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Speeding tickets issued by the police have to be properly written.

The legal term is that the ticket has to be “proper on its face” meaning no “fatal errors”.

Fatal errors on Speeding Tickets

Fatal Errors are mistakes that will get the ticket cancelled. Fatal errors or mistakes, are mistakes on the speeding ticket that are not fixable by the prosecution. For example the officer might not have put his name on the ticket , or the jurisdiction (city or town where the speeding ticket occurred) is missing from the ticket, or the date is missing. These are fatal mistakes that will get the ticket canceled.

Minor Mistakes on Speeding Tickets

Most minor mistakes on speeding tickets are allowed to be corrected at court by the prosecutor. 

For example there maybe a mistake in the spelling of your name or the year of the car, these mistakes are minor can be corrected by the prosecutor at court. They are not things that will get the speeding ticket canceled.

Many mistakes are not even crucial to the charge and are not required on the speeding ticket to obtain a conviction by the police. 

For example although the licence plate number of your car may be wrong on the speeding ticket, all the officer has to say is that he saw the driver operating a "motor vehicle".  For the officer to obtain a conviction he doesn't have to describe the vehicle at all, all the officer has to tell the Justice of the Peace is that they saw you driving a "motor vehicle".

The licence plate number or the year of the vehicle does not have to be entered into evidence to obtain a conviction for speeding.

Going To Traffic Court

When you go to court unless you know what the fatal errors are, how will you know how to point them out to the Justice?

If you don't know what things have to be on the speeding ticket your not really qualified to represent yourself or anyone else in court, and you risk being unnecessarily convicted.

As with any traffic ticket, if you want to win your case its important to have a trained professional like the former police officers and licenced paralegals of OTT Legal Services have a look at your speeding ticket, examine it for errors to avoid being unnecessarily convicted.

It's always a free call you phone us at 1-888-668-8946 to speak to someone about your ticket, answer any questions you have, and to have someone properly review your case.

With any speeding ticket there are three copies of the ticket;

To be properly represented in court your licence representative from OTT Legal will examine each copy of the ticket for errors or discrepancies.

Although your copy of the speeding ticket many appear to be written properly, the court's copy of the ticket has to have additional information put on it to be "properly before the court". If something is missing, the speeding ticket should be "quashed" or canceled.

As the original ticket is sent to the court by the officer, the only time someone can view the original ticket is on the trial date.

There are at least seven items that need to be checked on the original speeding ticket before any conviction is registered by the court. 

Unless the defendant/motorist has the training, knowledge and experience to know what to check for, and how to make the proper motions, and legal arguments to the court they risk being needlessly convicted of the offence.

Justice of the Peace

Before entering a conviction for speeding the Justice of the Peace is required to examine the certificate (the court's copy of the speeding ticket) for fatal errors.

If the Justice of the Peace finds a fatal error on the ticket they should “Quash the Certificate", cancel the ticket .

If the Justice of the Peace misses or isn't made aware of the fatal error, a conviction may be registered for the speeding ticket. The licenced paralegals from OTT Legal Services will be able to identify any fatal errors on your speeding ticket. and if need be, be able point them out to the Justice of the Peace allowing for the case to be dismissed.

OTT Legal Services has successfully won thousands of speeding tickets, and we are the best company to win your court case and the leader in Speeding Ticket defense in Ontario.

Call OTT Legal at 1-888-668-8946 to discuss your ticket in confidence.

On May 1st, 2007, The Law Society of Upper Canada became responsible for regulating the paralegal profession including all speeding ticket companies, and anyone who represents others to fight speeding tickets in Ontario, through the Law Society Act brought about by Bill 14.  This means that all Ontario speeding ticket companies providing legal services require a license. Errors and Omissions insurance is now a requirement to run a speeding ticket company and to a fight speeding ticket or speeding tickets. OTT is fully licenced and insured to represent your traffic ticket and speeding ticket charge.

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