# Point Duty Traffic Court Defence & Legal Services > Licensed paralegal Kerlan McLean defends Ontario traffic and criminal charges. Licensed by the Law Society of Ontario in 2008 — one of the first paralegals licensed in Ontario — with 13 years of prior policing experience and 24 years in defence practice. Every file is handled personally from the first call to the final appearance. This is the extended machine-readable index for pointdutytraffic.com. It expands on /llms.txt with a one-paragraph summary of every major page so answer engines can cite accurate, source-grounded information. Site-wide facts: phone 1-866-647-6468; email info@pointdutytraffic.com; jurisdiction all of Ontario; free, confidential consultation with no obligation. Paralegal scope covers summary conviction criminal offences, Highway Traffic Act and Provincial Offences Act matters, Small Claims Court (up to $50,000), and Landlord and Tenant Board hearings; indictable and out-of-scope matters are referred to a trusted network of Ontario lawyers. ## Traffic & Provincial Offences - [Traffic Offence Hub](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences): Overview of all Highway Traffic Act and Provincial Offences Act defence. Explains why fighting a ticket beats paying it (paying is a guilty plea that adds demerit points and raises insurance for three to five years) and what a paralegal does on a traffic file. - [Speeding](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/speeding): Speeding under HTA s.128 ranges from a few km/h over the limit to the 50 km/h stunt-driving threshold, carrying set fines of $40 to over $1,000 and 0–6 demerit points. Paying the ticket is a guilty plea that typically raises insurance 5–25% per conviction for three years; a paralegal can challenge the radar/lidar evidence and negotiate a reduction in speed or points. - [Stunt Driving](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/stunt-driving): Stunt driving under HTA s.172 (40+ km/h over in zones of 80 km/h or less, 50+ km/h over above 80 km/h, plus racing) triggers an automatic roadside 30-day licence suspension and 14-day vehicle impound before any court date. A conviction carries fines of $2,000–$10,000, up to six months imprisonment, a licence suspension up to two years on a first offence, 6 demerit points, and severe insurance consequences. - [Careless Driving](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/careless-driving): Careless driving under HTA s.130 is a marked departure from the standard of a reasonable driver, often laid after a collision, carrying a $400–$2,000 fine, up to 6 demerit points, possible imprisonment, and a suspension of up to two years. Through disclosure review and pre-trial discussions it is frequently reduced to a lesser HTA offence with fewer points and less insurance impact. - [Drive Suspended](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/drive-suspended): Driving while suspended under HTA s.53 carries a minimum $1,000 fine (up to $5,000), a possible vehicle impound, a further suspension, and up to six months imprisonment. Knowledge of the suspension is presumed but rebuttable, and lack of effective notice is often the strongest defence. - [Novice Driver Charges (G1/G2)](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/novice-driver): Graduated licensing drivers face lower demerit thresholds and additional rules (zero BAC, passenger and supervision limits), with a single 6-point conviction able to trigger a 30-day suspension and 9+ points leading to cancellation. Any traffic charge is more serious for a novice, so contesting it early — often by seeking a reduction to a non-GDL offence — is essential to protect the licence. - [Fail to Remain](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/fail-to-remain): Fail to remain under HTA s.200 (leaving a collision without stopping, assisting, or providing information) carries a $400–$2,000 fine, up to six months imprisonment, 7 demerit points, and a suspension up to two years. Where injury or death is involved it can escalate to a Criminal Code charge; knowledge of the collision and whether a duty to remain was triggered are the key issues. - [Disobey Stop Sign](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/disobey-stop-sign): A stop sign ticket under HTA s.136 carries a set fine of roughly $160 with surcharge and costs, 3 demerit points, and a typical 5–15% insurance increase for three years. Many charges turn on disputed observation — whether the vehicle stopped and the officer's vantage point — making them among the more defensible minor traffic matters. - [No Insurance](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/no-insurance): Driving without insurance under the Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act s.2(1) carries a minimum $5,000 fine on a first offence (up to $25,000) plus a 25% surcharge, with possible suspension and impoundment, and $10,000–$50,000 for subsequent offences. The Crown will often reduce or withdraw the charge where proof of coverage at the time can be located, even after the fact. - [Distracted Driving](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/distracted-driving): Distracted driving under HTA s.78.1 (holding or using a hand-held device, or viewing an unrelated screen) carries escalating penalties from $615/3 points/3-day suspension on a first conviction to $3,000/6 points/30-day suspension on a third. Because the charge depends on officer observation, the officer's notes are examined first, and first-time charges can often be reduced at Early Resolution. ## Criminal Summary Offences - [Can a Paralegal Defend a Criminal Charge in Ontario?](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/can-a-paralegal-defend-a-criminal-charge): Yes, where the Crown proceeds by summary conviction. Criminal Code s.802.1 bars a non-lawyer agent from appearing where the defendant is liable on summary conviction to more than six months' imprisonment, but permits it where the agent is authorized under a program approved by the province. Before 19 September 2019 the general summary maximum under s.787(1) was six months, so paralegals fell just inside the line; Bill C-75 raised that maximum to two years less a day on 19 September 2019 without amending s.802.1, which would have removed paralegals from nearly all summary criminal work. Ontario Order in Council 1115/2019, made 15 August 2019 and in force the same day as C-75, designates the Law Society of Ontario's regulation of licensees an approved program under s.802.1, preserving paralegal scope. The Law Society's criterion is historical — regulated agents may appear on offences that, as of 18 September 2019, carried a maximum of six months on summary conviction — and its published list runs to 154 entries. Outside scope: indictable-only offences (robbery, aggravated assault, break and enter into a dwelling-house), hybrid charges where the Crown elects indictment, summary offences absent from the list including impaired driving under s.320.14 and sexual assault under s.271, and summary conviction appeals, which are heard in the Superior Court of Justice where a paralegal cannot appear. - [Criminal Offence Hub](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences): Overview of summary conviction criminal defence within paralegal scope. Explains that a paralegal licensed by the Law Society of Ontario can represent on summary matters (assault, theft, mischief, harassment, uttering threats) while indictable charges require a barrister, and that disclosure is reviewed line by line before any plea conversation. - [Assault](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/assault): Assault under Criminal Code s.265/s.266 is the intentional application of force without consent and requires no injury — even an unwanted shove can meet the threshold. Summary conviction carries up to two years less a day and/or a $5,000 fine plus a criminal record, but for first-time accused a peace bond, diversion, or discharge that leaves no record is frequently available. - [Theft Under $5,000](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/theft-under): Theft under $5,000 (s.334(b)) covers shoplifting, employee theft, and similar low-value theft and is one of the most common charges resolved without a criminal record for first-time accused. Diversion programs such as Direct Accountability, along with absolute and conditional discharges, are routinely available where the facts support them. - [Mischief](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/mischief): Mischief under s.430 covers wilfully damaging property, rendering it useless, or interfering with its lawful use (graffiti, vandalism, obstruction), with summary mischief under $5,000 carrying up to two years less a day. The value of the damage and the circumstances drive the realistic resolution, which often avoids a record through a peace bond, restitution, or diversion. - [Cause Disturbance](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/cause-disturbance): Causing a disturbance under s.175 covers fighting, screaming, swearing, or impeding people in or near a public place in a way that produces an externally manifested disturbance, carrying up to two years less a day and/or a $5,000 fine. Because it depends heavily on officer observation, disclosure review is the starting point and peace bonds, diversion, or withdrawal commonly resolve it. - [Dangerous Driving](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/dangerous-driving): Dangerous driving under Criminal Code s.320.13 is a criminal charge — not an HTA charge — requiring a marked departure from the conduct of a reasonable driver and creating a criminal record on conviction. The Law Society's permitted list carries s.320.13(1), the simpliciter offence only, so on a summary election that charge is within paralegal scope (up to two years less a day, a mandatory minimum fine, and possible driving prohibition). Indictable matters are referred to a barrister, as are dangerous operation causing bodily harm (s.320.13(2)) and causing death (s.320.13(3)), which are not on the permitted list however the Crown elects. - [Prohibited Driving](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/prohibited-driving): Operating while prohibited under s.320.18 is a Criminal Code offence separate from a provincial drive-suspended charge, arising from a court-ordered prohibition (typically from a prior impaired or dangerous driving conviction). Knowledge of the prohibition is the key issue; on summary election the matter is within paralegal scope. - [Criminal Harassment](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/criminal-harassment): Criminal harassment under s.264 — sometimes called stalking — covers repeatedly following, watching, communicating with, or threatening someone in a way that causes them to reasonably fear for their safety. Whether the conduct was repeated and the fear objectively reasonable are the central elements; on summary election it is within paralegal scope and often resolves by peace bond. - [Uttering Threats](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/uttering-threats): Uttering threats under s.264.1 covers knowingly conveying a threat to cause death or bodily harm, to burn, destroy or damage property, or to kill, poison or injure an animal — whether spoken, written, or sent online — and need not be one the speaker intends to carry out. Whether the words were objectively threatening in context and knowingly communicated drives the defence. Only the property and animal branch is within paralegal scope: the Law Society's permitted list carries s.264.1(3), the penalty provision for s.264.1(1)(b) and (c), on summary election. A threat of death or bodily harm is punishable under s.264.1(2), which is not on the permitted list, and is referred to a lawyer. - [Fail to Stop After Accident](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/fail-to-stop-accident): Fail to stop after an accident under s.320.16 is the criminal counterpart to the HTA's fail to remain and escalates sharply where bodily harm or death is involved (up to ten years on indictment, with mandatory driving prohibitions). Whether a legal duty to stop arose and whether the accused had knowledge of the accident are the foundational issues. The Law Society's permitted list carries s.320.16(1) only, so a summary election on that subsection falls within paralegal scope; failure to stop causing bodily harm (s.320.16(2)) is hybrid but absent from the list, and causing death (s.320.16(3)) is indictable only, so both are referred to a barrister. ## Locations Point Duty appears across the Greater Toronto Area and accepts retainers Ontario-wide. Each city page lists the local criminal court (Ontario Court of Justice) and the traffic/Provincial Offences Act (POA) court, and covers both the criminal-summary and traffic tracks for that jurisdiction. - [Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/mississauga): Criminal — Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. Criminal matters from Mississauga and Brampton. Caledon criminal charges go to the Orangeville Courthouse. Traffic/POA — Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. Mississauga charges from Peel Regional Police, OPP Port Credit and the QEW corridor. Covers QEW/403/401 traffic enforcement and criminal summary matters heard at the Davis Courthouse in Brampton. - [Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/brampton): Criminal — A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. Criminal matters from Brampton and Mississauga. Caledon criminal charges go to the Orangeville Courthouse. Traffic/POA — Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. Brampton provincial offences from Peel Regional Police, OPP and Brampton bylaw enforcement. Covers Highway 410/407/50 traffic and criminal summary matters from Brampton and Mississauga in one of Ontario's busiest court complexes. - [Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/toronto): Criminal — Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. 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. Traffic/POA — three Provincial Offences courts, assigned by where the charge was laid: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2 (Downtown and central Toronto; offence numbers beginning 4860); Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4 (Scarborough and the east end; offence numbers beginning 4863); and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1 (Etobicoke, York and North York; offence numbers beginning 4862). Covers speeding, stunt driving, careless driving and all HTA matters from the Gardiner, DVP, Lake Shore, and 401, plus summary criminal charges. - [Hamilton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/hamilton): Criminal — John Sopinka Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 45 Main Street East, Hamilton, ON L8N 2B7. Hamilton, Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek, Flamborough and Glanbrook. Traffic/POA — Hamilton Provincial Offences Court, 50 Main Street East, Hamilton, ON L8N 1E9. All Hamilton-Wentworth provincial offences. Directly across Main Street from the John Sopinka Courthouse. Serves Hamilton, Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek, and Flamborough for both traffic and summary criminal matters. - [Ottawa](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/ottawa): Criminal — Ottawa Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 161 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 2K1. All Ottawa and National Capital Region criminal matters. Traffic/POA — Ottawa Provincial Offences Court, 100 Constellation Drive, Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8. All Ottawa provincial offences. The city's client service centres take payments and filings but do not hear matters. Covers Ottawa Police, OPP, and National Capital Region traffic and criminal summary matters. - [Barrie](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/barrie): Criminal — Barrie Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 75 Mulcaster Street, Barrie, ON L4M 3P2. Barrie and Simcoe County criminal matters. Traffic/POA — Barrie Provincial Offences Court, 45 Cedar Pointe Drive, Barrie, ON L4N 5R7. Barrie and Simcoe County. The same court service area also sits at Orillia, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach and Innisfil. Covers heavy OPP Central Region enforcement on the Highway 400 and Highway 11 corridors (high stunt-driving and speeding volume) plus Simcoe-county criminal matters. - [London](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/london): Criminal — London Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 80 Dundas Street, London, ON N6A 6A3. London and Middlesex County criminal matters. Traffic/POA — London Provincial Offences Court, 824 Dundas Street East, London, ON N5W 5R1. London and Middlesex County provincial offences. Serves Middlesex County and the 401 corridor between Toronto and Windsor for traffic and criminal matters. - [Kingston](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/kingston): Criminal — Frontenac County Court House (Ontario Court of Justice), 279 Wellington Street, Kingston, ON K7K 0B5. Kingston and Frontenac County criminal matters. Traffic/POA — Kingston Provincial Offences Court, 362 Montreal Street, Kingston, ON K7K 3H5. Kingston and Frontenac County provincial offences. Covers heavy OPP enforcement on the 401 between Belleville and Brockville, including common stunt-driving charges. - [Oshawa](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/oshawa): Criminal — Durham Region Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 150 Bond Street East, Oshawa, ON L1G 0A2. All Durham Region criminal matters — Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa and Clarington. Traffic/POA — Durham Provincial Offences Court, 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, ON L1N 0B3. All Durham Region provincial offences, at Regional Headquarters in Whitby. Serves Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, and Clarington, including heavily patrolled Highway 401 charges. - [Milton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/milton): Criminal — Milton Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 491 Steeles Avenue East, Milton, ON L9T 1Y7. All Halton Region criminal matters — Milton, Burlington, Oakville and Halton Hills. Traffic/POA — Halton Provincial Offences Court, 4085 Palladium Way, Burlington, ON L7M 2A6. All Halton Region provincial offences — Milton, Burlington, Oakville and Halton Hills. Replaced Halton's separate Milton and Burlington POA courts in 2019. Covers Highway 401 traffic enforcement near Milton and Halton-region criminal matters. - [Orangeville](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/orangeville): Criminal — Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. Dufferin County criminal matters, and criminal charges from Caledon. Traffic/POA — Orangeville Provincial Offences Court, 55 Zina Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 1E5. Dufferin County — Orangeville, Shelburne, Mono, Melancthon, Amaranth, Mulmur, Grand Valley and East Garafraxa. Part of the same building complex as the Orangeville Courthouse, whose public entrance is on Louisa Street. Covers OPP Dufferin enforcement on Highway 10/9 and Airport Road plus criminal matters from Dufferin County and Caledon. - [Newmarket](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/newmarket): Criminal — Newmarket Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 50 Eagle Street West, Newmarket, ON L3Y 6B1. All York Region criminal matters. Traffic/POA — York Region Provincial Offences Court, 17150 Yonge Street, 2nd Floor, Newmarket, ON L3Y 8V3. All York Region provincial offences — Newmarket, Aurora, Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan and the northern townships. Covers Highway 404/400 and Yonge Street traffic enforcement and York-region criminal summary matters. - [Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/caledon): Criminal — Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. Criminal matters from Caledon and Dufferin County. Traffic/POA — Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. Town of Caledon provincial offences only. Dufferin County matters go to the Orangeville POA court, which is a separate operation. Covers rural OPP highway enforcement (Airport Road, Highway 10/9/50), Caledon POA matters, and Caledon criminal charges heard at the Orangeville Courthouse. - [Burlington](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/burlington): Criminal — Milton Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 491 Steeles Avenue East, Milton, ON L9T 1Y7. All Halton Region criminal matters — Burlington, Milton, Oakville and Halton Hills. Traffic/POA — Halton Provincial Offences Court, 4085 Palladium Way, Burlington, ON L7M 2A6. All Halton Region provincial offences — Burlington, Milton, Oakville and Halton Hills. Replaced Halton's separate Burlington and Milton POA courts in 2019. Covers QEW/407 traffic enforcement and Halton-region criminal summary matters. - [Guelph](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/guelph): Criminal — Guelph Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 36 Wyndham Street South, Guelph, ON N1E 4M6. Guelph and Wellington County criminal matters. The Woolwich Street courthouse handles civil, family and small claims, not criminal. Traffic/POA — Guelph Provincial Offences Court, 59 Carden Street, Guelph, ON N1H 2Z9. All Guelph and Wellington County provincial offences. Covers Highway 6 and Hanlon Parkway traffic enforcement plus Guelph and Wellington County criminal matters. - [Orillia](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/orillia): Criminal — Orillia Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 700 Memorial Avenue, Cottage C, Orillia, ON L3V 0T7. Orillia and area criminal matters. Separate from the Barrie courthouse on Mulcaster Street. Traffic/POA — Orillia Provincial Offences Court, 575 West Street South, Unit 10, Orillia, ON L3V 7N6. Orillia court service area provincial offences, including the Penetanguishene satellite court. Administered by City of Barrie Court Services but distinct from the Barrie court at 45 Cedar Pointe Drive — Orillia matters carry ticket numbers beginning 3861. Covers Highway 11 and Highway 12 OPP enforcement north of Barrie plus Orillia-area criminal matters. - [Vaughan](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/vaughan): Criminal — Newmarket Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 50 Eagle Street West, Newmarket, ON L3Y 6B1. All York Region criminal matters, including Vaughan. There is no criminal court in Vaughan. Traffic/POA — York Region Provincial Offences Court, 17150 Yonge Street, 2nd Floor, Newmarket, ON L3Y 8V3. All York Region provincial offences — Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Newmarket, Aurora and the northern townships. Absorbed the Richmond Hill POA court on High Tech Road, which formerly heard southern York Region matters including Vaughan. Covers Highway 400, 407 and Highway 7 enforcement in Vaughan and York-region criminal matters heard at Newmarket. - [Welland](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/welland): Criminal — Welland Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 102 East Main Street, Welland, ON L3B 3W6. South Niagara criminal matters. North Niagara matters are heard at the St. Catharines courthouse on Church Street. Traffic/POA — Niagara Region Provincial Offences Court, 445 East Main Street, Welland, ON L3B 3X7. All Niagara Region provincial offences — Welland, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Thorold, Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, Wainfleet, West Lincoln and Niagara-on-the-Lake. Niagara runs a single POA courthouse for the region. Covers Highway 406 and south Niagara traffic enforcement plus Welland-area criminal matters. - [Windsor](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/windsor): Criminal — Windsor Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 200 Chatham Street East, Windsor, ON N9A 2W3. Windsor and Essex County criminal matters. The Windsor Avenue courthouse handles Superior Court civil matters, not criminal. Traffic/POA — Windsor/Essex Provincial Offences Court, Suite 401, 400 City Hall Square East, Windsor, ON N9A 7K6. All Windsor and Essex County provincial offences. Three courtrooms sit at this location. Covers Highway 401, E.C. Row Expressway and border-corridor traffic enforcement plus Windsor and Essex County criminal matters. - [Cambridge](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/cambridge): Criminal — Kitchener Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 85 Frederick Street, Kitchener, ON N2H 0A7. All Waterloo Region criminal matters — Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and the townships. There is no criminal court in Cambridge. Traffic/POA — Waterloo Region Provincial Offences Court, 77 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1. All Waterloo Region provincial offences — Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and the townships. The Region's Main Street office in Cambridge takes payments only; it is not a courtroom. Covers Highway 401 and Highway 8 traffic enforcement in Cambridge and Waterloo-region matters heard at Kitchener. - [Kitchener](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/kitchener): Criminal — Kitchener Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 85 Frederick Street, Kitchener, ON N2H 0A7. All Waterloo Region criminal matters — Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and the townships. Traffic/POA — Waterloo Region Provincial Offences Court, 77 Queen Street North, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1. All Waterloo Region provincial offences — Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and the townships. Covers Highway 401 and Conestoga Parkway traffic enforcement plus Waterloo-region criminal matters. - [Peterborough](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/peterborough): Criminal — Peterborough Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 70 Simcoe Street, Peterborough, ON K9H 7G9. Peterborough city and county criminal matters. Traffic/POA — Peterborough Provincial Offences Court, 70 Simcoe Street, Peterborough, ON K9H 7G9. All Peterborough city and county provincial offences. Trials and early resolution meetings sit in Courtroom 5 at the Simcoe Street courthouse; the City's Provincial Offences filing and payment office is separate, at 500 George Street North. Covers Highway 115 and Highway 7 traffic enforcement plus Peterborough city and county criminal matters. - [St. Catharines](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/locations/st-catharines): Criminal — St. Catharines Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 59 Church Street, St. Catharines, ON L2R 7N8. North Niagara criminal matters. South Niagara matters are heard at the Welland courthouse on East Main Street. Traffic/POA — Niagara Region Provincial Offences Court, 445 East Main Street, Welland, ON L3B 3X7. All Niagara Region provincial offences, St. Catharines included. Niagara runs a single POA courthouse, in Welland — there is no POA courtroom in St. Catharines. Covers QEW and north Niagara traffic enforcement plus St. Catharines-area criminal matters. ## Local Court Pages Each of these covers one charge at one courthouse. The local practice detail below is hand-written from first-hand experience of that court, not templated from the base offence page. - [Speeding in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/speeding-in-mississauga): Speeding charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. On a first speeding charge out of Mississauga, the Peel prosecutors will generally look at a reduction to a lesser offence rather than a withdrawal, and unlike Toronto they will still discuss it on the trial date. That matters more on speeding than on anything else, because the difference between one speed and the next one down is the difference between demerit points and none. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both the early resolution meeting and the trial date at the Mississauga court on Burnhamthorpe Road. - [Speeding in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/speeding-in-brampton): Speeding charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A Brampton speeding ticket is heard at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, not at the Davis courthouse on Hurontario Street — Brampton has two active courthouses, and speeding is the highest-volume charge, so it is the one people most often take to the wrong building. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence appears at Ray Lawson regularly and will tell you which building your Brampton ticket belongs in before you lose a date over it. - [Speeding in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/speeding-in-toronto): Speeding charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Speeding is probably the most frequently issued ticket in Toronto. Some people think that ex-police officers have the expertise to beat every speeding ticket. That is not true. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence, on the other hand, looks at the disclosure and pulls out the details that would help someone get a win. - [Speeding in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/speeding-in-caledon): Speeding charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Caledon speeding is rural OPP enforcement — laser, radar and pacing on Airport Road, Highway 10, Highway 9 and Highway 50 — and on those charges the case lives in the equipment records. Calibration records, maintenance logs and the officer's certification are part of the disclosure Point Duty Traffic Court Defence reviews on every Caledon file heard at the Old Church Road court, because a procedural defect in how the speed was measured is only ever found by reading them. - [Stunt Driving in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/stunt-driving-in-mississauga): Stunt Driving charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. By the time a Mississauga stunt driving charge reaches the court on Burnhamthorpe Road, the licence suspension and the vehicle impound have already happened at the roadside — they are not something the court imposed and not something the first appearance undoes. What is still in play is everything after: the longer suspension on conviction, the record, and the insurance. That is what Point Duty Traffic Court Defence is defending against in Mississauga, and it is why the roadside penalty being over does not mean the matter is. - [Stunt Driving in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/stunt-driving-in-brampton): Stunt Driving charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Brampton stunt driving charges split by who laid them: the OPP on the 410, the 407 and Highway 50, and Peel Regional Police on Hurontario and the city streets. Both end up at the Ray Lawson court, but they arrive as different files — different officers, different equipment, different notes and a different disclosure package. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence starts a Brampton stunt file by identifying which service is behind it, because that shapes what there is to work with. - [Stunt Driving in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/stunt-driving-in-toronto): Stunt Driving charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Stunt driving in Toronto is more than just speeding. It can be other elements such as popping wheelies and racing and other aggressive forms of driving. It is one of the most serious offences under the Highway Traffic Act. It also has some very serious consequences. You can lose your driver's licence for a year, and it involves a vehicle seizure that is costly. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence regularly resolves stunt driving tickets in Toronto. - [Stunt Driving in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/stunt-driving-in-caledon): Stunt Driving charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Caledon stunt driving charges come off a short list of roads the OPP Caledon Detachment works hard: the Caledon Mountain stretch of Highway 50, Airport Road, Highway 10 and Highway 9. They are open rural highways where the numbers climb without much sense of it, and they produce high-speed charges out of proportion to how many people live in the town. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence defends those at the Caledon court on Old Church Road. - [Careless Driving in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/careless-driving-in-mississauga): Careless Driving charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A Mississauga careless driving charge usually comes out of a collision on the 403, the 401 or the QEW, which means the officer who laid it did not see the driving. What the prosecution actually has is damage, vehicle positions, and several drivers each giving a different account at the roadside. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence reads Mississauga careless disclosure for the distance between that and what the charge requires — driving far below the standard of an ordinary prudent driver. - [Careless Driving in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/careless-driving-in-brampton): Careless Driving charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. In Brampton the same collision can go two ways, and the two ways are in different buildings: careless driving is a Highway Traffic Act charge heard at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, while dangerous driving is a Criminal Code charge heard at the Davis courthouse on Hurontario Street. That decision is often made by an officer at the roadside. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services acts on both sides of that line in Brampton, and on a careless charge the useful question is whether the driving ever came close to the criminal threshold at all. - [Careless Driving in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/careless-driving-in-toronto): Careless Driving charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Careless driving in Toronto is another very serious Highway Traffic Act offence. The police often use this charge as a catch-all offence, even in a minor fender bender. The prosecution has to prove that your standard of driving was far below what is considered to be normal for an ordinary prudent driver. That is the standard Point Duty Traffic Court Defence holds the prosecution to in Toronto Traffic Court. - [Careless Driving in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/careless-driving-in-caledon): Careless Driving charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A Caledon careless driving charge is often one vehicle off a rural road with no second driver, no witness and no officer present for the driving — the charge is built entirely from the scene after the fact. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence reads a Caledon careless file for what the OPP actually recorded at that scene and whether it reaches the standard the charge requires, because unlike a city collision there is no one else's account to test it against. - [Drive Suspended in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/drive-suspended-in-mississauga): Drive Suspended charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. The first question Point Duty Traffic Court Defence asks on a Mississauga drive suspended charge is not whether you were driving — it is why the licence was suspended in the first place. An administrative suspension for a defaulted fine, an MTO suspension and a court-ordered suspension are three different problems, and which one you have decides what can be done with the charge at the Burnhamthorpe Road court and what can be fixed before the court date arrives. - [Drive Suspended in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/drive-suspended-in-brampton): Drive Suspended charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A large share of Brampton drive suspended charges trace back to the same building that is now hearing them — a fine goes unpaid at the Ray Lawson court, the MTO suspends the licence for the default, the driver is stopped, and the new charge comes back to Ray Lawson. Clients find that loop genuinely confusing. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence starts a Brampton drive suspended file by dealing with the underlying fine, because the charge and its cause are in the same place. - [Drive Suspended in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/drive-suspended-in-toronto): Drive Suspended charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. In Toronto Traffic Court, driving under suspension is often resolved, if it's the first time, to driving with no licence. That way a further suspension is avoided and the consequences are minimal. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence looks for that resolution on a first drive suspended charge in Toronto. - [Drive Suspended in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/drive-suspended-in-caledon): Drive Suspended charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Most Caledon drive suspended charges begin with the plate, not the driving. An OPP cruiser on a rural highway runs the plate of a vehicle it has no other reason to stop, the registered owner comes back suspended, and the stop follows from that. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence reads a Caledon drive suspended file for how the stop actually came about and what the officer knew before it, and the matter is heard at the Old Church Road court. - [Novice Driver Charges in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/novice-driver-in-mississauga): Novice Driver Charges charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. For a novice driver the penalty does not run through demerit points, it runs through the graduated licensing scheme — suspensions and escalating consequences attached to the licence itself. So a Mississauga G1 or G2 driver who takes a quick plea to make a charge go away can lose the licence they were still working toward. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence defends novice driver charges at the Burnhamthorpe Road court with the licence, not the fine, as the thing being protected. - [Novice Driver Charges in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/novice-driver-in-brampton): Novice Driver Charges charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Peel lays more stunt driving charges than almost anywhere in the province, and a share of those drivers are G2s. A novice driver charged that way is on two tracks at once — the roadside suspension and impound that apply to anyone, and the graduated licensing consequences that apply only to them. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence handles both sides of that at the Ray Lawson court, because resolving the Brampton ticket and protecting the novice licence are not the same job. - [Novice Driver Charges in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/novice-driver-in-toronto): Novice Driver Charges charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Toronto prosecutors are often sympathetic towards new drivers and novice drivers. They often do what they can to avoid having the novice driver's licence suspended. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence uses that in Toronto Traffic Court when defending a G1 or G2 driver. - [Novice Driver Charges in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/novice-driver-in-caledon): Novice Driver Charges charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A rural OPP stop tends to be unhurried, and on a Caledon road that means the licence class gets looked at properly — conditions checked, passengers counted, the time of night noted. A novice driver who would go unnoticed in city traffic gets the full read out here, and the charge that follows is about the conditions on the licence rather than about the driving. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence defends Caledon G1 and G2 drivers at the Old Church Road court on that basis. - [Fail to Remain in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/fail-to-remain-in-mississauga): Fail to Remain charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A great many Mississauga fail to remain charges come out of a plaza or mall parking lot rather than a road — low-speed contact that the driver may genuinely not have felt or noticed. That matters, because leaving a scene you did not know existed is a different thing from leaving one you did. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence reads a Mississauga fail to remain file at the Burnhamthorpe Road court for what the driver actually knew at the time. - [Fail to Remain in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/fail-to-remain-in-brampton): Fail to Remain charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A Brampton collision where someone drove off can go one of two ways, and an officer at the roadside usually decides which: a Highway Traffic Act fail to remain heard at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, or a criminal fail to stop heard at the Davis courthouse on Hurontario Street. The conduct can look identical; the consequences do not. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence acts on both, and on a Brampton fail to remain the first thing worth knowing is which of the two you are actually facing. - [Fail to Remain in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/fail-to-remain-in-toronto): Fail to Remain charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Defending fail to remain charges in Toronto Traffic Court is sometimes easy for Point Duty Traffic Court Defence. I have found that where the prosecution is unable to prove its case, it is because Point Duty Traffic Court Defence is able to identify the prosecutor's lack of identification of the driver. - [Fail to Remain in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/fail-to-remain-in-caledon): Fail to Remain charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. In Caledon the thing struck is frequently not another vehicle — a mailbox, a gate, a fence line, a parked trailer. There is no other driver at the scene, the owner finds the damage later, and the investigation starts from debris and a paint transfer rather than from a witness. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence reads a Caledon fail to remain file at the Old Church Road court for whether the OPP can actually connect a driver to that damage. - [Disobey Stop Sign in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/disobey-stop-sign-in-mississauga): Disobey Stop Sign charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Almost no Mississauga stop sign charge involves a driver sailing through — it is a slow roll, and the dispute is whether the wheels ever actually stopped. That is a judgment made by an officer watching from an angle, at a distance, for a second or two, and where they were positioned is as much a part of the case as what the driver did. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works Mississauga stop sign charges at the Burnhamthorpe Road court from exactly that question. - [Disobey Stop Sign in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/disobey-stop-sign-in-brampton): Disobey Stop Sign charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Brampton's newer subdivisions are full of four-way stops, and the charge that comes out of them is usually not about whether anyone stopped — it is about who stopped first and who had the right to go. That makes it an argument about sequence, often between two drivers who each remember it differently, and frequently after a near-miss or a collision. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works Brampton stop sign charges at the Ray Lawson court on that question. - [Disobey Stop Sign in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/disobey-stop-sign-in-toronto): Disobey Stop Sign charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Disobeying a stop sign is an offence that is frequently defended by Point Duty Traffic Court Defence in Toronto Traffic Court. It is an offence that is frequently resolved to minimize the penalty and insurance consequences. - [Disobey Stop Sign in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/disobey-stop-sign-in-caledon): Disobey Stop Sign charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A missed stop sign in a city is a fender bender. At a Caledon concession-road crossing it is two vehicles meeting at highway speed with nothing to slow either of them, which is why the OPP work these intersections far harder than the size of the ticket suggests. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence defends Caledon stop sign charges at the Old Church Road court knowing the enforcement behind them is about the collision that did not happen. - [No Insurance in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/no-insurance-in-mississauga): No Insurance charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Driving with no insurance carries one of the heaviest minimum fines in the Highway Traffic Act, which makes it the worst possible ticket to quietly pay off — and paying it is a guilty plea, so the fine is only where the cost starts. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Mississauga drivers do exactly that at the Burnhamthorpe Road court, usually because the amount on the ticket does not look like something that can be argued with. - [No Insurance in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/no-insurance-in-brampton): No Insurance charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Brampton carries some of the highest auto insurance premiums in the country, and that is the honest reason behind a good number of the no insurance charges at the Ray Lawson court — coverage lapses because it cannot be afforded, not because the driver was indifferent. The conviction then makes the problem worse, because it moves a driver into the categories where insurance costs most. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence takes that seriously on a Brampton no insurance charge, because the cost of the conviction outlasts the fine by years. - [No Insurance in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/no-insurance-in-toronto): No Insurance charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Driving with no insurance is a very serious ticket in Toronto Traffic Court. In most cases, the onus is on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed an offence. Driving with no insurance in Toronto is one of those rare offences where the onus is reversed, and you have to prove to the court that you actually had a contract of automobile insurance at the date and time that you were stopped by the police. That reverse onus is where Point Duty Traffic Court Defence starts on a no insurance charge in Toronto Traffic Court. - [No Insurance in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/no-insurance-in-caledon): No Insurance charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. There is no transit in Caledon, so when insurance lapses the driving usually does not stop — work, school and everything else are a long drive away and there is no other way to get there. That is not a defence, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence will not pretend otherwise, but it is the reason most Caledon no insurance charges exist and it is worth the Old Church Road court hearing it properly rather than not at all. - [Distracted Driving in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/distracted-driving-in-mississauga): Distracted Driving charges in Mississauga are heard at Mississauga Provincial Offences Court, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga, ON L5C 3B4. The court's number is (905) 615-3000. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. The distracted driving ticket people most often just pay is the one that costs the most later: the penalties escalate sharply on a second and a third conviction, so a quiet guilty plea on a first charge is really a decision about where it leaves you next time. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence looks at a Mississauga distracted driving charge with that in mind at the Burnhamthorpe Road court, because the fine is not the part of this ticket that matters. - [Distracted Driving in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/distracted-driving-in-brampton): Distracted Driving charges in Brampton are heard at Brampton Provincial Offences Court, 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton, ON L6Y 5L7. The court's number is (905) 450-4770. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. A phone in a proper mount is lawful in Brampton; the same phone in a hand is not, and most charges at the Ray Lawson court sit on that line rather than on someone texting at speed. Adjusting a mounted phone, holding it while stopped in a live lane, passing it to a passenger — people know the rule roughly and get the edges wrong. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence defends Brampton distracted driving charges by establishing where the phone actually was. - [Distracted Driving in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/distracted-driving-in-toronto): Distracted Driving charges in Toronto are heard at 3 courts: Toronto South Provincial Offences Court, 92 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 0G2; Toronto East Provincial Offences Court, 1530 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 3M4; and Toronto West Provincial Offences Court, 2700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON M6M 1V1. Which one hears a given matter depends on where the charge was laid. All of them answer on (416) 338-7320. Toronto South Provincial Offences Court covers Downtown and central Toronto. Toronto East Provincial Offences Court covers Scarborough and the east end. Toronto West Provincial Offences Court covers Etobicoke, York and North York. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP Highway Safety Division, GO Transit / Metrolinx Enforcement, Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Toronto traffic matters run 10 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies, but that is the usual range. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence finds the Toronto prosecutors love early resolutions. Recently they have been saying that resolutions are not available on the date of trial, but they sometimes cave. Generally, for a first offence, they would offer a reasonable resolution. Yes, it runs virtual courts. Although it's been a subject of conversation, I haven't seen a situation where a trial or other appearance has been ordered in person. All three traffic courts in Toronto run on the same procedure. You can file tickets online through their online portal, and you can make a request for trial or early resolution. Reopenings have to be delivered in person — they cannot be emailed, as they can in some other jurisdictions. Toronto seems to be a hotbed for people touching their phones at the wrong time. Some people believe that picking their phone up after it falls off the seat is okay. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The moment that you touch the phone when you're not supposed to is fair game for a ticket. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence has been able to minimize the damage by getting the ticket reduced to a lesser offence or getting rid of the ticket altogether. - [Distracted Driving in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/traffic-offences/distracted-driving-in-caledon): Distracted Driving charges in Caledon are heard at Caledon Provincial Offences Court, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, ON L7C 1J6. The court's number is (905) 584-2273. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence sees Peel traffic matters run 6 to 12 months from charge to resolution. It varies more here than it does in Toronto, where the range sits at the top of that band rather than across it. Peel prosecutors will resolve a matter either way. You can ask for an early resolution meeting, and the trial date is still a live opportunity to deal — a real difference from Toronto, where the prosecutors have been saying resolutions are not available on the date of trial. On a first offence the usual landing spot in Peel is a reduction to a lesser offence. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence works both openings at the Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon courts. Reopenings can be emailed to the Peel Provincial Offences courts. That is worth knowing if you have dealt with Toronto, where a reopening has to be delivered in person and cannot be emailed. Peel has three separate POA courts — Mississauga on Burnhamthorpe Road, Brampton on Ray Lawson Boulevard and Caledon on Old Church Road — and your ticket goes to the one for the municipality where it was issued. Toronto's distracted driving problem is congestion; Caledon's is the opposite. On an empty concession road or a quiet stretch of Airport Road it feels like there is nobody to hit and nobody watching, so the phone comes out. An OPP unit on a rural road has a long clear sightline and very little else to look at, which is a far better observation position than any city officer gets. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence defends Caledon distracted driving charges at the Old Church Road court. - [Assault in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/assault-in-mississauga): Assault charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. On a Mississauga assault file the disclosure often is not available until well after the first appearance — Peel tends to be slow with it — and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services treats those months as working time rather than dead time. The Crown at the Davis courthouse in Brampton, where Mississauga assault charges are heard, generally wants to see counselling or similar work already underway before discussing resolution, and the wait for disclosure is the window in which it can be done. - [Assault in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/assault-in-brampton): Assault charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. The question almost every Brampton assault client asks is whether the complainant can drop the charge, and the answer is no. Once Peel Regional Police attend and lay it, only the Crown at the Davis courthouse can withdraw it — the complainant's wishes are something the Crown will hear, not something that ends the matter. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services says that plainly at the first meeting on a Brampton assault, because clients who believe otherwise tend to wait instead of preparing. - [Assault in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/assault-in-toronto): Assault charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. At the Toronto criminal courthouse on Armoury Street, the first thing Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services checks on an assault file is not whether you struck anyone — it's whether the Crown has designated the matter domestic, because that one flag moves your case into Toronto's domestic violence stream, restricts contact with the complainant before trial, and largely decides whether a s.810 peace bond or PARS resolution is available to you at all. - [Assault in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/assault-in-caledon): Assault charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. Caledon is in Peel Region, but a Caledon assault charge is not heard with the rest of Peel. Mississauga and Brampton assaults go to the Davis courthouse in Brampton; Caledon's go to the Ontario Court of Justice at 10 Louisa Street in Orangeville, in Dufferin County — a different Crown's office, a different bench, and the OPP rather than Peel Regional Police as the investigating service. The drive is short, since the two communities are adjacent, but it is a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears in it. - [Theft Under $5,000 in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/theft-under-in-mississauga): Theft Under $5,000 charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Most Mississauga theft under $5,000 charges start in a store rather than with the police — Square One and the big-box corridors, where a loss prevention officer made the stop, took a statement and held the accused before an officer ever arrived. So the first thing Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads in the disclosure is how that detention was carried out and what the store's own evidence actually shows, because a Mississauga retail theft file is largely built by the retailer before it reaches the Crown at Brampton's Davis courthouse. - [Theft Under $5,000 in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/theft-under-in-brampton): Theft Under $5,000 charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Toronto Crowns will often consider diversion on a first theft under $5,000 and build the terms afterwards. At the Davis courthouse where Brampton theft charges are heard it runs in the other order — a Peel Crown generally wants to see the property returned, the restitution paid or the program already started before diversion is a real conversation. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services puts that work in front of a Brampton client early, because in Peel it is the price of admission rather than the outcome. - [Theft Under $5,000 in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/theft-under-in-toronto): Theft Under $5,000 charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. At Toronto's Armoury Street courthouse, the first thing Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services looks for in a theft under $5,000 disclosure is what the Crown is already offering, and then what would be better than that. Toronto Crowns take these one at a time — on a first offence diversion is often considered, the value of the property matters, and so does the difference between someone who took food because they were hungry and someone who took brand-name clothes to look good — and if the property was recovered and returned, the file is much easier to resolve, while restitution often becomes part of the terms when it can't be. - [Theft Under $5,000 in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/theft-under-in-caledon): Theft Under $5,000 charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. A Caledon theft under $5,000 usually has a complainant who is known to the accused — a neighbour, a local employer, a business on the main street — rather than an anonymous chain store with a loss prevention department. That changes the file: the complainant's view of how it should end carries real weight with the Crown at Orangeville, and making restitution to someone you will keep running into is a different proposition than repaying a retailer. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services works that angle on Caledon theft charges. - [Mischief in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/mischief-in-mississauga): Mischief charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. On a Mississauga mischief file the damage is the case, and in Peel getting it repaired, replaced or repaid is not something that earns credit at the end — it is generally what the Crown at Brampton's Davis courthouse wants to see before a resolution conversation happens at all. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tells Mississauga clients that early, because the repair usually takes less time than the disclosure does. - [Mischief in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/mischief-in-brampton): Mischief charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. A Brampton mischief charge often arrives attached to a domestic incident — a phone broken, a door put through, something thrown — and the practical problem it creates is not the damage. It is the release conditions that come with it, which can keep someone out of their own home and away from their family for as long as the file runs. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services deals with those conditions first on a Brampton mischief at the Davis courthouse, because that is what is actually costing the client something today. - [Mischief in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/mischief-in-toronto): Mischief charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. Mischief at 10 Armoury Street in Toronto usually comes from someone angrily damaging property that isn't theirs, often out of an argument with a domestic partner or a complete stranger — but a mischief is not necessarily routed into Toronto's domestic violence stream, even when it arrives alongside a domestic assault charge. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads the disclosure for the gap between the Crown's version and the client's, and whether there is a reasonable prospect of conviction sitting in it; meanwhile the faster the damage is repaid, repaired or replaced, the more room a Toronto Crown tends to leave for a common law peace bond — and in some cases the Crown will consider whether a prosecution is still in the public interest where remorse is shown early and the damage is already made good. - [Mischief in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/mischief-in-caledon): Mischief charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. On a Caledon mischief the fastest route to a sensible outcome is usually the most obvious one: get the damage repaired or replaced, and deal with it directly. The Crown at Orangeville generally wants to see that done before discussing how the charge should end, and in a community where the complainant is likely to be a neighbour, the repair matters to them more than the prosecution does. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services works Caledon mischief files in that order. - [Cause Disturbance in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/cause-disturbance-in-mississauga): Cause Disturbance charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. A cause disturbance charge out of Mississauga very often has something behind it — a crisis, a health issue, a bad night that was not really about the place it happened in. The Crown at Brampton's Davis courthouse generally wants to see that being addressed before discussing how the charge should end, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services starts there rather than at the courtroom door, particularly on a charge where the criminal record is the only real penalty. - [Cause Disturbance in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/cause-disturbance-in-brampton): Cause Disturbance charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Cause disturbance rarely arrives on its own in Brampton — it is usually stacked onto whatever else was charged that night, and it tends to be the softest count in the set. That makes it the first candidate to fall away when the whole file is resolved rather than something to fight in isolation. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads a Brampton cause disturbance charge at the Davis courthouse as part of the package it came in, not as a case of its own. - [Cause Disturbance in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/cause-disturbance-in-toronto): Cause Disturbance charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. Toronto's Armoury Street courthouse does not see many cause disturbance charges — it is more a nuisance to police, who are likelier to give someone a talking-to — and when one is laid it starts somewhere public: a bar, a sporting event, a crowd. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads the disclosure against the definition, because being loud or swearing at an officer is not by itself the offence: the Crown has to show a real disturbance of the public's ordinary use of the place, an officer's own annoyance does not count, and it is an officer's evidence of how other people reacted that usually proves the disturbance. Depending on the circumstances a Toronto Crown will often consider a withdrawal in the public interest or some form of diversion, and the charge is worth testing either way because the real cost here is the criminal record, not the penalty. - [Cause Disturbance in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/cause-disturbance-in-caledon): Cause Disturbance charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. A cause disturbance charge requires a real disturbance to the public's ordinary use of a place, and the proof of it usually comes from an officer describing how other people reacted. On a Caledon road at one in the morning there may not have been any other people, which means the element the Crown normally relies on simply is not there. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads a Caledon cause disturbance file at the Orangeville courthouse for exactly that gap. - [Dangerous Driving in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/dangerous-driving-in-mississauga): Dangerous Driving charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. More and more Mississauga dangerous driving charges are proved with another motorist's dashcam rather than an officer's own observation. That closes off the identification argument, but it opens a different one: a clip begins at the moment the recording driver decided something was worth keeping, and what happened in the seconds before it is usually missing. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services asks for the whole file on a Mississauga dangerous driving charge at the Davis courthouse, not the part that was handed in. - [Dangerous Driving in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/dangerous-driving-in-brampton): Dangerous Driving charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Dangerous driving is a charge where the first question is whether Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services can act at all. A paralegal may take the basic dangerous operation offence once the Crown elects to proceed summarily; where the driving caused bodily harm or death, the matter falls outside paralegal scope and a Brampton client is referred to a lawyer. On the files we can take at the Davis courthouse, what the Crown has to prove is a marked departure from what a reasonable driver would have done — not simply bad driving. - [Dangerous Driving in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/dangerous-driving-in-toronto): Dangerous Driving charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. Dangerous driving and careless driving sit close together, and at the Toronto courthouse on Armoury Street what usually pushes police to lay the criminal charge is the seriousness of the driving and whether anyone was hurt — but the Crown has to prove more than bad driving. It has to prove a marked departure from what a reasonable driver would have done, which is the line between the Criminal Code offence and the Highway Traffic Act one, and Toronto officers will often lay both at once — dangerous driving paired with a stunt driving ticket is a common sight — expecting the criminal charge may come down to the ticket in the end. The Crown's evidence usually comes direct from the police; where a member of the public is the one who complained, identity and whether the driving really met the threshold are harder to prove. So the first thing Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads the disclosure for is whether the Crown has enough to take away a client's driving privileges: a prohibition order stops you driving anywhere in Canada, and where no prohibition is made the MTO will generally impose an administrative suspension once it is notified of the conviction, with the insurance consequences on top. - [Dangerous Driving in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/dangerous-driving-in-caledon): Dangerous Driving charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. Dangerous driving requires a marked departure from what a reasonable driver would have done, and that standard is measured in the conditions the driving actually happened in. On the Caledon Mountain in February, on gravel shoulders or on an unlit concession road, a reasonable driver also loses traction — which makes the criminal threshold considerably harder for the Crown to reach than it looks on paper. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services defends Caledon dangerous driving charges at the Orangeville courthouse from the conditions up. - [Prohibited Driving in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/prohibited-driving-in-mississauga): Prohibited Driving charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Not every Mississauga prohibited driving charge involves someone who knew they were barred from driving. Some involve a driver on a conditional or interlock-restricted licence who believed they were permitted to drive — and was, but only in a particular vehicle on particular terms. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads the order itself first on these files at the Davis courthouse, because what the driver was actually allowed to do is not always what anyone assumed. - [Prohibited Driving in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/prohibited-driving-in-brampton): Prohibited Driving charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Prohibited driving is the charge at the Davis courthouse where a Brampton client is most likely to be facing actual custody, and Peel's expectation that the work is already underway before resolution is discussed matters more here than anywhere else, because there is less room to negotiate once jail is on the table. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services starts a Brampton prohibited driving file by finding out what the prosecution is seeking, and then by getting ahead of it while the disclosure is still coming. - [Prohibited Driving in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/prohibited-driving-in-toronto): Prohibited Driving charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. Driving while prohibited usually traces back to a court order made after an earlier conviction for impaired or dangerous driving, and at the Armoury Street courthouse in Toronto the Crown has to prove the person drove knowing they were prohibited — rarely a hard hill when the prohibition was pronounced in open court with the driver standing there. Most of these surface through a plate check: many Toronto police vehicles now carry automatic licence plate readers, and a hit flags the plate's registered owner as a prohibited driver, though manual plate queries and ordinary traffic stops turn up just as many. It rarely comes down to a provincial offence — sometimes an HTA drive suspended — because the charge grows out of a court order, and the court does not take kindly to its orders being disregarded. With jail, a criminal record and a further prohibition stacked on the one already running all on the table, the first thing Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads is the charge screening form, to see whether the prosecution is seeking jail. - [Prohibited Driving in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/prohibited-driving-in-caledon): Prohibited Driving charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. A driving prohibition stops you driving anywhere in Canada, and in a township with no transit that does not mean inconvenience — it means every trip to work, school, a doctor or a grocery store has to be arranged through somebody else, for a year or longer. That is why these orders get breached, and it is why a Caledon prohibited driving file at the Orangeville courthouse has to address how the person is actually going to live. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services treats that as part of the case, not as an excuse. - [Criminal Harassment in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/criminal-harassment-in-mississauga): Criminal Harassment charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Mississauga criminal harassment files increasingly arrive as screenshots — direct messages, social media, tagged locations — rather than as a phone record. What the complainant hands police is a selection, and the blocks, the replies and the messages going the other way are frequently not in it. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services pushes for the complete exchange on a Mississauga harassment file at the Davis courthouse, which is one occasion where Peel's slower disclosure is worth waiting out. - [Criminal Harassment in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/criminal-harassment-in-brampton): Criminal Harassment charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. On a Brampton criminal harassment file, contact passed through somebody else still counts as contact. Asking a cousin to deliver a message or having a friend check on the complainant is how well-intentioned people in close extended-family networks turn one charge into two. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services says that plainly at the first meeting on a Brampton harassment charge at the Davis courthouse, because it is the mistake that does the most damage the fastest. - [Criminal Harassment in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/criminal-harassment-in-toronto): Criminal Harassment charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. 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. - [Criminal Harassment in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/criminal-harassment-in-caledon): Criminal Harassment charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. A city criminal harassment file is often built from message threads that have to be transcribed. A Caledon one frequently has nothing to transcribe at all — no texts, no messages, just two accounts of who was where and how often. That puts the whole case on the complainant's recollection, and on whether the fear it describes was reasonable in the circumstances. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services works Caledon harassment files at the Orangeville courthouse on that footing. - [Uttering Threats in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/uttering-threats-in-mississauga): Uttering Threats charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Uttering threats reaches the Davis courthouse from Mississauga most often out of road rage — a confrontation on the 403 or in a parking lot between two people who have never met and will not meet again. With no relationship behind it there is no history to explain the words, so what was actually said and who actually said it are the entire case, usually from someone who was themselves in the argument. On scope, Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services may act on the s.264.1(3) branch — threats to damage property or injure an animal — once the Crown elects to proceed summarily; a threat of death or bodily harm falls outside paralegal scope and is referred to a lawyer. - [Uttering Threats in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/uttering-threats-in-brampton): Uttering Threats charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. Almost every Brampton uttering threats client says the same thing: they were angry and did not mean it. That is not an answer on its own, because the words are measured by how a reasonable person would hear them in the circumstances — and in Peel an explanation is the weaker half of the response, because the Crown at the Davis courthouse generally wants to see something actually being done before discussing how the charge ends. On scope, Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services may act on the s.264.1(3) branch — threats to damage property or injure an animal — once the Crown elects to proceed summarily; a threat of death or bodily harm goes to a lawyer. - [Uttering Threats in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/uttering-threats-in-toronto): Uttering Threats charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. Uttering threats reaches the Armoury Street courthouse in Toronto out of domestic disputes, road rage, and arguments between neighbours or coworkers, and where it grows out of an intimate partner or similar relationship the domestic designation is attached. Unlike criminal harassment, the Crown does not have to show the complainant was actually afraid — the words are measured objectively, as a reasonable person would hear them in context, and the question is whether they were meant to be taken seriously, which is why "I was angry" or "I was only kidding" does not end the matter on its own: a Toronto Crown weighs the seriousness of the whole incident around the words. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads the disclosure for whether the Crown has the proof and what resolution can be had. On scope, a paralegal may act on the s.264.1(3) branch — threats to damage property or injure an animal — once the Crown elects to proceed summarily; a threat of death or bodily harm falls outside paralegal scope and is referred to a lawyer. - [Uttering Threats in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/uttering-threats-in-caledon): Uttering Threats charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. A Caledon uttering threats charge is usually the end of something rather than the start of it — a boundary, access or livestock dispute between rural neighbours that has been running for years before anyone said anything actionable. The words are judged by how a reasonable person would hear them in context, and that history is the context, yet it is rarely in the disclosure unless somebody asks for it. On scope, Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services may act on the s.264.1(3) branch — threats to damage property or injure an animal — once the Crown elects to proceed summarily; a threat of death or bodily harm is referred to a lawyer. - [Fail to Stop After Accident in Mississauga](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/fail-to-stop-accident-in-mississauga): Fail to Stop After Accident charges in Mississauga are heard at Ontario Court of Justice — Brampton, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. A Mississauga fail to stop file is usually built at the registered owner's address rather than at the scene — officers attend hours later, photograph the vehicle and try to establish who was driving, because the plate proves the car and not the person. What was said at that door tends to decide the case, so that is what Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads a Mississauga disclosure at the Davis courthouse for. On scope, a paralegal may act on s.320.16(1); where the accident caused bodily harm or death, the matter goes to a lawyer. - [Fail to Stop After Accident in Brampton](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/fail-to-stop-accident-in-brampton): Fail to Stop After Accident charges in Brampton are heard at A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, ON L6W 4T1. The court's number is (905) 456-4700. Charges are laid by Peel Regional Police, OPP, RCMP. Peel tends to be a little slow in providing disclosure — often it is not available until well after the first appearance. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services counts that in when setting expectations at the Davis courthouse: the overall range is similar to Toronto's, but a larger share of it is spent waiting for the Crown's first package rather than waiting for a date. A Peel Crown generally wants to see the work already underway before they will discuss resolution — counselling started, restitution paid, whatever the file calls for. That is the main difference from Toronto, where a Crown will usually have the conversation first and build the terms afterwards. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services raises that with clients at the Brampton courthouse early, because the months before disclosure arrives are when the work can be done. Brampton has two active courthouses and people go to the wrong one. Criminal matters are at 7755 Hurontario Street — the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse — while Highway Traffic Act tickets and other provincial offences are heard a few kilometres away at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard. Toronto's problem is the opposite: it consolidated six courthouses into one building in March 2023 and clients still turn up at the old ones. In Brampton both buildings are open and both are busy. A Brampton driver who exchanges information, goes home and calls their insurance company often believes the collision has been dealt with. Reporting to an insurer is not reporting to the police, and the duty that attaches after a collision is not satisfied by a claim. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees that misunderstanding turn into a criminal charge at the Davis courthouse, and reads the file for what the driver did in the hours afterwards, because that is often the difference between this charge and a Highway Traffic Act one. On scope, a paralegal may act on s.320.16(1); where the accident caused bodily harm or death, the matter goes to a lawyer. - [Fail to Stop After Accident in Toronto](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/fail-to-stop-accident-in-toronto): Fail to Stop After Accident charges in Toronto are heard at Toronto Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, ON M5T 0C2. The court's number is (416) 327-5707. Charges are laid by Toronto Police Service, OPP, RCMP. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services sees Toronto criminal matters take 8 to 15 months to complete, despite the Chief Justice of Ontario's directive that a matter be set down for trial or resolved with a plea within six months. Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services finds that, depending on the nature and seriousness of an offence, a Toronto Crown does offer diversion, a peace bond, or a conditional or absolute discharge. On occasion they may resolve a matter with a donation to a charity, though that is occasional and dependent on the Crown. Toronto criminal court does run virtual appearances. At case management stages the appearances can be virtual, although the accused person can appear in person if they wish. Generally, you only need to appear in person if there is going to be a guilty plea, and if you ask the court for permission to appear virtually for a guilty plea, it is often granted where jail is not on the table. For the moment, peace bonds can be heard virtually. Trials, however, have to be done in person unless there are some extreme extenuating circumstances. All the courts that used to be spread across Toronto are now in one place. It is easy to reach by transit on the University line of the subway, and there is paid parking in the area. Everyone has to go through security. The case management courts are usually on the second floor, in front of a justice of the peace, but when things are taking too long they end up in front of a judge, usually on the eighth floor — which is also where a guilty plea before a judge is usually done. The case management drug court is on the tenth floor. Paralegals cannot handle youth matters; the youth courts are on the sixth floor. The Chief Justice has issued a directive that matters must be set down for trial or resolved within six months, and the court is not too backed up anymore. Whether a collision becomes a criminal fail to stop or stays a Highway Traffic Act ticket turns partly on officer discretion, and in Toronto — where these are heard at the Armoury Street courthouse — what usually tips it is an obvious attempt to get clear of civil and criminal liability, with injury and damage weighing in — though since December 2018 that intent is no longer something the Crown has to prove under s.320.16, only the thing that draws the charge in the first place. People leave for reasons that feel urgent at the time — fear of the consequences, no insurance, no licence, a suspension — and none of that changes how the Crown pursues the charge unless it rises to a "reasonable excuse," which is a high bar: getting a dying child to a hospital might qualify, and even then the Crown will ask why an ambulance wasn't called. Identification is the same battleground as the provincial fail to remain, except that police tend to take extra steps to solidify a criminal file, so the first thing Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services reads for is whether the Crown can prove who was driving — and where the incident was not egregious, a Toronto Crown is very often amenable to amending down to an HTA fail to remain or fail to report the accident. On scope, a paralegal may act on s.320.16(1); where the accident caused bodily harm or death, the matter goes to a lawyer. - [Fail to Stop After Accident in Caledon](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/criminal-offences/fail-to-stop-accident-in-caledon): Fail to Stop After Accident charges in Caledon are heard at Orangeville Courthouse (Ontario Court of Justice), 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 3P9. The court's number is (519) 941-5802. Charges are laid by OPP. The Crown's office at Orangeville expects the same thing a Peel Crown does — the work started before the conversation about resolution happens. What differs is scale. It is a small office, so Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services tends to deal with the same prosecutor across a file's appearances rather than a different one each time, and a position taken early tends to hold. Orangeville runs virtual appearances the same way the larger courts do — case management can be attended virtually, while guilty pleas and trials are in person unless the court grants permission otherwise. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's or Toronto's, but it is not a different system, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services appears there on the same footing. Caledon criminal matters are heard at Orangeville, at 10 Louisa Street. Caledon and Orangeville are adjacent communities and the drive is not far. The court sits daily. It is a smaller courthouse than Brampton's, but it runs relatively similarly to other GTA courts, so a Caledon file is not on a slower or stranger track than a Mississauga or Brampton one — it is simply in a different Crown's office, with the OPP as the investigating service. The Crown's answer to almost every reason for leaving a collision is to ask why the driver did not simply call. On a Caledon concession road at night that question can have a real answer — no cell signal, no shoulder to stop on, no lighting and nobody around. It does not decide the case, but it is the one place where reasoning that works in a city does not transfer, and Point Duty Traffic Court Defence and Legal Services makes sure the Orangeville court hears the conditions the driver was actually in. On scope, a paralegal may act on s.320.16(1); where the accident caused bodily harm or death, the matter goes to a lawyer. ## Blog Plain-language guides on Ontario traffic law, criminal charges, residential tenancy matters, and the court process, written by Kerlan McLean. - [What Happens If You Miss Your Court Date in Ontario?](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/missed-court-date-ontario) (2026-07-21): Explains the two very different consequences of missing a court date — conviction in absence on a traffic ticket, and a bench warrant plus a failure to appear charge on a criminal matter — and how to apply to have a conviction struck. - [How Long Does It Take to Evict a Tenant in Ontario? (Realistic 2026 Timeline)](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/how-long-to-evict-tenant-ontario) (2026-07-14): A realistic step-by-step timeline for an Ontario eviction, from serving the N4 through the L1 application, the Landlord and Tenant Board hearing, and sheriff enforcement — and what slows each stage down. - [Charged With Assault in Ontario? Here's What Actually Happens Next](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/assault-charge-ontario-what-happens) (2026-07-07): Walks through what an assault charge in Ontario means, the court process, and the options — including peace bonds and diversion — for resolving a first charge without a criminal record. - [Theft Under $5,000 in Ontario: What First-Time Accused Need to Know](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/theft-under-5000-ontario-first-time) (2026-07-07): Explains what a theft under $5,000 charge means, what a conviction costs beyond the fine (criminal record, U.S. border, employment, professional licensing), and the realistic first-time options — diversion, absolute and conditional discharges, and withdrawal. - [Got an N4 Notice in Ontario? Here's What It Actually Means](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/n4-notice-ontario-tenant) (2026-07-07): Explains that an N4 is a notice for non-payment of rent, not an eviction — what the termination date really means, how a tenant can void it by paying, and what happens if the landlord files an L1. - [How a Traffic Ticket Affects Your Car Insurance in Ontario — The Numbers](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/traffic-ticket-insurance-impact-ontario) (2026-06-30): Breaks down, by offence type, how much a traffic conviction actually raises your insurance premiums over the years it stays on your record, and what you can do to limit the cost. - [The Ontario Rent Increase Guideline, Explained — How Much Can Your Rent Go Up?](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/ontario-rent-increase-guideline) (2026-06-25): Covers the annual rent increase guideline, the once-a-year and 90-day notice rules, which units are exempt, above-guideline increases, and what a tenant can do about an increase that breaks the rules. - [Stunt Driving in Ontario: What Happens the Moment You're Pulled Over](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/stunt-driving-ontario-what-happens) (2026-06-23): Explains exactly what happens at the roadside (automatic 30-day suspension and 14-day impound), what a conviction means for your licence and insurance, and how the charge can be defended. - [Charged With a Minor Criminal Offence? What "Summary Conviction" Means](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/summary-conviction-minor-charge) (2026-06-16): Explains what a summary conviction offence is, what a criminal record really costs, and why you should understand your options before pleading guilty. - ["I'll Just Pay the Ticket" — Why That Might Be the Most Expensive Thing You Do](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/paying-a-traffic-ticket) (2026-06-09): Shows why paying a traffic ticket is a guilty plea and how that conviction affects your demerit points, driving abstract, and insurance premiums. - [What Does a Paralegal Actually Do — and When Is One a Smarter Choice Than a Lawyer?](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/blog/what-does-a-paralegal-do) (2026-06-02): Describes the scope of paralegal practice in Ontario — tickets, minor charges, small claims, and LTB matters — and when hiring a paralegal is more practical than a lawyer. ## About - [About Kerlan McLean](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/about): Kerlan McLean is a licensed paralegal (Law Society of Ontario, 2008) and one of the first paralegals licensed in Ontario. He spent 13 years as a police officer before entering defence practice in 2002, and handles every file personally — drawing on a network of trusted associate paralegals across Ontario when geography or scheduling requires it. Practice areas: summary conviction criminal offences, traffic and Provincial Offences Act matters, Landlord and Tenant Board hearings, and Small Claims Court. ## Services - [Services](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/services): Four practice areas under one standard — Traffic & Provincial Offences (HTA/POA), Criminal Summary Offences, Small Claims Court (claims up to $50,000), and Residential Tenancies / Landlord and Tenant Board. Out-of-scope matters (indictable charges, complex civil litigation, family or estate work) are referred to a trusted network of Ontario lawyers. ## Contact - [Contact](https://www.pointdutytraffic.com/contact): Free, confidential, no-obligation consultation — about twenty minutes by phone with the principal to discuss the charge, realistic outcomes, and cost of defence. - Phone: 1-866-647-6468 - Email: info@pointdutytraffic.com - Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am–6:00pm ET; evenings and weekends by appointment. - Calls and form submissions are returned within one business day; urgent matters with a court date inside 48 hours should phone the office directly. ## Credentials - Licensed Paralegal, Law Society of Ontario (since 2008) - One of the first paralegals licensed in Ontario under formal LSO regulation - 13 years as a police officer prior to defence practice - Defence paralegal since 2002