06-22-2018, 02:41 PM
(06-22-2018, 12:26 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(06-22-2018, 11:54 AM)Coke6pk Wrote: I personally know of a local officer who was at a police funeral in Toronto area that observed someone blow a traffic light in front of them, did the stop, and wrote the ticket on him. And since the presiding justice of the peace is Provincially appointed they could hear the case here. If the person wanted a court date, it would be held at the courthouse here in town as that's where the PON (Provincial Offences Notice) was issued from.
Coke
That last bit is unfortunate. The hearing should be local to the location of the offence. If the officer can be in Toronto to write the ticket they can be in Toronto again to be at the hearing. In this particular case I doubt if any injustice was done but as a general rule people should not be forced to travel to distant locations by the justice system.
I don't know. My only speeding ticket was in Quebec doing exactly 20 over the construction limit (construction was pylons, not one person or piece of equipment), while being passed by cars with Quebec plates. If I wanted to contest the ticket, I would have had to go almost to New Brunswick.