Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Also, a reduction to 15 km (which carries 0 points) is less likely if your ticket was already reduced at the roadside.

I do have to say though that the process of suspended for a 3 days EVEN AFTER you have paid the fines AND having to pay $150 to get the license re-instated is a complete joke and cash-grab.

Just to clarify this, you're not actually suspended during this time. Once you pay off your fines with the court, you are no longer suspended. At that time ...

It is the prosecutor's "job" to hear you say guilty , either to the original charge or a reduced or amended charge.

I disagree with that. Although a prosecutor's job description includes accepting please, prosecuting cases, and obtaining convictions they are quasi-ministers of justice, and as such their main goal is to seek justice . The doesn't ...

Are you asking whether it would be better to drive your wife's car unlicenced rather than your own car?

Prosecutors will often withdraw the ticket if the witnesses don't show, but they can also ask for an adjournment and attempt to force the witnesses to court no a subsequent date. They can go so far as to ask the judge to issue a warrant for the witnesses.

Radar Identified wrote:You may want to consider hiring a paralegal or a traffic lawyer for this particular case.

Agreed. Especially if there was a statement taken from a minor (I wasn't clear on that from your post) because there can be issues with the reliability and accuracy of such statements.

Black ice is usually not much help to people charged with careless driving because the prosecutor's position is usually, "If there was black ice on the road you should have been driving slower and more carefully; then there wouldn't have been a collision." But like everything, it depends on the totality of the circumstances.

With respect to ...

If you actually had a valid licence, but couldn't produce the card, the proper charge is fail to surrender licence under s. 33(1). $85 fine ($100 total payable). If you were charged under the wrong section it will likely be withdrawn by the prosecutor if you can prove that you had a valid licence at the time you were stopped or you should be able ...

Arches wrote:Will it be any help for my case?

It certainly won't hurt! And you need all the help you can get

The fines you're looking at are likely:

1) Driving motor vehicle with only 1 license plate (rear) - $85
2) Fail to surrender permit for motor vehicle (I DO have it however, it was at home... but I do have it, and can prove it is actually my vehicle) - $85
3) The use of a defaced or altered number plate (the sticker was fake... however I found the ...

nerd wrote:you may want to spend the money for a traffic defense lawyer to try negotiating no points if it's your first offense

You can't negotiate the points.

No one is disputing what it says on the back of the ticket but, as I said, a ticket is not put into court to ask for a s. 9.1 conviction right after the 15th day.

If you should be in court but do not show, it will only make the judge angry and end up with a charge for failure to appear.

Actually you don't get charged for fail to appear in POA court. They just ask for a conviction in abstentia under s. 9.1 if it's a Part 1 ticket or have an ex-parte trail if it's a Part 3 summons.

They probably dismissed ...

Common reasons why charges are withdrawn in situations like this are: (1) officer made no notes or insufficient notes to support the a conviction, and (2) wrong charge (the charge isn't really supported on the facts as the officer recorded them) and they don't want to bother issuing a corrective summons and bringing everybody back to do it over ...

If the crown is asking for an adjournment you could argue that you are present and ready to proceed (if you actually are) and try to show that the crown's reasons for requesting an adjournment are not important enough and that you would be prejudiced somehow by having this drag out longer. If successful in avoiding the adjournment the crown would ...