Bolton Criminal Defence Lawyers

Home › Criminal Defence › Bolton Criminal Defence Lawyers

Kazandji Law has no office in Bolton and none anywhere in Caledon. Bolton has no courthouse either, and neither does the rest of the Town. If you have been charged with a criminal offence here, your case goes to Brampton, and the officers who charged you were almost certainly not Peel Regional Police. Caledon is policed by the Ontario Provincial Police. That single fact sets the pattern for this whole page: Bolton sits inside Peel Region, but nearly every rule that governs the rest of Peel has a Caledon carve out bolted onto it. Below, one rule at a time, is the rule, the exception, and what each one actually changes for you.

Written by the criminal defence team at Kazandji Law, led by founding partner Fadi Matthew Kazandji. Every court, police and Provincial Offences detail on this page was re-checked on 13 September 2026 against the Ontario Court of Justice location listing for Brampton, the Ministry of the Attorney General court locations listing, the provincial Provincial Offences Court locations list, the Town of Caledon Provincial Offences and Caledon OPP pages, and the Court practice directions on bail and on mode of appearance.

The rule: Peel Regional Police covers Peel Region. The exception: it does not cover you.

Bolton is a community inside the Town of Caledon, and Caledon is one of the three municipalities that make up the Regional Municipality of Peel. Read that sentence on its own and you would expect Peel Regional Police. Mississauga and Brampton are both Peel Regional Police jurisdictions, and the firm publishes pages for both. Bolton is not one of them.

Policing across Caledon is provided by the Ontario Provincial Police, through the Caledon OPP Detachment. The Town of Caledon publishes Caledon OPP under its own Town Services section, lists the detachment line at 905-584-2241 with business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays, and points residents to the provincial non emergency number, 1-888-310-1122, which answers around the clock from anywhere in Ontario. The current Caledon OPP Detachment Commander is Inspector Natalie Majer. Peel Regional Police does not appear anywhere in the Town listing, and the Town directs police complaints about a Caledon matter to Caledon OPP.

Start with your own paperwork, because this is the fastest way to confirm it. Look at the top of the release document, appearance notice or summons you were handed. If it says Ontario Provincial Police, that is not an error and it is not a mix up. It is exactly what a Bolton charge should say. If it says Peel Regional Police, something unusual has happened, most often because the offence was alleged somewhere other than where you live, and that is worth raising with counsel immediately rather than letting it sit.

Why does a lay reader need to care about the name of a police service? Because almost everything that happens in the first month of a criminal case runs through the force that laid the charge. Disclosure is assembled and released by them. Officer notes, in car video, body worn camera footage where it exists, breath technician certificates, occurrence reports and continuity records all originate with them. Property and vehicles seized are held by them. Any request to vary a condition on an officer imposed undertaking begins with the right unit inside the right service. Directing that correspondence to a Peel Regional Police address because a website told you Bolton is in Peel wastes weeks you cannot get back.

One region, two police services. Why that reaches your case and is not just trivia.

It is fair to ask whether this is a distinction that matters to anyone but a policy analyst. It matters, and here is the concrete reason.

A municipal or regional police service and a provincial detachment are built differently. The OPP is a single provincial organisation with detachments, regional commands and province wide specialist units, and Caledon is served by a detachment inside that structure. Peel Regional Police is a regional service with its own divisions, its own records branch and its own court services unit sitting beside a specific courthouse. Those are two different routing systems for the same paperwork.

Practically, that shows up in three places. Disclosure requests go to a different office and travel a different route, and the timelines you hear quoted for Peel files do not automatically transfer. Police record checks for Caledon go through the OPP process, which since 13 June 2022 has been an online only request system, with some checks still requiring in person fingerprinting; there is no walk up counter transaction for it. And the officer you need to reach about property, a condition, or a scheduling problem is attached to a detachment with published weekday business hours rather than to a division desk.

None of that changes the law applied to your charge. The Criminal Code is federal and it does not vary by detachment. What it changes is the administration around the charge, and in the first six weeks of a file the administration is most of the work. If you want the Peel Regional Police side of the picture for comparison, the firm sets it out on the Brampton criminal defence page and the Mississauga criminal defence page. Read either one and you will see how much of it simply does not describe a Bolton file.

The rule with no Caledon exception: everyone in Peel goes to Brampton for bail.

Having spent two sections on carve outs, here is a point where Bolton follows the ordinary Peel pattern exactly, and saying so plainly is more useful than manufacturing a difference. If you are held for a bail hearing after a Caledon arrest, you are going to the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton, at 7755 Hurontario Street. There is no Caledon bail court and there is no Bolton bail court.

What has changed is not the building but the way the hearing is expected to run. A province wide Practice Direction Regarding Bail Hearings took effect on 1 June 2026, issued by Chief Justice Sharon Nicklas under Rule 5.1 of the Criminal Rules. For a Bolton file the most useful part of it is at the far end of the document, in the section on Complex Bail Matters, because it is the part nobody explains to families at the courthouse door.

Under that section, where a matter carries two or more of a listed set of features, counsel may identify it to the presiding judicial officer as a Complex Bail Matter. The listed features are two or more proposed sureties where the Crown wants to cross examine, matters needing an interpreter, a section 524 application where two or more existing release orders are already in play, and specialized prosecution team matters identified as such at the hearing. A matter accepted as complex becomes eligible for additional court time, which the direction says will not ordinarily exceed two hours, and it is to be heard the same day it is identified as complex.

That matters in Caledon for an unglamorous reason. Households here frequently put forward two sureties rather than one, often a parent and a sibling or a spouse and an employer, and multi surety plans are precisely the fact pattern the complex route was written for. Knowing the route exists is the difference between a plan being compressed into a thirty minute slot it was never going to fit, and counsel asking for the right allocation at the outset. The firm sets out the mechanics of the hearing itself on the Ontario bail hearing page, and what happens when the Crown seeks detention on the show cause hearing page.

The rule: every municipality has a courthouse somewhere near it. The exception: Caledon has none.

Bolton has no courthouse. Caledon East has no criminal courthouse. Nowhere in the Town of Caledon is there a building where a criminal charge is heard. A criminal matter arising in Bolton is heard at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton.

The Ministry of the Attorney General lists the building as the Brampton (A. Grenville and William Davis) Courthouse, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton, Ontario L6W 4T1. The Ontario Court of Justice publishes the same address with the general court office line at 905-456-4700 and the court office email Brampton.OCJ.courts@ontario.ca. The provincial listing sets out the opening pattern that catches people out more than anything else on this page: the court offices run Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but counter service runs only Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and again from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The counter is shut across the middle of the day. Arrive from Bolton at half past twelve to file something and you will wait.

Two more details worth having before you travel. The Brampton listing covers civil, criminal, criminal youth, Divisional, Enforcement and family matters as well as a Victim and Witness Assistance Program at 905-456-4797, so the building is considerably larger and busier than the single counter people picture. And the two government listings publish slightly different Crown contacts: the Ontario Court of Justice gives the provincial Crown as virtualcrownbrampton@ontario.ca with 905-456-4777, while the Ministry listing gives VirtualCrownBrampton@ontario.ca with 905-456-4778 and a fax at 905-456-4780. If one number does not connect, the other is not a typo on your part.

Some competitor pages for this town suggest checking that your lawyer appears regularly in Bolton courts. Treat that as a reliability test of the page rather than of the lawyer. There are no Bolton courts.

The rule: a Peel ticket goes to a Peel court. The exception: a Bolton ticket goes to Caledon East.

This is where the exception ladder produces something genuinely surprising, and it is visible in the province of Ontario list of Provincial Offences Court locations if you know where to look.

Every Provincial Offences court in Ontario carries an ICON code. Brampton is ICON code 3160, at 5 Ray Lawson Blvd, Brampton L6Y 5L7. Mississauga is ICON code 3161, at 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga L5C 3B4. Two Peel municipalities, two consecutive codes in the same series, two courts a short drive apart.

Caledon is ICON code 0661, at 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon, Ontario L7C 1J6, with the contact address Caledon.POA@Caledon.ca. Not 3162. Not anywhere near the Peel series at all. Caledon sits in the 0600 block beside Orangeville, which is ICON code 0660. On the province of Ontario own filing map, the Town of Caledon is grouped with Dufferin County, not with Peel.

What you were handed	Who deals with it	Where it physically goes
Criminal charge (Criminal Code)	Provincial Crown, Brampton	Ontario Court of Justice, 7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton L6W 4T1
Bail after a Caledon arrest	Provincial Crown, Brampton	Same building, 7755 Hurontario Street
Provincial Offences ticket or summons issued in Caledon	Town of Caledon prosecutors	Caledon East, ICON code 0661, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon L7C 1J6
Provincial Offences ticket issued in Orangeville or seven other Dufferin municipalities	Town of Caledon, Dufferin office	ICON code 0660, 55 Zina Street, Orangeville L9W 1E5
Penalty Notice or Penalty Order	Town of Caledon, Administrative Monetary Penalty System	Not a court process at all
Provincial Offences ticket issued in Brampton	City of Brampton prosecutors	ICON code 3160, 5 Ray Lawson Blvd, Brampton L6Y 5L7
Provincial Offences ticket issued in Mississauga	City of Mississauga prosecutors	ICON code 3161, 950 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Mississauga L5C 3B4

So the practical answer to the most common Bolton question is that a speeding ticket and a criminal charge from the same night go to two different levels of government in two different towns, prosecuted by two different offices, on two different tracks. If the charge is a driving one that could go either way, the distinction is worth understanding early; the firm covers the criminal driving offences on the Ontario driving offence page and the Highway Traffic Act side on the careless driving page.

The rule: prosecutions are run by the Crown. The exception: yours may be run by the Town.

People routinely assume that anyone prosecuting them in a courtroom is a Crown Attorney. For a Caledon ticket, that is wrong, and the difference is not cosmetic.

Criminal Code matters are prosecuted by the provincial Crown, and for Bolton that means the Brampton Crown office. Most Provincial Offences Act matters are administered and prosecuted by municipalities under agreements with the Ministry of the Attorney General. Caledon holds one of those agreements and runs the prosecution itself. When you ask for an early resolution meeting on a Caledon ticket, the person on the other side of the table is a Town of Caledon prosecutor, not a Crown Attorney.

That has consequences worth knowing. The Town publishes its own route for the steps that follow a ticket: pay it, request an early resolution meeting with the prosecutor, or request a trial and plead not guilty. It publishes its own disclosure request process, and it publishes its own estimate of how long that takes, six to eight weeks, longer if the form is incomplete or filled out incorrectly. It publishes a reopening process where a notice of trial or early resolution never reached you, which must be started within fifteen days of you becoming aware of the conviction. And it runs its own extension and payment plan system through collections@caledon.ca for fines already in default.

The default consequences the Town sets out are also worth reading before you ignore a ticket: collection and administrative costs, a driver licence suspension, the fine added to your property tax bill, civil enforcement including wage and bank garnishment and a lien against property, and referral to a credit reporting agency. None of that requires a criminal conviction. It follows from an unpaid provincial fine.

The rule: a municipality prosecutes its own tickets. The exception: Caledon prosecutes for eight more.

Most municipalities that run a Provincial Offences court run it for themselves. Caledon runs a second one for somebody else.

The same Town of Caledon office administers Dufferin Court, ICON code 0660, which covers tickets and summonses issued in Orangeville, Shelburne, Mono, Melancthon, Amaranth, Mulmur, Grand Valley and East Garafraxa. That is eight municipalities in a different county, administered out of Caledon, with a counter at 55 Zina Street, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 1E5 and the contact address Dufferin.POA@Caledon.ca. The Town runs separate Zoom courtrooms for the two courts, one for Caledon 0661 and one for Dufferin 0660, and a third shared line for Caledon and Dufferin judicial pre trials.

Why put this on a criminal defence page at all? Because it tells you something real about the office you are dealing with. This is not a sleepy counter that handles a few dozen parking matters. It is a two court administration running its own prosecutors, its own virtual courtrooms and its own pre trial line across two counties. Expect it to be organised, expect it to run to its own published process, and do not expect informal accommodation because you drove in from Bolton.

It also explains a piece of correspondence that confuses people. Appeals from a conviction in either the Caledon or the Orangeville Provincial Offences court are not handled by the Town. They are directed to the Ministry of the Attorney General at 10 Louisa Street, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 3P9, telephone 519-941-5802, and the Town states that Caledon and Orangeville appeals are filed in person on the second floor there. So a Bolton resident appealing a Bolton ticket files in Orangeville. If the matter you are appealing is a criminal conviction rather than a provincial one, the route is entirely different and is set out on the Ontario criminal appeals page.

The rule: a fine means a court process. The exception: a Penalty Notice bypasses it.

This is the single most commonly missed distinction in Caledon, and it costs people their options rather than their money.

The Town of Caledon operates an Administrative Monetary Penalty System alongside the Provincial Offences court. If the document in your hand is a Penalty Notice or a Penalty Order, the Town states plainly that it falls under that system and that the Provincial Offences instructions do not apply to it. You cannot request a Provincial Offences trial on it. You cannot request an early resolution meeting with a Provincial Offences prosecutor on it. The steps published for POA tickets are the wrong steps.

Look at the heading on the document before you do anything, because the two arrive in similar envelopes and both quote a sum of money. A Provincial Offences ticket or summons will refer you to a court process, an offence under a provincial statute, and a set fine with a total payable made up of the set fine, costs and the victim fine surcharge. A Penalty Notice or Penalty Order runs on the administrative track with its own review process and its own deadlines.

Neither is a criminal charge, and neither produces a criminal record. But missing the deadline on the wrong track produces exactly the same practical mess: a defaulted fine, a licence problem and a debt that follows you. If you are unsure which document you are holding, say so at the first phone call rather than acting on the wrong instructions and losing the window.

There is an OPP office in downtown Bolton. What it is, and what the Town does not publish about it.

In January 2026 the Town of Caledon announced the opening of an OPP Community Safety Office in downtown Bolton. It was a relocation of the office that previously sat at the Caledon Centre for Recreation and Wellness, and the Town described it as putting officers closer to residents, businesses and community organisations, with the Detachment Commander framing it as a visibility and engagement measure.

If you are the subject of an investigation rather than a complainant, the point sharpens considerably. Do not walk into any police facility, staffed or otherwise, to explain yourself. You are under no obligation to give a statement and a statement given without advice is the single most common self inflicted wound in a criminal file. Call counsel first. That is not a sales line; it is the one piece of advice that holds regardless of who you retain.

One further practical note for Caledon residents. Police record checks through the OPP have been an online only request since 13 June 2022, with some checks still requiring in person fingerprinting afterwards. If a conviction or a withdrawn charge is what is driving your record check anxiety, the options for dealing with it sit on the record suspension page.

Counters, hours and the trips you can avoid making

Because the Bolton file is split across two systems in two towns, the places you may physically have to attend are split too. It is worth mapping them once so you do not make an unnecessary journey.

For the criminal charge, the building is the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton at 7755 Hurontario Street. Court offices operate Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Counter service is narrower, Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Plan around the closed middle of the day.

For a Caledon Provincial Offences matter, the filing office is Provincial Offences Administration Caledon, 6311 Old Church Road, Caledon East, Ontario L7C 1J6, telephone 905-584-2273, fax 905-584-2861, email caledon.poa@caledon.ca. Accessibility requests for the Caledon court go to 905-584-2272 or the same email address. For a Dufferin matter, the counter is at 55 Zina Street, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 1E5, telephone 519-941-5808, email dufferin.poa@caledon.ca.

For police contact, the Caledon OPP detachment line is 905-584-2241 with business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays. Outside those hours the provincial non emergency line, 1-888-310-1122, is answered at all times, with a TTY line at 1-888-310-1133. Emergencies are 9-1-1, as always.

A note on Caledon East, since the name causes confusion. Caledon East is a separate community from Bolton within the same Town. The Provincial Offences counter is there, not in Bolton, so a Bolton resident filing a Provincial Offences document is travelling within Caledon rather than staying in the village.

The rule: remote appearance is available. The exception: it is not the default, and the stage decides.

Your Caledon ticket has a published Zoom link on the Town website. Your Brampton criminal charge may well require you in the room. People read those two facts side by side and conclude the criminal system is being awkward. It is not. The two systems sit under different rules, and the criminal rule is statutory.

Under section 715.21 of the Criminal Code, appearing in person is the default in a criminal proceeding. Remote attendance is the carve out, not the baseline. Two sections do different jobs and should never be run together: section 715.23 governs when an accused person may appear remotely, and section 715.25 governs counsel and other participants. The surrounding provisions at sections 715.231 to 715.241 set out the machinery, section 715.221 requires reasons where a request is refused, and section 715.222 lets the court end a remote appearance that is not working. Where a guilty plea or sentencing is to proceed virtually, sections 715.234 and 715.235 allow it with the consent of the prosecutor and the accused.

Layered on top is the Ontario Court of Justice practice direction on Mode of Appearance for Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Proceedings, issued under Criminal Rules 1.4 and 5. It divides the file by stage. Case management appearances, including Judge led Intensive Case Management Court and trial confirmation, may proceed virtually for out of custody accused persons and counsel unless a judicial officer directs otherwise; accused persons attending virtually are encouraged to use video, and counsel attending virtually are expected to use video. Guilty pleas and sentencings require all participants in person unless the Court allows a virtual plea. Trials and preliminary inquiries require all participants in person unless a judge orders otherwise. And where an accused person is appearing in person, counsel are expected to be in the room with them rather than on a screen.

For a Bolton reader the practical translation is this. Some of your appearances can realistically be dealt with without you taking a day off. The ones that decide the outcome will generally not be. Anyone who tells you a Brampton criminal file can be run entirely from your kitchen table is either describing a Provincial Offences matter or is not describing the current practice direction.

The exception that does not exist: nobody is local to a Bolton criminal charge.

Every section above has been a rule and its Caledon exception. This last one goes the other way, because it is the place where the exception people expect simply is not there.

The instinct in a small community is to find a local lawyer, and it is a sound instinct in most fields. For a Bolton criminal charge it does not land, because there is no local court to be local to. There is no criminal courthouse in Bolton and none anywhere in Caledon, so every defence lawyer on every Bolton file is travelling, and the overwhelming majority of them are travelling to the same building on Hurontario Street. A lawyer with an office on Queen Street in Bolton and a lawyer with an office in Toronto are both driving to Brampton.

The licensing position reinforces it. A Class L1 licence from the Law Society of Ontario is a provincial licence. It authorises practice anywhere in Ontario. There is no separate qualification, roster or admission requirement for the Brampton courthouse, for the Caledon Provincial Offences court, or for any other court in this province. Nobody is credentialed for Bolton in particular because there is nothing to be credentialed for.

So the honest test is not distance. It is whether counsel knows that the OPP laid your charge rather than Peel Regional Police, knows your ticket is a Town of Caledon prosecution under code 0661 rather than a Peel one, knows the Brampton counter shuts between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., and knows which stages of your file the Court expects in person. Those are the things that change outcomes and timelines. A postcode does not.

Why Kazandji Law

We are a criminal defence firm, and when a client is charged in Bolton we act on exactly the terms set out above. No office in the town, no suggestion of one, and a plain account of what the distance changes and what it does not.

Our offices are at 180 John Street Unit 320 in Toronto, 7191 Yonge Street Suite 310 in Thornhill, and in North York and Oakville. There is no Bolton office and no Caledon office. Founding partner Fadi Matthew Kazandji leads the defence practice, and the lawyer who speaks to you about your file is the lawyer who carries it. We attend 7755 Hurontario Street for the stages the Court expects in person, and we appear remotely where the presiding judicial officer allows it.

What we offer is not proximity, because proximity to a courthouse that does not exist is not on offer from anyone. It is the ordinary discipline of a file run properly: disclosure requested in writing in the first week and chased when it is short, a release plan built before the bail hearing rather than assembled in the corridor, the Complex Bail Matter route raised at the outset where two sureties are in play, elections made after the evidence has been read rather than on the first return date, and Crown pre trial positions taken on the strength of the record. We act across the range of charges that come out of Caledon, from assault allegations and drug offences through to breach and failure to comply charges.

Bolton questions, answered directly

This page is general information about criminal procedure affecting Bolton and the Town of Caledon, Ontario, and it is not legal advice. Courthouse addresses, counter hours, courtroom assignments, Provincial Offences court codes, police contacts and practice directions change, and several of them changed while this page was being prepared; confirm anything time sensitive with the Ontario Court of Justice, the Ministry of the Attorney General, the Town of Caledon or the relevant police service before relying on it. Reading this page does not create a solicitor and client relationship with Kazandji Law. If you are facing a charge, get advice about your own circumstances.