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Police are allowed to make minor changes to tickets after issuance - C of A ruling

The region of York took these cases to the C of A, so they could have a precedent set. Most JP's wouldn't consider these minor errors as "fatal flaws", but some "may". Now they no longer have that option as a precedent has been set. I see it primarily as "housekeeping" type of exercise

No doubt, but the door is now open for the crown/police to push the limits of what might be considered "minor". The old saying of "give them an inch..." applies here. True, many motorists are boneheads, but the crown/police have repeatedly demonstrated that bullying citizens when it suits their (sometimes questionable) needs is wholly acceptable.
 
No doubt, but the door is now open for the crown/police to push the limits of what might be considered "minor". The old saying of "give them an inch..." applies here. True, many motorists are boneheads, but the crown/police have repeatedly demonstrated that bullying citizens when it suits their (sometimes questionable) needs is wholly acceptable.

As stated earlier, the appeal was initiated by York Region in order to get a definitive ruling regarding what is and is not acceptable in terms or amending tickets.
It sounds to me that you want a ruling that is "right" as opposed to what is "legal".
What's legal is more or less consistent with the law as it already exists.
What's right changes from person to person.
 
Actually they appealed twice.
Provincial Offences Act appeals are heard by a Provincial Court judge.
If it went to the Court of Appeals, the Prov. Court judge's ruling had to be appealed as well.

No, the persons convicted appealed ONCE. it was the Region of York, that brought it to the Court of Appeals, not the defendants.
 
No doubt, but the door is now open for the crown/police to push the limits of what might be considered "minor". The old saying of "give them an inch..." applies here. True, many motorists are boneheads, but the crown/police have repeatedly demonstrated that bullying citizens when it suits their (sometimes questionable) needs is wholly acceptable.

If the crown or police "push" the limits, then that is another story, the defendant would have to as did these defendants, get a court ruling on those circumstances and test the limits. That is how the justice system, and the law evolves. Just as it used to be acceptable to stop a person for no apparent reason and demand they submit to a breath test. The limits were tested and the law evolved. That is how we came to have ride spot checks etc. Again, this was neither the crown nor the police who sought this ruling it was the Region of York.
 

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