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LawFacts: Online Legal Advice from Legal Aid Ontario
LawFacts: Online Legal Advice from Legal Aid Ontario Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) recently launched a website entitled LawFacts which is designed to provide information about the criminal justice system to people in Ontario. (See the press release here.) It will not provide you with specific legal advice about your particular situation, but it does have [...]
Tags: Criminal Charges, Criminal Defence, Former Police Officer, Kingston, Law Student, Lawyer, Legal Aid, Ontario
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Familiy Matters Picked Up By Canadian Network
For those who follow my blog, you will already be aware of Family Matters, an online TV show featuring Justice Harvey Brownstone, a sitting Family Court Judge in Toronto, which I have promoted in the past. Although the show focuses primarily on Family Law, as opposed to Criminal Law (my area of interest), I still [...]
Tags: Criminal Law, Family Law, Family Matters, Kingston, Lawyer, Simon Borys
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Demerit Points for Bicycles and E-Bikes
Do demerit points accumulate on your licence for tickets involving bicycles or e-bikes? Simon Says: no! In a recent post entitled Demerit Points in Ontario I discussed the dreaded demerit point system and dispelled 4 myths surrounding it. I explained how demerit points accumulate, how you can avoid them, and how they affect your insurance. [...]
Tags: Criminal Defence, Demerit Points, Highway Traffic Act, Kingston, Lawyer, Ontario, Simon Borys, Traffic, Transportation
Posted in: Police Myths | 4 Comments »
Does a police officer ever have to give you a ticket?
Does a police officer every have to give you a ticket?
Tags: Collision, Criminal Defence, Kingston, Lawyer, Officer, Police, Ticket
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Simon Borys
Simon Borys is a former police officer, a law student at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and an aspiring criminal lawyer.
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