Ontario Highway Traffic Act

I get the same impression. It seems the intent is to keep people from entering that little area. A Do Not Enter sign and a No Proceeding Straight Through an Intersection are NOT the same thing. This should be a slam dunk.

It would be interesting to know when the officer corrected the time on the Certificate of Offence and in his notes. Officers typically testify in Court that they made their notes "shortly after" issuing the ticket (that tends to mean as soon as the officer returns to the car or to the patrol post). If he messed up the time on the ticket and in his ...

Quota? The month and year were almost over.

OTD Legal wrote:If all three offences go to conviction, I could only imagine that obtaining insurance coverage would be prohibitively expensive if an insurer could even be found to issue a policy.

Probably closer to impossible than prohibitively expensive. Then again, this person obviously doesn't seem to care.

I watched the video a bunch of times. Your brake lights were on for about five seconds. I find it really hard to tell whether you came to a complete stop or were still rolling. The officer was sufficiently far back that it's difficult to gauge where you were relative to the intersection. That's my opinion; the JP could see it the other way ...

I watched the video a bunch of times. Your brake lights were on for about five seconds. I find it really hard to tell whether you came to a complete stop or were still rolling. The officer was sufficiently far back that it's difficult to gauge where you were relative to the intersection. That's my opinion; the JP could see it the other way.

That's what I thought, unfortunately.

I'll just wait for my trial date so I can request disclosure. I still think we were in Brampton, not Vaughan, and that the Brampton Court, not Newmarket, should have jurisdiction. But it will take several months before I know that, based on the pace at which Newmarket works.

I was reading another topic last night, where the issue of location shown on the ticket was briefly raised as a potential fatal error. That made me wonder whether the information the officer showed on my tickets is sufficient. All he indicated was "Highway 407." I've attached the two tickets. Is what he indicated sufficient?

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Switching lanes four times in a minute is considerably different from switching lanes four times over the course of the several minutes he was following you. That does sound more like weaving. As ynotp suggested, though, post the video.

Some stories do have happy endings.

My friend received a notice in the mail saying that, because of an error on the ticket, the charge is being withdrawn. Someone was in a good mood!

Request a trial right away. The officer has not alleged you were speeding; that's definitely a good thing. If your dashcam video shows you were changing lanes occasionally to provide a clear lane in which you could drive at the speed limit, that is also a good thing. IMO, Careless should only apply if you were weaving into and out of lanes, trying ...

Sadly, this situation adds fuel to the fodder for those who believe Ontario JPs do not receive sufficient legal training for their jobs. While I am not one of those people (I do believe JPs are sufficiently trained for what they do), would it not make sense that a JP at least know what a subpoena duces tecum for O'Connor production is? Maybe the JP ...

It could the start and end of the officers shift, testing times, or both. It's also not uncommon for an officer to write testing procedures on a separate page so they're not writing the same thing over and over again.

You can always ask for clarification, but that's something you should be doing before your court date. Most likely you'll show up ...

My guess is the officer knows there are a lot of speeders here and made sure to "preload" his/her notes with all the details he/she would need if a matter were ever to come to trial. I haven't spent as much time in court as some of the people here, but I've NEVER seen such detail.

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