What Duty Counsel Can Help With
Ontario duty counsel can help you with some of the initial steps of the whole process without delving too deeply into the technicalities. They offer:
What Duty Counsel Cannot Do
Although that initial assistance is helpful, it’s often not enough to secure a favourable outcome of an impaired driving charge. Duty counsel cannot provide you with long-term, thorough defence. They cannot:
DUI Duty Counsel
A DUI charge carries mandatory minimum penalties starting on a first offence as per Section 320.19 of the Criminal Code. Many cases also depend on a single piece of technical evidence like the breath or blood reading. They would need time to thoroughly examine the reading and the calibration log, or challenge how the sample was taken, and that time is not something duty counsel can provide.
If you need a defence built for your specific case, talk to a Brampton DUI lawyer as soon as you can. The earlier a lawyer looks at your file, the more options you have.