Ontario Highway Traffic Act

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Have you paid all of your fines? If so, the only issue should be a licence reinstatement fee. To get started, you can either order a transcript of your licence, or you can call MTO directly. If your fines have not been paid, you cannot get your licence back. MTO's Driver Improvement Office may be contacted at 1-800-303-4993 or via e-mail at ...

Having read the newspaper article... if JPs/Justices in lower courts actually follow the Ontario Court of Appeal's guidance, this should work. (Key word: IF.) Actually it makes it easier to defend a stunt driving charge than regular speeding.

Doherty provided a number of examples where someone speeding might be acquitted of a stunt racing charge ...

You didn't actually speak too soon... If the road is a provincially-controlled highway, the signs must be bilingual, even in Toronto (e.g. hwy 401). On those roads, bilingual defence would apply. :shock:

The reason "bilingual defence" first came up is because the articling student who was representing his boss (R. v. Myers case... defendant was ...

See this link:

Guidelines for Submitting Photographs

Follow those and there's a 90% chance the photos will be admitted. BUT - the time-date stamp has to be within a reasonable amount of time.

What I recommend to ask for in disclosure cases are:

- Full copy of the officer's notes, typed if they are not clearly legible
- Copy of the manual for the speed measuring device used by the officer
- Photographic and/or video evidence, if any exists and the Crown intends to use it at trial

Yes, you should be specific. If your disclosure request ...

Couple of things:

1) You say the sign reads "no left turns 7 to 7" In Toronto they have a bilingual by-law that means all signs like that must be french and english. your discription of the sign doesn't sound bilingual.

Unfortunately, because the case (read: only case) that raised bilingual defence did not go to the Superior Court level, no ...

Provided it is from a one-way street on to a one-way street, you can turn left on a red. Section 144 (19) of the HTA:

Exception – turn

(19) Despite subsection (18 ) and subject to subsection (14), a driver, after stopping his or her vehicle and yielding the right of way to traffic lawfully approaching so closely that to proceed would constitute ...

This charge is rarely used, largely because there are very few people who would cling on to a car if they're on toboggans, skis, rollerblades, etc., and even fewer people who would actually knowingly tow someone using their car. However, there are some incidents that have occurred in Ontario where people have been towed by cars. An example of what ...

brentdub wrote:the Ministry decided to use yellow lines and road signs to signify a suggested actions and white lines and signs to spefify mandatory actions.

That's the best way of describing it.

In response to CoolChick:

1. Most of what you are writing about is from the United States. Probable cause, Bill of Rights, are American concepts. We are in a country called "Canada." We have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and cruzmisl already covered reasonable grounds.
2. Mennonites/Amish do not drive motor vehicles. They use horses, for ...

For ease of reference, since this has to do with the same ticket, please keep it to one thread. It's easier to get the "big picture" if we can see it on one thread. Please continue the discussion on the original thread here:

http://www.ontariohighwaytrafficact.com/topic1986.html

Well.. I am wondering how many times I can defer a court date...

I received a ticket and well I was writing my exams so i defered my first court date… and now I am in Alberta working for a couple of month so I need to defer my second date as well.. is it possible to do it twice.. or do I lose the case by default?

and if i can defer it, how ...

-Officer's notes-typed
-Proof or radar read
-when was the radar tested/ a copy of the test manual


Officer's notes: Will get that. It should have the speed that he recorded you doing, plus the time(s) of the testing of the device. If they are legible, they do NOT have to be typed.

Proof or radar read: See below.

Manual: Ask for a copy of ...

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