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History of the POA courts

History of the POA courts. Is this really what I want to do?. The offences dealt with in the Provincial Offences Courts address the kinds of communities and the kinds of workplaces that we as a society value. Liquor Licence Act Offences. Highway Traffic Act.

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History of the POA courts

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  1. History of the POA courts

  2. Is this really what I want to do?

  3. The offences dealt with in the Provincial Offences Courts address the kinds of communities and the kinds of workplaces that we as a society value

  4. Liquor Licence Act Offences

  5. Highway Traffic Act Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act

  6. Including Ministry of Transportation PUSHROD SYSTEM Section 84.1 HTA

  7. Occupational Health and Safety

  8. Keeping Our Kids Safe Christophers’s Law Smoke Free Ontario Act

  9. Animal Welfare and Protection

  10. City By-laws Nuisance Laws, Building Code, Noxious Weeds

  11. In the Beginning . . . .

  12. “The enactment in Ontario of the Provincial Offences Act in 1979 was a landmark change in the way offences created under provincial statute were treated”. ~~The Honourable Gerald S. Lapkin, Senior Judge and Co-ordinator of Justices of the Peace (as he was then)

  13. R. v. Cotton Felts Inc., (1982) 2 C.C.C. (3d) 287 (O.C.A.) R. v. Wholesale Travel Group [1991] 3 S.C.R. 154 (S.C.C.) R. v. Bata Industries Ltd. 91992), 70 C.C.C.(3d) 394 (Ont. Prov. Div.) R. v. Inco Ltd., [2001] O.J. No. 4938 (Ont. S. C.) And the hits just keep coming!

  14. Bill 108 • Part X of the POA enacted with the passing of Bill 108 “Streamlining of Administration of Provincial Offences Act”, 1997 • s. 161.1 Provincial Offences Act • s. 162 (2) • s. 165 (5) and (8) • s. 167 clerks and prosecutors

  15. s. 168 The Attorney General still has an interest in any of the POA matters and may intervene

  16. Courts of Justice Actsection 76 (1) & (2) In matters that are assigned by law to the judiciary, registrars, court clerks, court reporters, interpreters and other court staff shall act at the direction of the chief justice of the court. 2006, c. 21, Sched. A, s. 14. Court personnel referred to in subsection (1) who are assigned to and present in a courtroom shall act at the direction of the presiding judge, justice of the peace, master or case management master while the court is in session. 2006, c. 21, Sched. A, s. 14; 2009, c. 33, Sched. 2, s. 20 (16).

  17. Creatures of the Code Regulation 200 Regulation 53 Regulation 721, 722, 723 Regulation 158 POA Parts IV and V

  18. Provincial Offences Courts are often the only experience that people will have with the courts Public confidence in the justice system & Dramatic impact of peoples lives

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