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 ActCompulsory Automobile Insurance Act

Including Ministry of TransportationPUSHROD SYSTEMSection 84.1 HTA

Occupational Health and Safety

Keeping Our Kids SafeChristophers’s Law

Smoke Free Ontario Act

Animal Welfare and Protection

City By-lawsNuisance Laws, Building Code, Noxious

Weeds

In the Beginning . . . .

“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)

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING!

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.)

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

s. 168

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

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).

Creatures of the Code

Regulation 200Regulation 53Regulation 721, 722, 723

Regulation 158POA Parts IV and V

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