Background on Dan Pattullo

Dan is a licensed Paralegal and a retired Federal Law Enforcement officer with extensive experience in traffic enforcement as well as a Court Liaison officer within both the Federal and Provincial court systems. Dan was the Court Agent for X-Copper Legal Services for the Ottawa Courts and surrounding area for four (4) years prior to establishing Daniel Pattullo Paralegal Services...

Why Choose A Paralegal?

There  are numerous reasons to choose a paralegal over a lawyer. One of the main reason(s) would be the cost of hiring a lawyer, with the majority of lawyers charging hourly rates which can escalate rather rapidly or by contingency rates that are only an estimate of how much their services could cost and will only increase (and never decrease) depending on the issues. There's also the lawyers administration staff and location(s) of office(s) that are all cost factors in the final bill for their clients or potential clients. As most paralegal are one or two persons operations and therefore the cost of conducting business is lower. The majority of paralegal will operate on a flat rate charge with the total cost being upfront. If there are additional charges the paralegal will be  responsible for the cost overrun. Another reason for choosing a paralegal over a lawyer is the relationship between clients and their legal representative. The majority of lawyers carry a large volume of working caseloads and therefore tend not to respond to their client(s) inquiries a to the status of their situation. Generally, lawyers will not respond personally to your inquiry but will have someone else contact you. You will be billed for this contact at half the rate of the lawyer fees for this service and still haven't had contact with your legal representative. As stated earlier, most paralegal work as one(1) or two (2) persons operations and therefore when contacting them, you will converse with your legal representative, who will receive your information first hand and not second hand. The cost of talking with most paralegal is already included in your costs.

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  • Traffic Tickets
  • Careless Driving
  • Drive while suspended
  • No insurance
  • Appeals
  • Traffic accidents
  • Landlord and Tenants Act
  • WSIB
  • Commissioner of Oaths for the province of Ontario
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Traffic Violations

Charged by your local police department with a traffic ticket? Believe it or not,there are  thousands of Ottawa and Eastern Ontario motorist charged each and every day. The amount of tickets go up even more on statutory hoildays as the local, provincial and federal police department ramp up their traffic enforcemnt on these hoildays. In Ottawa and Eastern Ontario last year the local police detachments issued over 180.000 traffic tickets an incease over last year's total of 130,000.

All traffic violations cost Ontarians higher taxes for policing services, court services and higher insurance premiums. The Provincial and local Municipalities pass on the cost of policing services to the taxpayer for increases in putting more police officers in routine traffic patrols, where their expertise in other areas of criminal matters are under utilized. 

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Speeding Tickets

Speeding tickets are very costly to the majority of Ottawa and Eastern Ontario's drivers. They are not only costly in the immediate terms of the fines that are associated with the speed but you will take a hit in the pocket book when your insurance renewal is due. The insurance companies every year pay a nominal fee to the Ministry of Transport for access to your driving history, so as to inquire as to wherher you have been a good driver or a bad one. Most insurancce companies conduct a check of your driving history every two years. If there are any convictions, they will use the conviction for the next three (3) years to justify their fees to you the customer. 

The definition of speeding is defined as travelling at a rate of speed greater than the posted speed limit on highways, roadways and streets as defined in the Highway Traffic Act (HTA). Speeding under the HTA is a regulatory offence and should not be considered a criminal offence. However depending on the cicumstances speeeding can lead to a more serious charges under the Criminla Code of Canada. With charges such as Dangeroues and/or criminal negligence driving.

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