Winnipeg’s former chief administrative officer is interesting a call by a Winnipeg choose that ordered him to pay $1.1 million to the town.
Legal professionals for Phil Sheegl filed the enchantment on Monday, calling for a dismissal of the choice made by a Court docket of Queen’s Bench choose in March. In the course of the ruling, a choose dominated Sheegl accepted a $327,000 bribe from the contractor concerned with the development of the town’s police headquarters.
“The realized choose didn't correctly train his discretion and the choice is clearly mistaken and quantities to an injustice,” the enchantment states.
The town was suing Sheegl and two dozen different defendants over the development of the downtown police headquarters that went tens of thousands and thousands of dollars over funds.
Sheegl was ordered to pay the town $1.1 million, which included authorized prices, severance paid to Sheegl, and punitive prices.
The choose awarded the town authorized prices, the $250,000 paid to Sheegl in severance plus curiosity, in addition to punitive prices of $100,000.
The enchantment alleges the choose “failed to attract applicable inferences from the related info, failed to think about related info and erroneously thought-about irrelevant info in arriving on the resolution,” and claims the choose, “erred in making findings of credibility on the proof adduced by the plaintiff.”
The enchantment additionally alleges the choose relied completely on the affidavits of present metropolis CAO Michael Jack, “who had no information by any means of the info on this litigation.”
Sheegl’s legal professionals are asking the court docket to put aside or reverse the ruling within the case.
In an announcement, the Metropolis of Winnipeg stated it'll oppose the enchantment.
-with recordsdata from CTV’s Jeff Keele and Kayla Rosen
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