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Under the Provincial Offences Act a "Young person": means a person who is or, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, appears to be,
(a) twelve years of age or more, but
(b) under sixteen years of age,
and includes a person sixteen years of age or more charged with having committed an offence while he or she was twelve years of age or more but ...

You might want to look into your cities parking by-laws before you do anything with the tickets or while you are deciding whether to fight them. Most cities restrict parking on the street to a maximum of 12 hours regardless of any signs permitting parking. You may be lucky that the car wasn't towed away in some cases.

"Did you know the Prosecutor is not a lawyer? He/She is a regular person like you or me with just as much training – so don't think your in there fighting some lawyer with a law degree, your not, the prosecutor is a civilian like you and me!"

This may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. All prosecutors for our area are lawyers.

I'm not quite sure why they would use the term "police privilege', when in fact the police have nothing to do with adding or removing anything from a driving abstract. That's all done by the MTO. I'd start with calling them.

You can always ask for leniency but it's entirely up to the JP. They are more likely to give you extra time to pay any fines that are judged against you. IMO the full-time student excuse won't be given much sympathy from the JP. The likely scenario will be that you are given 3 months to pay and at the end of that if you have been part paying the ...

2) A plate portion of a permit can be registered to a different party than the vehicle portion.
3) And the minimum fine is usually $5,000

Your notice of trial is not the official charging document and the incorrect information will not assist you in your defence.
As far as i'm aware, you are under no obligation to correct them.

The JP doesn't have access to your Drivers Licence information except for what's actually on the ticket. If you didn't show up there would be no way for the JP to know the address is different.
Referring to the fact that you believe the officer to be "incompetent" based on a wrong address probably won't get you very far with the JP or the ...

The fact that your address is wrong is not a fatal flaw on the ticket and it would not be quashed. How would the Justice of the Peace know that your address is wrong on the ticket anyway?
Things like leaving the date and time of the ticket off, the officer not signing the ticket, leaving off the set fine could be flaws.

I'd actually know what you were arrested for and if they actually laid any charges?

As for the placement of the stop sign, that's not actually where you are supposed to stop. Depending on the road design, you either stop at the marked stop line or, if none, then immediately before entering the nearest crosswalk or, if none, then immediately before entering the intersection.
For disclosure you'll want to attend the local court ...

I'll give you my standard answer: "It depends"
1) Do you get caught?
2) Is it actually raining out?
2) Every Officer is an individual and can use their own discretion.

Look at it like rolling dice, sometimes you roll boxcars and sometimes snake eyes.

How you react during the vehicle stop may influence the outcome as well.

Personally i'd ...

Take a look at Simon's blog post on the demerit point system.
http://simonborys.wordpress.com/2011/06 ... n-ontario/

The correct response on a multi-lane highway is to pull over to the nearest edge of the roadway.

159. (1) The driver of a vehicle, upon the approach of a police department vehicle with its bell or siren sounding or with its lamp producing intermittent flashes of red light or red and blue light, or upon the approach of an ambulance, fire department ...

I agree with Simon. Our agency gives copies the testing procedure for the radar and if you want to see a manual you may with one of our court officers present.

Section 175 is posted for Bluebird

Duty of drivers when school bus stopped
(11) Every driver or street car operator, when meeting on a highway, other than a highway with a median strip, a stopped school bus that has its overhead red signal-lights flashing, shall stop before reaching the bus and shall not proceed until the bus moves or the overhead ...

That's funny. I don't see any mention of a "laser" being used or anything on the disclosure about "calibration" I see a Decatur Electronics Genesis II being used.

Just some food for thought. Industry Canada issues licences for mobile and base station police radio, MDT's and .....mobile and stationary police radar units. Would the fact that they are issuing the licences not mean that Industry Canada is following a standard?
Most radar units i've dealt with are sent back to the distributor and calibrated on an ...

You're actually lucky you got stopped when you did and all you got was a suspension notice. After 7 days of a suspension being valid you are "deemed served" your notice by the Ministry to the last address they have on file for you. Any time after that 7 days and you would have been charged with driving under suspension and still had to pay the ...

WTF?! Whatever happened to having to pay it before you re-new your license.

They still use that system to collect unpaid parking tickets and HWY 407 tolls when you renew the vehicle plate every one or two years. Most fines issued under the HTA are to the driver so the suspension system is needed. It helps keep habitual offenders off the road and ...

And please..... for Non commercial motor vehicles, please put it on the rear plate and in the top RIGHT corner. Commercial- front plate and top right.... Just a pet peeve. I really hate people who like to decorate their plates with val tags.

Shirt colour and number of passengers? Very thin. They also have to real bearing on the original offence.

I'm beginning to think that some courts may take a dim view of not providing either a phone number or an e-mail address. Most of the Justices of the Peace are every in touch with technology and would recognize when someone is attempting to delay the receipt of disclosure.

Considering that the minimum fine for just driving without insurance is $5,000, I would strongly recommend legal council. (Lawyer or paralegal)

1. Request disclosure for both offences
2. Chances are slim to nil in beating the validation fine. Doesn't matter who the owner is. It's the drivers responsibility to make sure that the plates are valid. You can be charged any time after they expire. Any warnings are a bonus.
3. There is an exemption under the HTA for speeding:

128(13) The speed ...

The objective of the police officer is to enforce the laws. Either by way of warning someone or giving them a ticket. You got somewhere in between when he reduced the fine at roadside. If you plead not guilty, the prosecutor will probably amend the speed on the ticket up to the original 25 over and go from there. If convicted you will get the fine ...

Your best bet would be letting your lawyer deal with all of these charges because they result from the same incident
Whether you stole the plates or not isn't material at all. The charge you indicated is one that alleges that you were in possession of property that had been stolen (possibly by a third party) Vehicles in Ontario are never sold with ...

The prosecutor doesn't set the court date. The court does. The prosecutor will be requesting that the court date be changed because the officer is not available for trial that day. You (or your agent) can agree with the change or explain to the Justice that you are ready to proceed with the trial that day. As for the "rubber stamp" it's totally ...

Having some sort of legal representation would be a very good idea.
Recently I was in court and a G2 driver with a clean record was given a $2000 fine and a licence suspension of one year for driving 153km/h in a 60 km/h zone. (1 am in the morning)This was an agreed upon sentence between the prosecutor and defence. Of interest though is that the ...

That ticket would not be considered incomplete. I believe those boxes are generally for administrative purposes at the local level.