Traffic Ticket Defense

Fighting Traffic Tickets in Ontario

We defend the full range of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) charges in the Greater Toronto Area: speeding, careless driving, stunt driving, driving while under suspension, handheld device (distracted driving) charges, disobeying signs or signals, following too closely, failing to remain, and no-insurance charges under the Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act.

Traffic ticket defence in Ontario is core paralegal work, and our licensed paralegals appear regularly in provincial offences courts across the region — including Toronto, Markham, Richmond Hill, Newmarket, Oshawa, and Brampton. See our courthouses page for locations. We serve clients in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean.

Simply paying a ticket is a guilty plea: the conviction goes on your driving record, demerit points may follow, and your insurer can treat it as a rating factor for years. In many cases the charge can be fought, reduced, or resolved in a way that protects your record.

What an Ontario Traffic Charge Can Cost You

Demerit points are added to your licence on conviction — for example, 3 points for speeding 16–29 km/h over the limit, 4 points for 30–49 km/h over, and 6 points for 50 km/h or more over. Careless driving carries 6 points, and failing to remain at the scene of a collision carries 7. A fully licensed driver faces a suspension at 15 points, and novice (G1/G2) drivers face suspension at much lower thresholds.

How the charge is laid matters. Most tickets are Part I certificates of offence with a set fine. More serious allegations — such as stunt driving or careless driving causing bodily harm — proceed by Part III summons, where there is no set fine, penalties are open-ended, and a court appearance is required.

Stunt driving (including driving 40 km/h or more over the limit on roads under 80 km/h, or 50 km/h or more over elsewhere) triggers an immediate 30-day roadside licence suspension and a 14-day vehicle impoundment before you ever see a courtroom, with substantial fines and a possible further suspension on conviction.

Convictions generally stay on your driving record for three years and are visible to your insurer. Even a single conviction can affect your premium, and accumulating convictions can lead to non-renewal or high-risk insurance. Fighting the charge — or negotiating it down to a lesser offence — is often far cheaper than the long-term insurance cost of simply paying.