Speeding Ticket

[greensunshine]

I was caught doing 142 in a 100 zone. It is my first ticket and I dont really know what to do. My main concern is the demerit points. Anyone know of any good legal ticket fighters? Or should i fight it myself? What's my best bet? :mad:

[UncleSteve]

I was caught doing 142 in a 100 zone. It is my first ticket and I dont really know what to do. My main concern is the demerit points. Anyone know of any good legal ticket fighters? Or should i fight it myself? What's my best bet? :mad:

Use the search function in this forum. There are several excellent threads on this topic which cover all aspects of fighting tickets.

[firechkn]

Demerit points doesn't matter in regards to insurance. All they care about is convictions. I would fight the ticket and plea to a lesser charge. If you are lucky and this is your first offense, most insurance companies will have forgiveness.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[liorsyncro]

Fight the ticket in court and get it reduced. The cop may also not show up at all, in that case the charge will be thrown out altogether. Do NOT even bother with these paralegal firms to represent you in court. In my personal opinion they are pure scam and I've discussed why and the way they work in previous discussions. Do your own homework.

[camber]

Points and ex-coppers are a waster of time. They usually just try to break a deal and take your cash.

The only Paralegal firm in the GTA, that I know that fights to win, is Redline.

http://charged.ca/

Like other mentioned, convictions count for insurance and not demerit points. If you're going to fight the ticket and pay a paralegal, make sure you want to fight to win. Otherwise, you'll have to pay the paralegal, a reduce ticket amount and possible get dinged by your insurance because of a conviction.

Best of luck!

[ticketcombat]

Anyone know of any good legal ticket fighters? Or should i fight it myself? What's my best bet? :mad:
You can do both. You can retain a paralegal at any point in the process but you'll be much farther ahead by doing the following:

request a trial (challenging the officer's evidence)
request disclosure
request the earliest possible trial date


If you decide to hire someone, they can take over from there. The point is with three simple form letters you've laid the ground work for several different ways to fight the ticket:

improper disclosure
unreasonable delay
challenges to the functioning of the speed measuring device
challenges to disclosure of the officer's training
strengthen your bargaining position to reduce the charge


Most paralegals won't bother doing any of the above but will simply show up at trial and negotiate a minimally lower charge. You want more than that: no conviction!

[johnboy]

Points and ex-coppers are a waster of time. They usually just try to break a deal and take your cash.

The only Paralegal firm in the GTA, that I know that fights to win, is Redline.

http://charged.ca/

Like other mentioned, convictions count for insurance and not demerit points. If you're going to fight the ticket and pay a paralegal, make sure you want to fight to win. Otherwise, you'll have to pay the paralegal, a reduce ticket amount and possible get dinged by your insurance because of a conviction.

Best of luck!


+1

Screw those two places. They did nothing for me. As you said, they just make a deal and take my cash (never even gotten a court date). Still made over $100 since they had to pay my ticket. All I got was a 1 point deduction so from 3 to 2.

Smaller indepedents are much better, IMO. Mostly word of mouth.

[ticketcombat]

x-Copper went bankrupt (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/06/02/x-copper.html)