Ian J. Collins

About Ian J. Collins

Ian J. Collins is a solo trial lawyer based in Toronto, with a practice restricted to defending driving related and drug charges: impaired driving and DUI, drive over 80 mg, fail to remain, dangerous driving, stunt driving, careless driving, and drug offences. Collins holds an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and articled for the Attorney General of Ontario before building a trial practice that now spans more than 25 years. The firm conducts trials at every level of court in Ontario and appears regularly across the Greater Toronto Area, as well as in Kitchener, Cambridge, London, and Hamilton.

The office is in the Manulife Centre at 44 Charles Street West, at Bay and Bloor. In one case that drew news coverage, a judge found that Peel Regional Police had conducted an unlawful strip search of a client during an impaired driving investigation and excluded the resulting breathalyzer evidence; the client was acquitted, as the Toronto Star reported in 2011. The firm also keeps a blog that walks the public through traffic and driving law topics such as careless driving charges and what happens after refusing a breathalyzer.