 (CanLII):

The standard of review is correctness on an error of law, palpable and overriding error for an error of fact, and correctness or palpable and overriding error for a question of mixed fact and law, depending on whether there is an extricable legal principle: Wellwood v. Ontario (Provincial Police), 2010 ONCA 386 (CanLII) at para. 28. Background

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