This edition provides a comprehensive guide to the Provincial
Offences Act, Regulations and related Rules, with key cases cited under the
relevant sections and cross-references to related statutes and regulations that
create and govern the most commonly charged provincial offences, including:
- Children’s Law Reform Act
- Dangerous Goods Transportation Act
- Dog Owners’ Liability Act and Pit Bull Controls
Regulation
- Evidence Act and Regulations
- Family Law Act; Family Law Rules
- Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act
- Highway Traffic Act and Regulations
- Liquor License Act and Licenses to Sell Liquor
Regulation
- Mental Health Act
- Motorized Snow Vehicles Act and Regulations
- Municipal Act, 2001
- Off-Road Vehicles Act
- Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
- Provincial Parks Act
- Public Vehicles Act and Regulations
- Retail Business Holidays Act
- Safe Streets Act, 1999
- Ticket Speculation Act
- Trespass to Property Act
- Truck Transportation Act and Regulations.
The Paralegal Rules of Conduct governing paralegal
practitioners were approved at the March, 2007 convocation of the Law Society
of Upper Canada:
- rule 3.01(1). new responsibilities of ethical behaviour on
paralegal practitioners, including the required standard of a “competent
paralegal”
- rule 2.01 which imposes a requirement of integrity and
civility on paralegals in connection with the provision of legal services which
are made available to the public
- rule 3.02(1) A paralegal is to be “honest and
candid” when advising clients and is expected to treat tribunals and other
licensees with “candour, fairness, courtesy and respect.”
- (rule 4.01(1)). rule 6.01(1), paralegals are to
“encourage public respect for, and try to improve, the administration of
justice”
- rule 6.01(2) paralegals are to “take care not to weaken
or destroy public confidence in legal institutions or authorities by making
irresponsible allegations or comments”
More than 100 cases have been added to update the case law
throughout this edition, including jurisprudence on the new rules:
- Obligation on paralegal to inform clients - Hill v. Toronto
(City)
- Constitutional challenge to the Law Society’s authority
to regulate non-lawyers - R. v. Toutissani
- A failure to bring a motion for a directed verdict - R. v.
Herzog
- The use of a pre-sentence report as provided under s.56(1) of
the Provincial Offences Act - R. v. Kang
This edition of the Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences
Act sets out the revised statute and regulations as amended to Votes and
Proceedings No. 57 (June 11, 2008) and to Ontario Gazette Volume 141:23 (June
7, 2008).
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