ericgc wrote:1. Officer didn't sign his signature in ink on the Summon, because the whole thing was printed

Tickets are moving towards the electronic route. A lot of them these days aren't hand written. What you've described is the new norm. They don't sign these by hand anymore.

ericgc wrote:2. Officer mispelled my name

There should be signature in electronic type. Unless there is something new.

Btw, arent they suppose to give you all disclosure in one try? Let's say i asked for disclosure in court. The prosecutor is supposed to provide "all " disclosure without missing one piece.

I have seen some judges behave badly, and just one sided the prosecutor. Even with the same reasons given in different court.

Thanks for link.

Good to know the limit when no sign. However for many people or noob driver, they have no clue there is a default limit. I bet they wlill be charged without knowing it. Even if you ignore the whole "ignorance is not a defense" argument, default speed limit is one of the first things you learn about driving before even getting behind a wheel. It's covered in the Drivers Handbook, it's a question on the G1 test (depending which version you get), and any legit driving school will beat the default limits into your head. I know, but pretty sure tons of people dont remember that anymore. ...

Im not going to trial. Im just trying to learn something using that scenario. I went to court, but dont see any trial much. Maybe went there the wrong time. It would be hard to know which paralegal is good as well.

Yes definitely get your disclosure of the officers notes and then decide what to do. Section 175(11) reads: 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 red signal-lights have stopped flashing. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 175 (11). So a couple of the elements they need to prove are: (1) You were the driver of a vehicle. (2) You wer...

BTW, noone has answered the original question:" Do police get pay when they are going to the court?" It seems they do get paid and happy to sit there.

jsherk wrote:What I have seen with OPP is that they schedule trial date based on officers shift, so 99% of the time the officer will be there. Very very rare for OPP officer not to show up for trial.

I guess you been to lots of trial with OPP eh.

OPS Copper wrote:Our court is scheduled to coincide with our day shifts. I suspect this is becoming the norm.

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So you are saying court date is scheduled without considering your shift? I doubt that is changed.

Good to know the limit when no sign. However for many people or noob driver, they have no clue there is a default limit. I bet they wlill be charged without knowing it.

Also when you go to rural area, there are many "highway" or road that are just there to connect few town. It isnt easy to know if that's Highway or just normal road.

jsherk wrote:Yes our great un-justice system again favors police/prosecutor in the matter of venue.

I have driven 5 hours one-way to go to court (and win).

Mine is like 4 hours of driving one way. And won the case.
I found out the relationship between the police and prosecutor and everyone that are there local are very good. If we are really going for a full blown case, those who are outside have very great disadvantage to begin with. It might be a good reason to change court location eh.. That will have different prosecutor?! And clerk.

Yup, in this ticket police said there is recording, but first disclosure didnt provide it. Of course if argue about it, judge will believe police over others. Will try to send a second disclosure, however dont expect them to send it since first one didnt. First request didnt specificly ask for audio recording, they might simply assume i didnt request it eh? Or just hope i dont request it.

How is the result?

Let's say the court for your offence is more than 200km one way away from your home.
Can you ask for the location change to different court near yourself?