before you go down the 11b route, just make sure the costs of filing (printing, binding, faxing) does not cost more than $30. binding two books alone is going to be $10, and it's going to cost a small forest to print those pages; if you have to pay to fax, it's going to be a fortune to get all those pages to the Attorney General of Canada in Ottawa; you may also have to pay a commissioner of oath to affirm some of your things
lets not forget the gas/parking/bus/taxi money involved into filing them as well... and this is all prior to your trial date
http://www.ticketcombat.com/parking/R_v_Cassimatis.pdf
if you go to trial, the prosecutor will offer you 50% or more off the fine; you could get further reduced if you show the justice of peace you have financial difficulties when you plead guilty - maybe get a suspended sentence.
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from experience, most of the private security guards who act as MLEOs when they write tickets; these guys are trained to write atleast the backside of the ticket worth of notes about the vehicle and what happened; depending on the jurisdiction when they file the ticket, they also file their notes as well.
the actual 311 MLEO guys just print out tickets for people parked on the streets, and in court they read w/e is written on the face of the ticket; but if it's a special situation, they will take notes especially if they're towing the vehicle
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as for the pictures, this is some great advice from another forum (OHTA.ca)
These are some general guidelines for submitting photographs in court.
- Photographer must be present in the courtroom
- Photograph usually requires a time/date stamp
- Originals must be available to the court (if digital, "raw" format is used, plus a CD with the originals and the memory card)
- Photographs cannot be printed off your home computer, they must be printed by a retailer or professional photo store
- Have 3 copies of each photo, one for JP, prosecution and yourself
- Receipt from said retailer/photo store indicating date of printing or purchase must be brought to court
You cannot take a digital photograph, print it off at home and show up at court and expect that it will be accepted as evidence. That can be easily doctored with a photoshop program, and even if you swear up and down that you did not alter the photo's contents, any half-decent Prosecutor will get it excluded as unreliable.
In some cases, a higher standard is required for the photos to be accepted. If the photo is of a collision, for example, the photographer will usually have to be trained in the use of a camera.
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i'm curious though, what exactly was the infraction for a $60 fine? and how do you think your pictures will help?
how i'm picturing this, "car parks in the handicap space, moves his car to a regular space and takes a picture".
