Calvin Barry is one of Toronto’s most popular criminal lawyers and is frequently quoted in the Toronto Star and Toronto media. He has successfully dismissed and won many impaired driving cases for clients in the GTA and throughout Ontario. He has fully dismissed impaired driving & Over 80 charges at trial or reduced these types of charges down to a traffic ticket for a very large percentage of his clients.
Calvin Barry was a former Toronto Crown Prosecutor and has worked both sides of the law. This experience as a crown prosecutor gives him insight and experience on how to defend impaired driving charges in Ontario . He is well known throughout Toronto courts and understands impaired driving cases from the prosecutors point of view. Working both sides of the law gives Mr. Barry the legal experience to know which defences give his impaired driving clients the best chance to win their cases.
Calvin Barry has over 20 years of experience as a crown prosecutor and criminal lawyer and handles over 150 impaired driving cases/year! Only a small handful of criminal lawyers have this much experience handling impaired driving cases. This wealth of experience is one of the reasons for his high success rate and popularity as one of Toronto’s most popular criminal lawyers. He has been included in over 100 Toronto Star articles and he is regularly quoted by Toronto media.
Calvin Barry has a TEAM of criminal lawyers, toxicologists, legal assistants and paralegals that work together to have the best chance of dismissing (winning) your case or reducing the impaired driving charge down to a traffic ticket! TEAM stands for “Together Everyone Acheives More” and one of the reasons for his success in defending impaired driving cases is due to his team.
Calvin Barry doesn’t take the easy way out! Many other paralegals or inexperienced lawyers will NOT take your case to trial! Beware of paralegals and other ex police traffic ticket companies that do not have the experience, education, qualifications that impaired driving lawyers have. You need a criminal lawyer that handles a minimum of 100 impaired driving per year and is fully prepared to take your case to trial and fight to win! We use every possible defence that we think will work to completely dismiss your charge. We encourage you to ask other firms how many impaired driving cases they actually take to trial as well as how many impaired driving cases they handle in any given year.
Calvin Barry is one of Toronto’s best known defence lawyers for a reason. He knows all of the possible defences you can use in your particular case and which ones will likely be successful in winning your impaired driving case. In fact Calvin Barry has restricted his entire legal practice to criminal defence matters which means he will not practice in other disciplies of law such as personal injury, real estate, corporate, etc. From your initial free meeting, Calvin Barry will look at your case, review what happened on the day you were charged with impaired driving and explain all of the possible defences that may be used to win your case.
Calvin Barry has successfully defended and won impaired driving cases for clients at many different courts all throughout Ontario. Although the majority of his cases are in the GTA, he can defend cases as far to the west as Sarnia/London, as far east as Ottawa, and can handle all cases in the north including Barrie, North Bay, Muskoka, or even as far as Thunder Bay which is his hometown.
Calvin Barry’s office is located in Downtown Toronto beside the famous St. Lawrence Market. It is easily accessible by public transit. The closest subway station is King or Union Station on the TTC. Our address is 113 Front Street East Toronto, ON M5A 4S5.
You call also call 1 866 WE WIN 01 for a free quote and to setup a free impaired driving consultation!




