This practical guide assists defence counsel in defending a client charged with a drinking and driving offence in a logical and coherent fashion from the beginning to the end of the process. It provides sound, practical advice on all steps along the way, including how to handle a phone call from the police station, factual issues to note, novel defences, the relevant law and sentencing.
The 2012 edition has been updated to reflect all the legislative amendments since the last edition and incorporates all significant developments in the case law.
Alan D. Gold practices at Gold Professional Corporation, 20 Adelaide Street East, Suite 210, Toronto, M5C 2T6. His practice is restricted to criminal trial and appellate work, but otherwise covers the spectrum from sex offenses to white-collar crime, drinking and driving offences to homicides, including search and seizure issues and other Charter litigation. He has appeared as counsel before all levels of courts in Ontario, as well as in seven of the other provinces. A large number of the cases Mr. Gold has argued before the Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada are reported. Mr. Gold is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Criminal Litigation and was the first Chairman of the Criminal Litigation Specialty Committee for five years. In 1993 in Washington D.C. Mr. Gold was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was honoured in 1997 with the annual G. Arthur Martin Award for Contribution to Criminal Justice, awarded November 22nd, 1997, in Toronto. He is a past President of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Gold was elected as a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in May 2003 for a four year term.