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- Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:56 pm
- Forum: Driver failing to wear a seat belt
- Topic: Traffic ticket analysis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2791
Re: Traffic ticket analysis
Thank you kindly for your response! I really appreciate it and I will let him know. All the best. Unfortunately, your boyfriend's stuck in a legal uncertainty. You see, several courts have held that citing the wrong section number with a conflicting offence description IS a fatal flaw. See the case of R.v.Stuparayk and Firmino . However, the Ontario Court of Appeal has also permitted leave to appeal in another case because a different case held otherwise. See R.v. Farah . In other words, the law is unclear right now whether citing the wrong section number along with a conflicting offence descr...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:46 pm
- Forum: Driver failing to wear a seat belt
- Topic: Traffic ticket analysis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2791
Traffic ticket analysis
Hey guys, I was with my boyfriend yesterday and he was pulling into a plaza parking lot (private property). We took our seat belts off once we pulled in (not parked) and there was a cop about to make a right onto the road, still in the plaza though. We drove to a parking spot and he followed us. A little bit of a debate broke out before the ticket was issued and the officer was surprised that my boyfriend knew so much about the laws. He issued the ticket nonetheless even though there was no proof what so ever on his end and we were on private property. The issue is, on the ticket he did not ti...