Professional Traffic Ticket Representation:

Question: What should I do if I’m facing a major traffic ticket in Ontario and I’m worried about demerit points, licence suspension, and higher insurance rates?

Answer: If you’re dealing with a major traffic ticket in Ontario, a paralegal at Pollock Paralegal can help you evaluate the evidence, identify defence strategy options, and prepare for court by questioning witnesses and addressing the paperwork and process details that can affect outcomes, including avoiding demerit point and licence suspension risk.   This can be especially important if you have a prior conviction within the last three years or your job requires a good driving record. To discuss your situation and potential next steps across Ontario, call (519) 694-0363 to book a consultation with Pollock Paralegal.

Providing Strategic Defence Advocacy

When major charges occur, either alone or alongside other charges, concerns for the likelihood of soaring insurance rates arises, and when combined with previous convictions or additional infractions, concern for possible licence suspension due to demerit point accumulation, plus severe fines, also arise. A comprehensive professional evaluation of the facts, the potential outcomes, and the available defence strategies, is highly recommended.

Protecting Against Significant Consequences

A major traffic offence conviction generally brings about heavy fines and surcharges as well as the likelihood of significantly higher insurance premiums lasting for at least three years. For drivers with prior offences, there is also a risk of licence suspension and other penalties.

Factors Tending to Aggravate Penalties

The affects of conviction for a major driving offence can be significantly further aggravated:

• When a driver was previously convicted within the past three years on another charge;
• When a driver is on the cusp of having accumulated too many demerit points and this latest major charge now puts the driver at risk of a licence suspension, among other penalties; and
• When a driver is required to maintain a good driving record as a condition of employment.

Conclusion

Traffic tickets of the major charges type pose serious consequences involving substantial fines plus victim surcharges as well as demerit points that may be the straw that breaks the camel's back resulting in a license suspension.  Additionally, a major charge may result in substantially increased insurance rates including the potential for loss of access to standard insurance market and substitute placement into the highly priced Facility Association.

Accordingly, when charged with a major traffic ticket offence, hiring a professional who knows how to question witnesses, especially which questions to ask and which questions to avoid, and who knows the law, knows the paperwork processes and courtroom procedures, and knows how to make judicially persuasive arguments on the applicable legal principles, is highly important.