Shore & Johnston, Barristers-at-Law

Shore & Johnston, Barristers-at-Law is an Ottawa criminal defence firm handling bail, driving, drug, domestic, sexual and homicide charges.

The firm has helped clients through criminal charges in Ontario for fifty years under the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, and has also acted in regulatory prosecutions ranging from the Ontario Highway Traffic Act to the Canadian Lobbying Act. Its lawyers appear at bail hearings, on guilty pleas and sentencing, in judge-alone and jury trials, and on appeal. Michael Johnston is among its lawyers, and the practice addresses Charter rights, including the presumption of innocence.