Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Last night, Toronto Police stopped two cars that were racing down Martin Grove Road in Etobicoke. The speed limit there is 50. They were going 200 km/h!

Toronto Star article here

:shock: :shock: :shock:

On a different, but also shocking note, Thursday night a York Regional Police officer was seriously injured after she was involved in a ...

he has to pass the ticket to you directly and you have to accept it for it to be valid.....


While it is true that the ticket must be "served personally" to the defendant (section 3(3) of the Provincial Offences Act), whether you accept it or not has no bearing on its validity. "I don't accept it" doesn't render it invalid. The officer only has ...

1. File the stay application 20 days in advance. See if it works.
2. Check out these cases on CanLII:

R. v. Erredia
R. v. Morgan
R. v. Woldenga

Take notes of those cases. Erredia basically said that a minor error is not careless driving, and just because the circumstances do not specifically "fit" into another HTA offence also does not mean ...

They've got up to 7 days to file the charges. You don't have to stay home waiting, just go about your business normally. If the police are going to charge you, they'll find a way to get the ticket to you. In the mean time, you might want to re-visit the scene of the incident and take some of your own notes. The officer might've forgotten or decided ...

Mmm.... donuts....

Still a major route, moving slow, with unstrapped cargo......

Toronto Police would've also slapped on an unnecessary slow driving ticket. In that case, could come up with a defence to one or the other, but not both at the same time, given the scenario. :shock:

Eddie57, did the officer inspect the load and check to see if ...

You guys are sure the bilingual defence is foolproof?

Foolproof, no. Usable defence, yes, although there is no 100% guarantee that it will work. One case allowed it (R. v. Myers), and it "opened the door," so to speak, but no higher courts have said either "yes" or "no" as to whether or not it can or cannot be used. I've seen it used ...

That being the case:

Welcome aboard, Marquisse!

You have a right to a speedy and fair trial, but disclosure is a bit of a different animal. In short, yes, if they don't give you proper disclosure, the proceedings can be stopped. The Crown must get the disclosure package ready for you in a reasonable amount of time before the trial, if you've requested one. If they don't, you can file a motion to ...

More or less, but saying you don't understand something isn't a loophole. The real issue here was lack of disclosure. Proper disclosure is needed so that a defendant can "make a full answer and defence," most of which comes from common-law history and the R. v. Stinchcombe case.

The most important statement in that case is:

What are the legal ...

As Reflections was saying, plea-bargaining can still result in an insurance increase, depending on your provider. Some of them will forgive a ticket for 15-over, others won't - it all depends. Plea-bargaining can save you the stress of a lot of time in court, plus it gets the fine down. 15-over also keeps you away from demerit points. You can call ...

The ticket information will be sent back to Manitoba, so they'll find out about it, and then when you apply for an Ontario license the infraction will be transferred to your record here. Whether or not your rates go up depends on your insurance provider. (Are you still using insurance from Manitoba?)

Basically any speeding ticket can be used to ...

Reflections wrote:Appeals are more indepth than the first trial. I would advise a paralegal....

Agreed.

This is what I'm thinking on this. I go to trial and as a defense tell the justice that I did not commit an offense because the subsection 154(1)(b) cited specifically allows what I did, which was to prepare for a left turn, abort it, and merge again with traffic. When the The officer/prosecutor alleges that I used the middle lane to overtake ...

Lawman wrote:Therefore, if you received an offence notice (not a summons) and you're not within prescribed part of Ontario COMPLETELY IGNORE THE TICKET.

Have you successfully used this defence in court (or any of your other theories for that matter)?

There's a lot more to this story than I had initially believed. I think that an impartial investigation by an oversight body is warranted, or at the very least, the London Police Professional Standards Bureau. Again, best of luck with everything.