Ontario Court of Justice, Provincial Offences Office

Been here a few times to he honest. Staff are informative and helpful under these unfortunate circumstances…
Parking is a pain, and if you don’t know how long yoy will he staying it is best to pay for additional time.

I went in there today to try and get my disclosure for an upcoming trial. When I asked at the Information Desk where to go they told me downstairs at the «Prosecutor’s Office.»
I got downstairs and see there’s a sign for the Prosecutor’s Office right in front of me. I walked in and saw a lady standing at the counter and no one behind it. She had already rang the bell she said but I rang it again. After another 5 minutes of waiting an employee comes moseying up to the desk and tells me that I need to go to the «Municipal Prosecutor’s Office» and I was actually in the «Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.»
She blamed the lady in the Info Booth for never being clear when she tells people where to go for their traffic tickets’ disclosure. I blame them both because this lady clearly knows this happens regularly and can’t be bothered to either sit at her desk or leave a sign to help people steered the wrong way by the Info Desk upstairs. As well, I blame the Ontario & Toronto governments for not bothering to put up proper signage if this is a regular occurrence (as it seems to be).
I try to avoid being here as much as possible because if I’m here it means I have done something wrong haha.

So today I went again for my First Attendance (see my first review for how and why). This isn’t a ‘court date’ and there was no trial.
I received the notice only after less than 2 weeks since my first visit. They told me to be there at 10:30am.
Due to a malfunctioning alarm/​blackberry, I was late, around 10:35.
You meet the prosecutor in a small room at the end of the hall on the 2^nd floor. Everyone there is for 10:30. She was calling out names, I suspect in alphabetical order, and I had already been called.
Luckily, she went through the names a 2^nd time.
When called in, she states that I was in there for a speeding ticket. She asks me if I want to plead guilty, even at a reduced charge, that it will be on my record and I cannot plead not guilty anymore.
She said that we will plead for a lesser charge, and she’ll put my speeding to be only 10 over the limit, not 20.
Then she told me to wait at the other side of the hall. This whole thing from stepping in the room took less than a minute.
You wait, until called in, to the Intake Office.
She will call you in by name again. Here, you meet with a Judge.
He asks you what do you plead? Guilty.
Do you understand all the consequences of pleading guilty? Yes.
I will amend your certificate. Do you have anything you want to say?
(apparently whatever I said, had no bearing between me and the guy before me, however, one girl before me — the door was open — mentioned she was unemployed and it seemed like he reduced the fine, and allowed her 60 days to pay it)
Then that was it! My fine from $ 115 and 3 demerit points, go reduced to $ 30 and no demerit points, however it’s still on my record.
They are sneaky because $ 30 really $ 45 ($ 5 admin fee, and some $ 10 surcharge) .
You go back downstairs and wait in Priority with the other people to pay at the kiosks! Done.
about 30 mins.
Note: I also saw an excopper or someone that comes on your behalf to fight traffic tickets. He definitely wasn’t a civilian, per say. I’m thinking these are the people from that company that will fight your ticket for you for $ 10. They come through this process, especially for a simple one, and it’s something that not many people know about. I mean, the only thing you’re really saving is the time off work. I’m just saying.