Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Yep, actually Stanton is correct - as usual. "Vehicle owner.". My bad. Either way, any automobile driven on public roads needs insurance, no matter who owns it.

Benjamin Button, I understand what you wrote. It is just wrong. The government can, and will, seize unregistered vehicles as well as those that are registered. Same thing with firearms, etc.

The word register does not mean to give ownership to the Crown, either. Not in Canada, anyway.

Failing to register your vehicle won't stop the government ...

I won't lock the thread just so that I can answer this:

The reason they can impound a car is because the car becomes the property of the Ministry the minute you register it. Anything that is registered belongs to the Crown I believe.

That's not correct. Actually, it's the exact opposite: You're telling the government that YOU own the car. The ...

It's actually the Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act (CAIA).

Whoever is the registered owner is required to have the insurance. If you have a leased vehicle, that means you have to get the insurance, if that's what you're asking.

Not really. The suspension and the expiry of the licence both would (in a legal sense) bar the owner from driving, but one doesn't cancel the other. For example, there are two different offences: Drive Suspended and Drive With No Licence. Drive Suspended is more serious - either you're under a court-ordered or administrative suspension (e.g. unpaid ...

Don't they have to show a by-law proving that the speed limit is 40km/h to convict you?

Nope. The 40 km/h sign is "prima facie" evidence of the existence of the by-law. This used to be a tactic that had some success (usually for "disobey sign" tickets) but it hasn't really worked very well recently, at least as far as I know.

If you can show ...

I'm going to assume by "in an emergency" you meant something life-threatening, yes?

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This is one of the reasons why the "slow down and move over" law was implemented in Ontario. The officer was stationary, IN his vehicle with a transport truck stopped in front of him, and he still got rammed.

Good news is, it looks like he'll be okay.

First thing to do is get the fines paid off. Contact MTO (Driver Improvement Office) as that is a good place to start, or the court house. They should be able to start steering you in the right direction. He'll have to pay the fines, plus a licence reinstatement fee of $150. He may have to apply for a new licence due to the fact that its validity ...

Driving without a licence can get you arrested... although... my understanding is that the usual penalty is 1000 Rand or so. (About $150.)

My understanding of the structures with the purplish lights is that they are used for traffic surveillance as opposed to speed enforcement... but I could be wrong. The Johannesburg Metro Police Department sets ...

If I'm to understand this correctly... did you get the original ticket in July of 2010?

If so, the time from July of 2010 to February of 2011, and from November 2011 until April 24, 2012, all count as "delay." That seems like a 12-month total delay that is attributed to the system and the Prosecutor's office. You might want to think about filing ...

Agree with Stanton. A left turn into a parking lot is not a U-turn. If you turn around in the parking lot and turn right on to the roadway, it's still not a U-turn. The U-turn has to occur on the highway (public road)... which, you didn't do, from the sounds of it. You made a left turn on the highway but that's it.

If you submit a disclosure request at the Prosecutor's office at the courthouse, you're supposed to submit two copies. They take one, and stamp the other as "received" and hand it back to you. If they hand the disclosure to you, well, then you have it and that's that.

If you did not get disclosure, then, in your case, I'd argue that it is ...

I'm going to have to side with mnstrcck.

CanLII does provide many cases where people are found not guilty because they had a clear, articulate recollection of the facts. Most JPs are aware that court cases are not a "credibility contest," and that the Supreme Court has said that if a defendant's testimony is believable, they should be believed ...

Thanks admin! South Africa was incredibly beautiful... I also took a lot of other videos that I put up on YouTube.

Makes you love the HTA after driving there doesnt it!? I have also driven in some other countries and it kinda makes you think...


I agree... definitely a lot of places where the driving is a lot worse than here... although, to be ...