How To Fight a Speeding Ticket - Your Options

You have 3 options to fight your speeding ticket listed on the back of the ticket

Plead Guilty with an Explanation - Never advisable.
If you plead guilty with an explanation you have to go to the court and see the Justice of the Peace. The Justice of the Peace will listen to your explanation regarding your speeding ticket. After listening to your explanation ALL the Justice of the Peace is allow to do is lower the fine.

The Justice can not withdraw, dismiss or cancel the ticket or remove the demerit points from the ticket. If you plead guilty with an explanation a conviction and any demerit points will go on your driving record for 3 years, and this information is available to your insurance company.
Meet the Prosecutor to discuss your case - Never advisable.
When you appear at the court house many of the clerks will offer to allow you to meet with the prosecutor to "Avoid a Contested Trial", offering to let you try to come to a "resolution" with the prosecutor without going to traffic court for a trial.

It is highly improper and against the law for a clerk at court to give or offer legal advice. There maybe many issues that can cancel your ticket and a clerk is not qualified to advise you. If you do meet with the prosecutor you lose any opportunity to win your case from very simple reasons to complicated legal arguments made by a licenced professional. For example for every court case the officer has to appear in court. If the officer does not appear there is a very good chance your ticket will be dismissed, usually any resolution available at a meeting with the prosecutor or "first attendance meeting" is available on a trial date.

Meetings with the prosecutor, and "first attendance" was originally set up for the person who forgot their drivers licence or insurance and was stopped by the police. In order to save court time, the court administration set up these meetings to cancel these tickets. After seeing what a success they were the administration started expanding the meetings to include many other tickets. Thereby saving costs to the system, e.g. not having to pay for police officers to attend court, and ensuring that the defendant was convicted of something, and allowing the municipality to collect the fines.
Fight the Speeding Ticket - Always advisable
Fighting the speeding ticket or any traffic ticket is the best way to ensure that you have the best chance to kept your driving record clear of the offence. When you fight the speeding ticket the prosecution is has the obligation to prove the case against your before you have to defend yourself. If the police or prosecution cannot prove the case for any reason the speeding ticket can be dismissed keeping your driving record clear and your insurance rates low.

If you fight the speeding ticket yourself you always have a chance to win the case. If you hire a legal professional from OTT Legal Services your chances of winning your case or having a favorable result go up dramatically, as our licensed Paralegals, licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada know all the legal technicalities to win your speeding ticket.

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