Hamilton runs its criminal courts out of the John Sopinka Courthouse at 45 Main Street East. If you have been charged with an offence anywhere in the city, from Dundas in the west to Stoney Creek in the east, that is the building named on your paperwork. Two other courthouses sit on the same street and confuse people constantly. One of them handles family matters and takes no criminal work at all. The other is a municipal ticket court run by the City. This page walks through the three buildings first, then through the Hamilton court week, because in this city the day you are told to attend depends on the first letter of your surname.
Three courthouses on Main Street and what happens in each
Main Street carries three separate justice functions in downtown Hamilton, and they are not interchangeable. Getting the wrong one costs you a morning and, if you miss a real appearance, can cost you a lot more than that.
The John Sopinka Courthouse at 45 Main Street East, postal code L8N 2B7, is the criminal building. The Ministry of the Attorney General lists eight functions there: civil, criminal, criminal youth, the Crown Attorney office, divisional, enforcement, the Victim and Witness Assistance Program, and small claims. The general court office number is 905-645-5252. Every adult criminal charge laid in Hamilton starts here.
The Hamilton Courthouse at 55 Main Street West, postal code L8P 1H4, is a different building on the other side of the downtown core. Its published list of court types is short: a Crown Attorney office, family, and the Victim and Witness Assistance Program. The family line is 905-645-6250. There is no criminal listing for that address. If your matter is a family proceeding rather than a charge, our family law practice covers that side of the work, and it is worth knowing early which of the two buildings your file actually lives in.
The third address, 50 Main Street East, is the City of Hamilton provincial offences court. It is municipal, not federal or provincial criminal. Speeding tickets and by-law charges go there. Criminal Code charges never do. The last section of this page deals with that building in detail, because the confusion between a ticket and a charge is one of the most common reasons people call a defence lawyer in a panic over something that is not a criminal matter at all.
One caution before you rely on any address you find online. The Ontario Court of Justice publishes its own Hamilton location page giving the address as 55 Main Street East with the postal code L8P 1H4 and the phone number 905-645-6250. On the Ministry of the Attorney General court locations site, that exact postal code and that exact phone number both belong to 55 Main Street West. The two official sources disagree on east versus west for the same building. Go by the address printed on your own release documents or summons, and if it is unclear, call the court office before you travel. Our general criminal defence practice covers the whole Greater Toronto and Hamilton area, and confirming the correct building is the first thing we do on a new Hamilton file.
Inside 45 Main Street East, the John Sopinka building
The court offices at 45 Main Street East are open Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Counter service is narrower than that. The counters run 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and again from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. People turn up at noon expecting to file something and find the wicket closed. Plan around those two windows.
The Crown Attorney office for Hamilton sits at 905-645-5262. The Ministry lists VirtualCrownHamilton@ontario.ca as the contact address for that office, and the Ontario Court of Justice separately publishes Eservice.Hamilton.Crowns@ontario.ca for provincial Crown service. Federal matters are handled by a different prosecution service entirely, which is why there is a separate Hamilton contact for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada at hamilton.disclosure@bellnet.ca and 289-426-5803. The Court asks that you leave your name and your court date when you call that line.
The Victim and Witness Assistance Program at this courthouse runs on 905-645-5272. If you are an accused person, that office is not yours to call. It exists for complainants and witnesses, and contacting it directly while you are subject to a no-contact condition is a fast way to pick up a second charge.
Duty counsel at Hamilton can be reached at 905-528-0387, extension 12. Duty counsel are Legal Aid Ontario lawyers who assist people who do not have their own lawyer. They can speak to bail, adjournments and some resolutions. What they generally cannot do is run your trial or carry your file from start to finish. If you are being held and need a hearing quickly, the practical mechanics of that process are set out on our page about bail and bail hearings in Canada.
French language services are available at this location both over the phone and at the counter. The courthouse also has a designated accessibility coordinator reachable at 905-645-5301 for disability accommodations, and the Ministry asks that you make the request as early as possible with the court address, the file number, the date and time of the proceeding, and the type of accommodation needed. Payment at the counter can be made by Visa or Mastercard, Interac debit, cash, cheque or money order.
Which surname gets called on which day in courtroom 204
This is the part of Hamilton practice that surprises people who have dealt with courts elsewhere. The adult criminal case management court sits in courtroom 204, Monday through Friday, and the court publishes a fixed rotation. Which day your matter is spoken to depends on where your last name falls in the alphabet.
The Ontario Court of Justice Hamilton location page sets the rotation out in a table. Monday is reserved for surnames A through E. Tuesday takes F through N. Wednesday is set aside for federal prosecutions rather than a letter range. Thursday takes O through Z. Friday is the adult domestic docket, split by letter across the two daily sittings.
So a Hamilton resident named Bennett and a Hamilton resident named Wallace, charged on the same night with the same offence by the same officer, will be in courtroom 204 on different days of the week. Neither of them did anything to cause that. It is simply how the docket is organised, and it is published in advance by the Ontario Court of Justice so that counsel and self-represented accused can plan.
Courtroom 204 is not only a scheduling exercise. The same court handles peace bond applications and withdrawals. A matter can begin and end in that room without ever reaching a trial court, which is why the early appearances there deserve more attention than they usually get.
The practical lesson is simple. Read your paperwork for the letter range and the day, not just the date. If the date on your release document does not line up with the rotation for your surname, something has gone wrong and it is worth a phone call before you assume you know when to attend.
The 9:00 counsel list against the 1:15 duty counsel list
Each sitting day in courtroom 204 has two time slots, and they do very different things.
The 9:00 a.m. slot is for counsel matters, meaning accused people who are represented by a lawyer. The 1:15 p.m. slot is for Legal Aid duty counsel and for people appearing without a lawyer. The letter range is the same across both slots on a given day. What changes is whether somebody is speaking for you.
That single distinction has a real effect on your day. If you are unrepresented, you sit in the afternoon list with everyone else who is unrepresented in your letter range, and duty counsel works through that list one person at a time. If you have retained counsel, your matter is spoken to in the morning list, usually in a couple of minutes, and in most case management appearances you may not need to attend at all.
The Ontario Court of Justice also publishes a virtual counsel sign-up sheet for courtroom 204. That sheet was developed jointly by the Criminal Lawyers Association and the Crown office in Hamilton so that counsel matters can be called in an orderly sequence rather than by whoever happens to be on screen. It is a small local arrangement, but it is the reason the morning list moves at the pace it does.
There is a provincial practice direction behind a lot of this too. Counsel matters are adjourned from the first or second appearance in case management court for a standard twelve week adjournment, on the expectation that the Crown and defence will complete disclosure and intake steps in that window and come back ready either to resolve the case or to set a trial date. That is twelve weeks of work happening out of court, and it is the stretch where the outcome of most files is actually determined. If you want to talk through what that period looks like on your matter, you can reach us through our contact page.
Friday is domestic day in Hamilton
Friday in courtroom 204 is the adult domestic case management court. The split runs A through L at 9:00 a.m. and M through Z at 1:15 p.m., and the published schedule lists both Friday sittings as duty counsel and unrepresented sittings.
Grouping domestic matters into a single weekday is common in Ontario and it has consequences worth understanding. The Crowns who staff that docket see these files all day. Bail conditions in domestic matters are usually stricter as a matter of course, often including no contact with the complainant and no attendance at a shared residence, and those conditions bite immediately even though nothing has been proven. Our page on domestic violence charges in Canada goes through how those conditions are set and varied. Where the allegation is a straightforward assault without a domestic element, the assault offences material is the better starting point.
One thing Hamilton does not have, and this matters because people are told otherwise: there is no Integrated Domestic Violence Court here. That court exists in Toronto only. The Ontario Court of Justice describes it as the first and only one of its kind in Canada, and eligibility requires a criminal matter at 10 Armoury Street in Toronto together with a family matter at either 47 Sheppard Avenue East or 311 Jarvis Street. If you are facing a domestic charge in Hamilton and a family proceeding at the same time, those two files run separately in front of different judges. Nobody is going to combine them, and any plan that assumes otherwise needs rethinking.
Federal prosecutions sit on Wednesdays
Wednesday in courtroom 204 is the adult federal case management court. Federal counsel matters are called at 9:00 a.m. and federal duty counsel and unrepresented matters at 1:15 p.m. There is no surname split on Wednesday, because the sorting principle that day is which prosecution service has carriage of the file.
Most criminal charges in Ontario are prosecuted by provincial Crown Attorneys under the Criminal Code. A smaller set, including most controlled drug and substance offences, is prosecuted by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. That is a federal service with its own disclosure process, its own resolution policies and, in Hamilton, its own contact details. Disclosure requests go to hamilton.disclosure@bellnet.ca or 289-426-5803, and the Court asks that you leave your name and your court date.
If your first appearance notice puts you in court on a Wednesday and your surname does not begin with a letter that would normally land you there, that is usually the explanation. Your matter is federal. It also tells you something useful before you have seen a single page of disclosure, which is that the Crown you will be negotiating with operates under a different policy manual than the provincial Crowns down the hall. Release conditions and the route to a bail hearing work the same way across both, and our Ontario bail lawyers page sets out that process.
Intensive case management in courtroom 200
Hamilton also runs a judge-led intensive case management court in courtroom 200, Monday to Friday at 10:00 a.m. It is a different room, a different time and a different purpose from the case management court in 204.
Intensive case management courts are presided over by a judge rather than run as a docket call, and they exist for matters that are not moving. A file might land there because disclosure has stalled, because there are multiple accused whose dates need to be coordinated, or because the case has simply been adjourned too many times without progress. The Ontario Court of Justice has a dedicated practice direction for these courts setting out how they operate.
The pressure behind all of this is delay. Under the Court practice direction on trial scheduling, parties are expected to have finished their intake steps and be ready either to resolve the matter or to set a trial or preliminary inquiry within six months of the date the Information was sworn. Trial dates are then offered on the expectation that the case will be completed within fifteen months of that same date. If a trial ends up scheduled beyond eighteen months from the sworn date, an application under section 11(b) of the Charter will be scheduled unless the defence confirms on the record that it is not bringing one.
Those numbers are not abstract. They are the reason a Hamilton file that drifts quietly for a year is a problem and an opportunity at the same time. Delay that is caused by the Crown or the institution counts differently from delay the defence asked for, and keeping a clean record of who asked for what is part of the job from the first appearance onward.
Pleas, peace bonds and withdrawals
Not every Hamilton charge ends in a trial. Most do not. The great majority are resolved somewhere between the first appearance and the trial date, and courtroom 204 is where a lot of that happens, because the same court that manages the docket also handles peace bonds and withdrawals.
A peace bond under section 810 of the Criminal Code is a recognizance to keep the peace and be of good behaviour, usually for twelve months. It is not a conviction. It produces no criminal record in the ordinary sense, though the fact of it can still show up on some police record checks. In exchange, the charge is withdrawn. The Ontario Court of Justice publishes a guide for applying for a peace bond and a standard application form, and peace bonds appear on the courtroom 204 schedule alongside the case management work.
A withdrawal is what it sounds like. The Crown decides there is no reasonable prospect of conviction, or that a prosecution is not in the public interest, and the charge comes off. Withdrawals are frequently negotiated in exchange for something: completion of a counselling programme, a charitable donation, a period of good behaviour, or a peace bond. Property and dishonesty allegations are a common place for this to happen, and our page on theft defence in Ontario goes through what those negotiations usually involve.
Guilty pleas are handled separately. The Ontario Court of Justice publishes connection information for a Hamilton courtroom 306 dealing with in-custody and out-of-custody pleas. We are deliberately not telling you which building that courtroom sits in, because the official page carrying that courtroom listing is the same page that has the east and west address problem described earlier. Confirm the location with the court office or with your lawyer before you attend.
A plea is the one step in a criminal case that is genuinely hard to undo. Before entering one you need to know what the Crown will actually seek on sentence, whether the offence carries a mandatory minimum, what the immigration consequences are if you are not a citizen, and whether a record will affect your employment or your ability to cross the border. None of that is visible from the charge sheet alone.
Hamilton Police Service: Central, Mountain and East End
Hamilton Police Service is organised into three patrol divisions serving a city of more than 500,000 residents. The names tell you the geography: the lower city, the Mountain and the east end.
Central Station is Division One, at 155 King William Street, postal code L8R 1A7. It is the only one of the three open around the clock. The front desk for non-emergency public inquiries is 905-546-4772.
East End Station is Division Two, at 2825 King Street East, postal code L8G 1J6. It is open 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The front desk is 905-546-2929.
Mountain Station is Division Three, at 400 Rymal Road East, postal code L9B 1C2. It is also open 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., with a front desk at 905-546-4930.
The general non-emergency line for the whole service is 905-546-4925. Each division also has a Crime Manager who deals with longer-running neighbourhood and property concerns rather than incidents in progress.
Why does any of this matter to somebody facing a charge? Because the division that processed you determines which station holds your property, where a fingerprint appointment is likely to be scheduled, and which officers you or your lawyer will be dealing with on disclosure. Firearm and weapon allegations in particular tend to involve specialised investigative units rather than the patrol division alone, and our weapons defence material explains how those files are usually built.
How a charge laid in the east end still lands downtown
The three divisions have published patrol boundaries, and they follow Hamilton geography rather than anything a map of the court system would recognise.
Central covers the lower city from Sherman Avenue on the east to Main Street West at the Dundas border on the west, bounded by the escarpment to the south and Cootes Paradise of Burlington Bay to the north. East End runs from Sherman Avenue west boundary out to the eastern edge of Stoney Creek, and north from the mountain brow down to Lake Ontario. Mountain covers five communities: Flamborough, Dundas, Ancaster, Binbrook and Glanbrook, and the Hamilton Mountain itself.
Here is the part that catches people out. None of those boundaries decide where your case is heard. Whether you were arrested in Stoney Creek, on Rymal Road or on King William Street, the adult criminal charge goes to the John Sopinka Courthouse at 45 Main Street East. The division is where the investigation sits. The courthouse is where the prosecution sits. They are two different questions, and a release document that names a police station is not telling you where to show up for court.
Driving matters make this concrete. A person stopped on the Linc and charged with impaired operation is dealt with by whichever division covers that stretch, but the charge itself proceeds in the criminal court downtown, with a separate administrative licence suspension running in parallel through the Ministry of Transportation. Our impaired driving page sets out how those two tracks interact, because the licence consequences often start long before the criminal case is anywhere near finished.
Bail hearings and the weekend and holiday bail court
If you are held for a bail hearing in Hamilton, the rules that govern that hearing changed this year. The Ontario Court of Justice Practice Direction Regarding Bail Hearings took effect province-wide on 1 June 2026, which means it applies in Hamilton the same as everywhere else in Ontario.
The headline principle is same-day. All reasonable steps are to be taken to accommodate a bail hearing, contested or not, on the day the parties are ready to proceed. That applies to weekday bail courts and to the Weekend and Statutory Holiday bail courts, usually called WASH courts, which is what runs when somebody is arrested on a Saturday or over a long weekend.
The practice direction sets time targets. Routine contested bail hearings are expected to finish in no longer than thirty minutes. Consent releases are expected to finish in no longer than fifteen minutes, and all proposed consent releases put before the court are to be accommodated the same day. A matter with two or more complicating features can be identified to the presiding judicial officer as a Complex Bail Matter, which makes it eligible for extra court time not ordinarily exceeding two hours, and complex hearings are to be heard the same day they are identified.
Thirty minutes is not long. It is why preparation matters more under this regime, not less. At the start of every hearing the parties now set out the onus, the Crown position on detention, which grounds for detention are in issue and why, the form of release the Crown would accept if detention is not sought, the defence position on release, and the defence plan. If your lawyer is assembling that plan in the hallway, thirty minutes will not be enough.
Sureties are treated more carefully than they once were. A surety release is only required where the court is satisfied it is the least onerous form of release available, and all parties are expected to consider alternatives. Where a surety is proposed, the declaration should be prepared by defence counsel, shared with the Crown and filed in advance, and sureties are expected to make themselves available at the time of the hearing so that if release is ordered it can be entered into immediately. The statutory framework for all of this sits in section 515 of the Criminal Code. Our Toronto bail lawyers page covers the surety role in more detail, and it works the same way in Hamilton.
One more practical point. Once you are released, you do not necessarily have to go back to the courthouse to change a condition. The Court has a consent variation procedure allowing release orders and police undertakings to be varied by electronic means, provided the Crown agrees.
Moving a case up to the Superior Court of Justice
Not every Hamilton criminal case stays in the Ontario Court of Justice. For most indictable offences an accused person has an election, which is a choice about which court hears the trial and in what form. The options are a trial in the Ontario Court of Justice, a trial by a Superior Court judge sitting alone, or a trial by a Superior Court judge and jury. The two Superior Court options can also carry a preliminary inquiry, depending on the offence.
The Superior Court of Justice divides Ontario into eight regions, and Hamilton sits in Central South. The Court lists two Hamilton entries in that region: Hamilton for family matters, and Hamilton at the John Sopinka building. Central South also takes in Brantford, Cayuga, Kitchener, Simcoe, St. Catharines and Welland.
That regional map is worth a moment because it does not follow the borders people assume. Burlington and Milton, which are physically closer to Hamilton than St. Catharines is, sit in Central West rather than Central South. Regions matter because each of the eight issues its own regional practice directions on top of the province-wide ones. A procedure that is routine in one region is not necessarily how the neighbouring region does it.
Choosing an election is a strategic decision, not a formality. A preliminary inquiry gives the defence a chance to test the Crown case under oath before trial, which can be worth a great deal in a case that turns on the reliability of a single witness. It also adds time, and time is not free when a client is subject to restrictive conditions. Serious allegations are where this choice carries the most weight, and our pages on sexual offence charges and fraud defence deal with the kinds of case where the election question usually arises.
Sentencing principles travel with the case whichever court hears it. Every Canadian criminal court is required to apply section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code and the Gladue principles when sentencing an Indigenous person, and to give particular attention to the circumstances of Indigenous accused when making bail decisions. That obligation is not limited to courthouses that run a dedicated Indigenous Peoples Court. It applies in Hamilton, in a regular courtroom, on an ordinary day.
Retaining counsel from outside Hamilton
We should be straightforward about this. Kazandji Law does not have an office in Hamilton. Our offices are at 180 John Street, Unit 320 in Toronto, 7191 Yonge Street, Suite 310 in Thornhill, 70 Forest Manor Road, Unit 4B in North York, and 466 Speers Road in Oakville. We appear in Hamilton. We are not based there, and you should not choose a lawyer on the basis of a shopfront that does not exist.
What has changed is how much of a criminal case now happens without anyone being in the building. Hamilton publishes video and telephone connection details for the case management court in courtroom 204 and for the intensive case management court in courtroom 200. Judicial pre-trials are held by videoconference unless a judge directs otherwise. Consent variations of release conditions are dealt with electronically. The counsel sign-up sheet for courtroom 204 is itself a virtual document. A file can go through months of appearances with counsel attending remotely and the client not attending at all.
That is not an argument for retaining someone who has never worked in the building. Local practice is real. Knowing how a particular Crown office approaches resolution, how the docket actually runs, and who to call when a date goes wrong is worth something you cannot get from a practice direction. It is an argument that geography alone is a poor reason to rule a lawyer out, and that the questions worth asking are about the work rather than the postcode.
If you are dealing with a matter in one of the surrounding municipalities rather than Hamilton itself, the courts and the police services are different and so is the routine. We have separate pages for Burlington, Milton and Oakville, all of which fall under Halton rather than Hamilton and none of which use the surname rotation described on this page.
Tickets at 50 Main Street East are not criminal charges
The City of Hamilton runs its provincial offences court at 50 Main Street East, postal code L8N 1E9. The provincial offences administration office is open Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on 905-540-5592, and the email address is poa@hamilton.ca. In the provincial system Hamilton carries the Integrated Courts Offences Network code 4760, which is the identifier that appears against the city on the Ontario list of provincial offences court locations.
This building deals with charges under provincial statutes and municipal by-laws. Speeding, red light camera notices, automated speed enforcement, driving without insurance, licensing and by-law matters. A provincial offence is not a criminal offence. A conviction produces demerit points and insurance consequences, not a criminal record.
If you receive a provincial offence notice you have three routes. You can pay it, which is a guilty plea. You can request early resolution, which is a meeting with the prosecutor to see whether the charge or the penalty can be reduced. Or you can request a trial. A summons is a different document again: it is an order to appear before a Justice of the Peace, and attendance is not optional.
Provincial offences matters in Hamilton are heard in courtrooms 100, 200, 201 and 202, and the City publishes Zoom connection details for each. Note the trap in that list. There is a courtroom 200 in the provincial offences court at 50 Main Street East and a courtroom 200 in the criminal court at 45 Main Street East, and they are entirely unrelated. Read the courtroom number together with the building address on your notice, never on its own.
The line between the two systems runs through driving offences more than anywhere else. Careless driving is a Highway Traffic Act charge and belongs at 50 Main Street East. Dangerous operation of a conveyance is a Criminal Code charge and belongs at 45 Main Street East, with all the consequences that follow from a criminal prosecution. The wording on the ticket or release document tells you which one you are facing, and if you are unsure, our dangerous driving defence page sets out the distinction. Getting it wrong in either direction is expensive: people plead guilty to criminal charges thinking they are tickets, and people hire criminal lawyers for matters that a paralegal could resolve at the counter.
Common questions about criminal charges in Hamilton. The answers below cover the courthouse, the docket, bail and the difference between a ticket and a charge.
Which Hamilton courthouse will my criminal charge be heard in?
Adult criminal charges laid in Hamilton are heard at the John Sopinka Courthouse at 45 Main Street East, postal code L8N 2B7. The general court office number is 905-645-5252. The courthouse at 55 Main Street West handles family matters and carries no criminal listing, and 50 Main Street East is the City provincial offences court for tickets and by-law charges.
What day of the week will my case be called in courtroom 204?
Hamilton sorts its adult criminal case management court by surname. Monday takes A through E, Tuesday takes F through N, Thursday takes O through Z, and Friday is the adult domestic docket. Wednesday is reserved for federal prosecutions rather than a letter range. Check the day against the first letter of your last name.
Why is my court time 9:00 am when someone else has 1:15 pm?
The 9:00 am sitting in courtroom 204 is for counsel matters, meaning people who have a lawyer. The 1:15 pm sitting is for Legal Aid duty counsel and people appearing without a lawyer. The surname range is the same in both sittings. Retaining a lawyer moves your matter to the morning list.
Does Kazandji Law have an office in Hamilton?
No. We do not have a Hamilton office and we will not pretend otherwise. Our offices are in Toronto, Thornhill, North York and Oakville, and we appear in Hamilton from those locations. Because most Hamilton case management appearances and judicial pre-trials are now conducted by video, a great deal of the work happens without anyone attending the building.
Is my first appearance in Hamilton in person or on Zoom?
The Ontario Court of Justice publishes video and telephone connection details for the Hamilton case management court in courtroom 204 and the intensive case management court in courtroom 200, so many appearances are conducted remotely. The mode of appearance depends on the stage of the case and on any direction from the presiding judicial officer, so confirm before your date rather than assuming.
What happens if I am arrested in Hamilton on a Saturday?
Weekend and statutory holiday arrests are dealt with in what is usually called WASH court. The Ontario Court of Justice practice direction on bail hearings that took effect on 1 June 2026 applies to weekend and holiday bail courts as well as weekday courts, and it requires that all reasonable steps be taken to hold the hearing on the day the parties are ready to proceed.
How long should a contested bail hearing in Hamilton take?
The Court expects routine contested bail hearings to be completed in no longer than thirty minutes and consent releases in no longer than fifteen minutes. A matter with two or more complicating features can be identified to the presiding judicial officer as a Complex Bail Matter, which allows additional court time not ordinarily exceeding two hours, heard the same day it is identified.
My charge is domestic. Why is my court date a Friday?
Hamilton groups adult domestic matters into a single weekday. Friday in courtroom 204 is the adult domestic case management court, with surnames A through L at 9:00 am and M through Z at 1:15 pm. The date is set by the structure of the docket, not by anything specific to your case.
Who prosecutes a federal drug charge in Hamilton?
Federal offences, including most controlled drug and substance charges, are prosecuted by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada rather than by a provincial Crown Attorney. The Hamilton disclosure contact is hamilton.disclosure@bellnet.ca and 289-426-5803, and the Court asks that you leave your name and your court date. Federal matters are called in courtroom 204 on Wednesdays.
Does Hamilton have an Integrated Domestic Violence Court?
No. The Integrated Domestic Violence Court operates in Toronto only, and the Ontario Court of Justice describes it as the first and only court of its kind in Canada. Eligibility requires a criminal matter at 10 Armoury Street together with a family matter at either 47 Sheppard Avenue East or 311 Jarvis Street. A Hamilton domestic charge and a Hamilton family case proceed separately.
Where do I deal with a speeding ticket in Hamilton?
Provincial offences including speeding are handled by the City of Hamilton at 50 Main Street East, postal code L8N 1E9, not at the criminal courthouse. The office is open Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on 905-540-5592, and the email address is poa@hamilton.ca. You can pay the fine, request an early resolution meeting with the prosecutor, or request a trial.
How do I get disclosure for a Hamilton criminal case?
Disclosure comes from the prosecution service that has carriage of your file. For provincial charges the Hamilton Crown Attorney office is at 905-645-5262, with VirtualCrownHamilton@ontario.ca and Eservice.Hamilton.Crowns@ontario.ca published as contact addresses. For federal charges the request goes to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada at hamilton.disclosure@bellnet.ca or 289-426-5803.
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