Professional Traffic Ticket Representation:

Question: How can a traffic ticket lawyer help me fight a major traffic offence in Ontario and reduce risks like demerit points, licence suspension, and higher insurance rates?

Answer: Woodcock Legal Services provides strategic defence advocacy for people facing major traffic charges in Ontario, where convictions can bring substantial fines and victim surcharges, demerit points that may trigger licence suspension, and significantly higher insurance rates for about three years, with penalties often aggravated by prior convictions in the past three years, near-misses for demerit accumulation, or employment conditions requiring a good driving record.  A professional legal review can map out consequence scenarios, challenge evidence by knowing which witness questions to ask or avoid, handle paperwork and courtroom process, and make judicially persuasive arguments based on the applicable law.  If you are facing a major charge, call (613) 334-6721 to get help now from Woodcock Legal Services through a professional traffic-ticket defence process.

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Providing Strategic Defence Advocacy

Major charges, whether individually or when combined with other minor or other major offences, can lead to significantly higher insurance premiums. When paired with other charges or past convictions, there is also the risk of licence suspension due to an accumulation of demerit points, along with hefty fines. A thorough professional assessment of the potential consequences, the relevant facts and the applicable defence theories, is essential when dealing with a major driving offence charge.

Protecting Against Significant Consequences

When convicted of a major traffic violation, a driver usually faces steep fines and surcharges, along with the probability of increased insurance rates for the next three years. Depending upon the past driving record, there is also the possibility of a licence suspension and other consequences.

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.