Quick Answer — Toronto
Point Duty defends criminal harassment charges under Criminal Code s.264 — stalking, repeated following, watching, or unwanted contact that makes someone fear for their safety. Summary conviction carries up to two years less a day, a criminal record, and often no-contact and weapons prohibitions. A licensed paralegal can act where the Crown proceeds summarily.
Criminal harassment at Toronto's Armoury Street courthouse usually sits between people who already know each other — most often former partners, where one is having a hard time letting the other go, and often enough neighbours, though sometimes complete strangers — and where it grows out of an intimate partner relationship the domestic designation is attached, which puts the file in the same Toronto stream as a domestic assault. Repeated contact after someone has said stop goes to the conduct, but it does not finish the offence: the Crown still has to prove the complainant feared for their safety and that the fear was reasonable in the circumstances. The disclosure can run long where a complainant hands investigators text and message threads that have to be transcribed, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads it the way it reads a theft file — what is the Crown offering, what would be better than that, and can the Crown actually prove its case. A s.810 peace bond is often the landing spot, with input from the complainant, and the charge is sometimes withdrawn without one where the accused has done positive work up front.
Repeated communication, following, or threatening conduct that causes another person to fear for their safety. Hybrid offence; on summary election within paralegal scope.
Section 264 of the Criminal Code prohibits engaging in conduct toward another person — including repeatedly following, communicating with, watching, or threatening — that causes that person to reasonably fear for their safety or the safety of someone known to them.
Hybrid. On summary: up to 2 years less a day. On indictment: up to 10 years. Criminal record on conviction. Often accompanied by no-contact and weapons prohibitions.
Disclosure review of the pattern of conduct alleged, witness statements, and communication records. Peace bond resolution is common where the evidence supports a low-risk outcome.
Toronto runs three Provincial Offences courts, not one — Toronto South on Front Street East, Toronto East on Markham Road, and Toronto West on Eglinton Avenue West. Which one hears your ticket is set by where it was issued. Summary criminal charges go to the Toronto Courthouse at 10 Armoury Street. We appear at all four.
10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2
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All Toronto criminal matters. Consolidated the former Old City Hall, College Park, 1000 Finch West, 2201 Finch West, 1911 Eglinton East and 311 Jarvis courthouses in March 2023.
Local practice notes reviewed 2026-09-01
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