Daniel Criminal Law

Daniel Freudman is a barrister and solicitor with offices located in both midtown and downtown Toronto. He provides professional legal services to clients within the GTA and across Ontario, including Brampton, Scarborough, Oshawa, Newmarket, Milton, Orangeville and Hamilton.

Daniel rigorously defends persons charged with a wide array of offences under the Criminal Code of Canada (CCC), Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), Highway Traffic Act (HTA) and other provincial and federal legislation.Daniel also represents individuals and small businesses involved in legal disputes, litigating actions in the Superior Court and Small Claims Court across the province.

Note: The basic definition of Assault, as stipulated in section 265, applies to all of the subcategories of Assault. There are often defences which arise on the facts of Assault charges, such as self-defence, consent or if the incident occurred by accident.

Toronto assault lawyer Daniel Freudman will examine your case in detail to determine any potential defences, and fervently argue those which apply in order to ensure you receive the best representation at trial.Occurs when, in committing an assault, the person carries, uses or threatens to use a weapon or an imitation thereof.

Police often have the option of releasing you shortly after your arrest. However, if they do not do so, then you will be brought before the Ontario Court of Justice for a bail hearing within 24 or as soon as otherwise possible. A bail hearing is the procedure where a judge or justice determines whether you should be released on bail or remain in custody awaiting your trial.

You cannot be convicted of Failure to Attend Court if you have a lawful excuse for failing to appear. However, as you, and not the prosecutor, bear the burden of proving an excuse that is lawful in the eyes of the law, legal representation is imperative to effectively argue such a defence.

A person commits the offence of Failure to Comply when he or she is at large on an undertaking or recognizance and is bound to comply with a condition of that undertaking or recognizance and fails to do so.You cannot be convicted of Failure to Comply if you have a lawful excuse for breaching the relevant condition(s) of the recognizance or undertaking.

Drug charges mostly arise from four offences set out in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA): Possession, Trafficking (and/or possession for the purpose of trafficking), Importing & Exporting, and Production of controlled substances (i.e. Under subsection 4(1) of the CDSA, except as authorized under the regulations, no person shall possess a substance included in Schedule I, II or III.