Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Commercial plates expire at end of the month. Personal plates expire on the birthday of the owner. No section # may be good enough to get the ticket quashed. You always have to think of errors in terms of how they have prejudiced your ability to make full answer and defence. Courts are not sympathetic to technical errors that have no prejudice ...

The officer doesn't have to check your information before he issues you a ticket.

"First attendance" usually refers to the court date on the summons, which would make it obligatory. As has been said, any date on a summons or any official court date (when court is sitting and your name is on the docket) is mandatory. Nothing in the HTA or POA says meetings with prosecutors are.

I don't see how the discrepancies you have mentioned, even if you can get the court to completely accept your version of the events and reject the officer's, will have any bearing on the ticket being dismissed.

You don't have to appear in person if you have a representative there for you.

Just so you don't have any false expectations, the officer's rudeness, even if you complaint is substantiated and he's disciplined for it, will not have any effect on your ticket.

The fact that it was raining isn't going to help you. The typical response from prosecutors when people say they crashed because of the weather is that you should have been going slower if the weather was bad. Prosecutors tend to view the collision in bad weather as evidence of the fact that you weren't driving "with due care and attention" (to the ...

Have you filed for a re-opening or an appeal? If you filed for a re-opening then the crown once again has the opportunity to request an amendment to the certificate to correct the error. If you are appealing then it's essentially just a review of the JP's failure to quash the ticket. In the latter scenario it's irrelevant why you didn't show up ...

Every jurisdiction has a different procedure for obtaining disclosure, usually it consists of writing to the crown. Call the courthouse and ask.

The crown is the prosecutor

You have 30 days to reopen a matter, but after that you can still appeal a conviction. You still need a valid reason to appeal or your request will be denied and I agree with Stanton that I don't see the argument in what you're saying.

I would qualify Stanton's statements about police being able to as preliminary questions to "figure out what happened" in the absence of grounds by pointing to White (1998) SCC and several subsequent cases which say that if the statement you give to the police is compelled (which a statement in relation to a collision may be under the Highway ...

The officer has no discretion to issue you a reduced fine. The fine for failing to stop for a stop sign is set by the Chief Justice of Ontario at $110.

Reduced Suspension with Interlock program is specifically for people who are charged criminally and plead within a certain time frame. You may still have to get an ignition interlock here in Ontario, but I don't think it will be through this program.

You can contact the prosecutor and see if they will consent to the adjournment request. If they are going to you usually just need to fax something to them and they will present it to the judge on the court date.