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If you were charged in Brampton, your case is going to 7755 Hurontario Street. That address is the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse, and it holds both the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice in the same building. Peel Regional Police made the arrest. The Brampton Crown Attorney or a federal prosecutor will decide what happens to the file. This page follows the case in order, from the first hours in custody through to the day it ends. Kazandji Law has no office in Brampton. We appear there, and the rest of this page sets out exactly how that works.

Written by the criminal defence team at Kazandji Law, led by founding partner Fadi Matthew Kazandji. Every court, police and provincial offences detail below was re-checked on 14 September 2026 against the Ontario Court of Justice and Superior Court of Justice location pages for Brampton, the Ministry of the Attorney General listings for 7755 and 7765 Hurontario Street, the Ontario Court of Justice Practice Direction Regarding Bail Hearings, the Peel Regional Police court information and construction project pages, and the City of Brampton Court and Administrative Services pages.

The first 24 hours after a Peel Regional Police arrest

Peel Regional Police is the service for both Brampton and Mississauga, so the officers who arrested you answer to the same command as the officers working a call in Meadowvale. The non-emergency line is 905-453-3311. The TTY line is 905-451-1196. If your family is trying to find out where you are held and nobody is answering, that non-emergency number is the one to use.

After an arrest the process is mechanical and it is the same for almost everyone. You are searched, your property is bagged and receipted, your fingerprints and photograph are taken, and you are put in a cell while an officer decides whether you go home or go to court. Detainee processing is one of the functions Peel Regional Police is building into Phase 1 of the redevelopment of the Sir Robert Peel Centre at 7750 Hurontario Street, which is directly across the road from the courthouse. That building opened in 1981, construction on Phase 1 began in July 2025, and the service expects it to open between late 2028 and early 2029. None of that changes your rights today. It is worth knowing only because the site is busy and access to it changes.

The one thing that matters in those first hours is the phone call. You have the right to retain and instruct counsel without delay, and you have the right to be told that. Ask for it out loud, ask for it again if the first request goes nowhere, and do not treat the ride to the station as a conversation. Officers are allowed to keep asking questions after you have spoken to a lawyer. You are allowed to keep saying that you have nothing to add. Almost every difficult file we take over in Brampton got harder because somebody tried to explain themselves in an interview room.

Because the police service and the prosecuting office cover the whole region, much of what is written here applies in the same way to a charge laid a few kilometres south. If your arrest happened on the Mississauga side of the line, the parallel walkthrough is on our Mississauga criminal defence page. The way we run a defence file is the same wherever the charge was laid, and it is set out in the criminal defence section of this site.

Released at the scene, released at the station, or held for bail

There are three doors out of a Peel arrest and they lead to very different places.

The first is release at the scene. An officer hands you an appearance notice, you go home, and a date is written on the paper. The second is release from the station by the officer in charge, usually on an undertaking that carries conditions. The third is that the officer in charge decides you are not going anywhere, and you are held for a bail hearing.

One note on vocabulary. The Peel Regional Police court information page still lists a promise to appear and a recognizance by court alongside the appearance notice and the undertaking. Those older forms were replaced when the Criminal Code release provisions were rewritten in 2019. What you will actually be handed today is an appearance notice, an undertaking, or a release order made by a justice. If the language on your paperwork does not match the language on the police website, the paperwork is what governs.

Which door you go through has very little to do with how serious the allegation feels to you and a great deal to do with three questions a Crown will ask. Will you come back to court. Will you commit another offence or interfere with a witness. Would releasing you shake a reasonable person confidence in the administration of justice. Those are the primary, secondary and tertiary grounds, and they are the entire architecture of a bail hearing. Peel Regional Police lists its own shorthand for the same thing, naming the seriousness of the offence, the risk of re-offending and a breach of parole as reasons a person is held.

There is one Peel program worth knowing about if the allegation is a first shop theft. The Shop Theft Release Program was built to handle first-time shop theft, and once the assessment is done the person may be released by the loss prevention investigator who arrested them rather than being processed through a division. That is not a finding of innocence and it does not always mean no charge follows, but it changes the day considerably. If you are dealing with a retail theft allegation, the substantive defences are set out on our Ontario theft defence page.

If you have been told someone is being held for a hearing, the mechanics of what happens next are set out in our guide to bail and bail hearings in Canada, and the way we prepare and run those hearings is described on our Toronto bail lawyers page.

What a surety actually signs up for

A surety is a person who promises the court that you will attend and that you will obey your conditions, and who pledges a sum of money against that promise. Peel Regional Police puts it plainly on its own page. A surety may be required to make a cash deposit or to sign documents pledging an amount of money. In practice the pledge is almost never deposited up front. It becomes real only if you breach and the Crown moves to forfeit it.

The Ontario Court of Justice tightened the way surety bail is handled in its Practice Direction Regarding Bail Hearings, issued by Chief Justice Sharon Nicklas and effective 1 June 2026. It applies to weekday bail courts and to weekend and statutory holiday WASH courts, and it changes what a surety should expect on the day.

• Release with a surety is only required where the court is satisfied that it is the least onerous form of release available in the circumstances. Everyone at the hearing is expected to consider alternatives first.
• If a surety is proposed, defence counsel should prepare the surety declaration, share it with the Crown, and file it with the court before the hearing, unless the Crown consents to dispensing with it.
• The court expects the declaration to be completed, signed and sworn before it is filed. If swearing it was not feasible, the surety may be asked to attend and confirm the contents under oath, and may do that by audio-video unless a judicial officer directs otherwise.
• Where a declaration has been filed, the expectation is that the surety is not examined in chief and not cross-examined at all.
• If the Crown does want to cross-examine, it has to identify the issues, explain the purpose, and give a time estimate.
• Sureties should be available at the time of the hearing so that if release is ordered it can be entered into immediately.

The last point on that list is the one that costs people a night in custody. A release can be granted at eleven in the morning and not take effect until the following day because nobody could reach the surety. If you are the proposed surety, clear your calendar for the whole day and keep your phone on you.

There is a sensible safety valve. Where it is not feasible for the surety to sign the release order in front of the court, the presiding judicial officer may dispense with a physical signature, provided the officer is satisfied the surety has committed to the obligations including the financial one and understands they are bound by the terms even without signing.

Before you agree, understand what you are agreeing to. You are taking on a supervisory job. If the person breaches, you are expected to report it and to apply to be relieved. Our Ontario bail lawyers page goes through the surety role in more detail, including how to step down from it.

Reading your release order before you leave the courthouse

People walk out of 7755 Hurontario with a folded release order in a pocket and read it properly three weeks later. That is how most breach charges start. Read it in the lobby, before you leave the building, while there is still somebody standing there who can answer a question about it.

Work through it line by line and ask yourself whether you can actually live inside it. The conditions that cause the most trouble in Brampton files are the ordinary ones.

• A no-contact condition, direct or indirect. Indirect means through a friend, through a relative, through a social media account, and through a child.
• A condition not to attend a specified address. If that address is a workplace, a school or a mosque, temple, gurdwara or church you attend every week, say so at the hearing rather than after the first breach.
• A residence condition. If you are required to live at an address, you cannot stay at a friend house for a weekend without a variation.
• A curfew or house arrest, with the exceptions written down. Exceptions that exist only in your head are not exceptions.
• A weapons prohibition. This one reaches further than most people expect, and it can include items at an employer.
• Reporting, in person or by telephone, on a fixed schedule.

Breaching a release order is a separate criminal offence under section 145 of the Criminal Code. It is charged on its own, it is prosecuted on its own, and a conviction on a breach is often harder to explain away later than the original allegation. Crowns treat a breach as evidence about the second ground, which makes the next bail hearing harder.

If your charge involves a partner or a family member, there is a structural point about Brampton you should know now. Ontario runs an Integrated Domestic Violence Court, but it sits in Toronto. It is not available at 7755 Hurontario Street. That means a Brampton domestic file runs on two separate tracks in front of two different judges who do not coordinate with each other. Your criminal conditions can collide with a family court order about parenting time, and nobody in either courtroom will automatically notice. Our pages on domestic violence in Canada and on assault offences cover the criminal side, and our family law team handles the other track so the two are not working against each other.

Conditions can be varied. It takes either Crown consent or an application, and it takes a reason that is about more than inconvenience. The time to raise a condition you cannot live with is at the hearing, not after you have broken it.

Getting disclosure from the Brampton Crown and from the PPSC

Disclosure is the Crown case against you. You are entitled to it, and nothing sensible happens in your file until it arrives. In Brampton the request goes to one of two offices, and sending it to the wrong one wastes weeks.

For a charge under the Criminal Code or the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the request goes to the provincial Crown at virtualcrownbrampton@ontario.ca. Peel Regional Police sets out the fallback for anyone who cannot use that route. If you do not have photo identification or access to a secure personal email address, call the Brampton Crown Attorney office at 905-456-4777 and ask them to arrange disclosure another way. Ask for the Crown screening form at the same time. The screening form is the position the office has taken on your file, and duty counsel will want to see it before advising you.

For a charge under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, or another federal offence such as an excise or income tax matter, the request goes to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada at PPSCBramptonSPPC@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca. The Brampton PPSC telephone number is 905-454-2424, and the Ontario Court of Justice asks callers to leave a name and a court date.

Court offices at both addresses run Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but counter service is narrower than that. The counters are open from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and again from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Arriving at 1:00 p.m. on a lunch break is the single most common wasted trip to that building.

If you are a complainant or a witness rather than the accused, the Victim/Witness Assistance Program at the courthouse can be reached at 905-456-4797 or toll free at 1-866-788-5678.

Disclosure in a document-heavy case is its own exercise. A commercial fraud file can arrive as tens of thousands of pages of banking records, and reviewing it properly is most of the defence. Our fraud defence page explains how we work through that volume and what we look for in it.

Why drug charges follow a different track in Brampton

A Controlled Drugs and Substances Act charge laid in Brampton does not go where a Criminal Code charge goes. Peel Regional Police states it directly. Drug offences fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and are dealt with by the Federal Division of the Ontario Court of Justice. The prosecutor is not the provincial Crown at all. It is the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

That single fact has consequences that catch people out every week at 7755 Hurontario Street.

• Your disclosure request goes to a different mailbox and a different telephone number. Sending it to the provincial Crown gets you nothing but a delay.
• Your case management appearances happen in different courtrooms on different days. Federal case management runs in courtroom 104 on Thursdays. The federal self-represented and early intervention list runs in courtroom 302 on Wednesdays.
• Resolution discussions run on federal prosecution policy, not provincial policy. The two are not the same, and an outcome that is routine on a provincial file may not be available on a federal one.
• If your matter is a project prosecution, a national security file or a regulatory case, the Ontario Court of Justice counts it as a specialized prosecution team matter for bail purposes, which can qualify a hearing as a complex bail matter.

Where a person faces a provincial file and a federal file at the same time, which happens often when a search turns up both a weapon and a quantity of a controlled substance, the two matters can end up in different courtrooms on different days in front of different prosecutors. Getting them synchronised takes deliberate work by counsel. It does not happen on its own.

A search is very often the entire case. Where the drugs were found, what the officer knew before the search, whether the warrant was properly obtained, and whether the detention that led to the search was lawful are usually far more productive questions than anything about the substance itself. Those are section 8 and section 9 Charter arguments, and they are won or lost on the fine detail of the officer notes and the information to obtain.

The same search and detention analysis drives most firearm files. If a weapon was seized in the same incident, our weapons defence page sets out how those arguments are built.

Case management court at 7755 Hurontario Street, courtroom by courtroom

Between your first appearance and your trial date there is a stretch of the case that has no drama in it at all. It is called case management, or set date court, or remand court, depending on who is speaking. Brampton runs it across five courtrooms, and which one you belong in depends on three things. Whether you are an adult or a young person. Whether the charge is provincial or federal. And whether a lawyer is appearing for you.

Peel Regional Police publishes the schedule, and the times below apply to people who do not have a lawyer appearing for them. If counsel is on the record, counsel attends and in most cases you do not.

Courtroom	What runs there	Days	When to attend if you have no lawyer appearing
103	Plea Court	Published by the Ontario Court of Justice	As directed on your paperwork
104	Youth Criminal Justice Act matters	Tuesday and Wednesday	Surnames A to Z at 11:45 a.m.
104	Federal case management	Thursday	A to M at 10:15 a.m. and N to Z at 11:45 a.m.
204	Provincial adult criminal case management, retained counsel matters	Monday to Friday	A to E at 9:00 a.m., F to J at 10:00 a.m., K to O at 11:30 a.m., P to T at 2:15 p.m., U to Z at 3:30 p.m.
302	Federal self-represented and early intervention	Wednesday	A to M at 10:15 a.m. and N to Z at 11:30 a.m.
307	Provincial adult criminal case management, self-represented matters	Monday to Friday	A to H at 10:00 a.m., I to P at 12:00 p.m., Q to Z at 2:15 p.m.

Two practical points come out of that grid. The first is that courtroom 204 is the retained counsel room and courtroom 307 is the self-represented room. Retaining a lawyer physically moves your matter to a different list with a different rhythm. The second is that the surname bands are real. If your name begins with a letter near the end of the alphabet and you are self-represented, your matter is not called until the afternoon no matter how early you sign in.

Courtroom 103 is Plea Court. The Ontario Court of Justice publishes separate connection details for it. Do not resolve a matter in that room without advice. A plea entered to get the day over with is the single most expensive decision available in the building, and it is the one we are asked to undo most often.

These listings are revised without notice. Confirm the current courtroom and time against the Peel Regional Police court information page or the Ontario Court of Justice Brampton page on the morning of your appearance.

Attending your remand date remotely instead of in person

For those five case management courtrooms, Peel Regional Police is unusually blunt about it. Do not attend the courthouse in person. You cannot enter the building for these appearances. You attend over the internet or by telephone.

That instruction surprises people who have taken a day off work and driven to Hurontario Street expecting to sit on a bench. It is a genuine change in how the front end of a Brampton criminal case runs, and it is worth planning around rather than discovering on the morning.

The toll free dial-in number published for these courtrooms is 1-855-703-8985. Whether you join by video or by telephone you need a meeting identifier and a passcode for your specific courtroom. Those rotate, so we deliberately do not reprint them here. Take them from the current Peel Regional Police court information page or the Ontario Court of Justice Brampton page on the day, not from a screenshot a friend sent you last month.

A few things make the difference between a remote appearance that works and one that ends in a bench warrant.

• Join early. Your matter is called inside a block, and the block moves faster than you expect.
• Set your display name to the name on the information, spelled the way the court has it. Clerks are matching names against a list.
• Charge the phone. A dead battery in the middle of a list is treated as a failure to attend.
• Find a quiet room. Do not join from a car in motion and do not join from a workplace floor.
• Stay connected after your matter is spoken to until you are told you are excused.

Counsel appearances in courtroom 104 run on a published sign-up structure rather than a surname band. The Ontario Court of Justice sets out the tiers for that room. All counsel and duty counsel with matters in the court are at 9:00 a.m. Self-represented tiers run at 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Duty counsel and enhanced designations are at 3:30 p.m. There are health breaks at 11:00 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. and a lunch break at 1:00 p.m.

If you cannot get online at all, say so before the date rather than after it. Legal Aid Ontario and duty counsel can be reached at 1-800-668-8258, and the Brampton courthouse itself can be reached at Brampton.OCJ.courts@ontario.ca or 905-456-4700. Duty counsel asks to be contacted well in advance and cannot guarantee same-day assistance.

The judicial pre-trial, where most Brampton cases actually turn

Ask a defence lawyer where a criminal case is really decided and most will not say the trial. They will say the judicial pre-trial. It is a meeting between a judge, the Crown and defence counsel, held off the record, where the three of them speak candidly about what the case is worth and what it needs.

The conversation is short and it is direct. Which counts survive. Which are duplicative. What the realistic sentencing range is if there is a plea. Whether a Charter application is going to be run and how long it will take. Whether the Crown is prepared to withdraw anything in exchange for a peace bond or a diversion outcome. How many days the trial needs and how many witnesses are genuinely required.

In the Superior Court of Justice at Brampton, judicial pre-trials are one of the events scheduled through the trial office at scjtrialofficebrampton@ontario.ca, alongside trials, bail hearings and reviews, 90-day detention review hearings, criminal applications and motions, and assignment court. In the Ontario Court of Justice the pre-trial runs under the criminal rules of that court.

A pre-trial is only as good as the preparation behind it. The version that wastes everyone time is the one where counsel has not read the disclosure and cannot answer a question about the third officer notes. The version that changes a case is the one where defence counsel arrives with a specific, evidenced position. That the identification evidence rests on a single description given at night from forty metres. That the complainant statement and the 911 recording say different things about the sequence. That the officer grounds for the search do not survive contact with the information to obtain.

Judges say things at a pre-trial they will never say in open court, and Crowns move positions there that they would not move in front of a courtroom. That is the point of the process. It is also why the pre-trial is not a good place to be representing yourself. The room runs on shorthand built out of the local sentencing range and the local Crown policy, and a person who does not know that shorthand cannot use it.

Some allegation types turn almost entirely on how the pre-trial is handled, because the collateral consequences of a conviction are so much worse than the sentence. Our pages on sexual offences and assault offences set out what we take into those meetings.

Choosing the Ontario Court of Justice or the Superior Court

Brampton is convenient in one respect. Both levels of trial court sit in the same building. The Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice are both at 7755 Hurontario Street, so an election does not mean a different address or a different city.

Whether you get a choice at all depends on how the offence is classified. Summary conviction matters stay in the Ontario Court of Justice. Straight indictable matters at the most serious end go to the Superior Court. In between sits a large group of offences where the Crown elects to proceed by indictment and you then elect your mode of trial. That election is between a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice, a judge of the Superior Court sitting alone, or a judge and jury in the Superior Court.

This is not a matter of taste. The considerations are concrete.

• A jury is a different audience from a judge. Some defences land better with twelve people and some land better with one.
• Superior Court procedure is heavier. Written applications, formal notice periods and a more demanding record are the norm.
• The ceiling under the Jordan framework is different, which matters if delay is already an issue in your file.
• Preliminary inquiries are now available only for the most serious offences, so the old assumption that electing up buys you a preview of the Crown case does not hold.
• Superior Court trial dates in a busy region are further out than Ontario Court dates.

The Superior Court criminal scheduling office at Brampton, reachable at scjtrialofficebrampton@ontario.ca, handles trials, judicial pre-trials, bail hearings and bail reviews, 90-day detention review hearings, criminal applications and motions, and assignment court and trial scheduling court. That mailbox is the single point of contact for all of it.

One thing the Superior Court at Brampton does not do in the same building is small claims. The Superior Court small claims counter is at 7765 Hurontario Street, reachable at BramptonSCC@ontario.ca or 905-456-4701. It has nothing to do with a criminal charge, and people are sent there by mistake often enough that it is worth saying.

Impaired driving files are a useful example of why the election question is not academic. The available defences, the licence consequences and the sentencing floor all interact with the level of court and the Crown election. Our impaired driving page goes through that interaction in detail.

Trial scheduling and the pressure of the Jordan clock

Since the Supreme Court decision in R v Jordan there has been a hard outer limit on how long a criminal case may take. It is eighteen months from charge to the anticipated end of trial in the Ontario Court of Justice, and thirty months in the Superior Court of Justice. Delay caused by the defence comes off the total. Beyond the ceiling, the burden shifts and a stay becomes a live possibility.

That clock shapes a Brampton file more than any other single factor. It is why the assignment court and trial scheduling court exist, and it is why the Superior Court trial office at Brampton treats scheduling as a distinct function with its own mailbox.

The practical consequences are worth spelling out, because they are counterintuitive.

• Every adjournment you ask for is scrutinised, and most of it is attributed to you.
• Waiting a few months before retaining counsel does not stop the clock. It usually costs you time you cannot get back.
• Booking a trial date that you are not actually ready for produces an adjournment on the day and defence delay attached to it.
• A late Charter application that forces the trial to be re-set can be counted against you rather than for you.
• Running the clock down on purpose is a losing strategy. Courts see it, and the caselaw on defence delay is unforgiving.

The honest version of the trade-off is this. Doing the case properly takes time. Being ready when the date arrives is what keeps that time on the right side of the ledger. That means disclosure requested early, Charter notice filed on schedule, expert reports commissioned before the trial date rather than after, and a realistic trial estimate given at the pre-trial rather than an optimistic one.

Files with seized firearms or with forensic analysis in them are the ones most likely to blow through an estimate, because the disclosure arrives in stages and the reports come late. If that describes your matter, our weapons defence page explains how we front-load the work so that the trial date survives contact with reality.

Youth charges under the Youth Criminal Justice Act in Peel

Criminal youth is one of the court types listed at 7755 Hurontario Street, and youth matters have their own case management slot. Courtroom 104 runs Youth Criminal Justice Act matters on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and where a young person has no lawyer appearing for them the published attendance time is 11:45 a.m. regardless of surname.

Before any of that happens there is a decision point most parents do not know exists. Peel Regional Police operates a Pre-Charge Diversion Referral Program that allows an arrested young person to accept responsibility and complete an educational program instead of being charged. The officer weighs four things when deciding whether to recommend it.

• Whether the youth has been charged before.
• Whether the offence is non-violent and minor in nature.
• Whether this kind of outcome will hold the youth accountable for what they did.
• Whether a parent or guardian has been notified and agrees to the youth taking part.

A recommendation is not the end of it. An approved community agency then considers the referral and rules on whether it is appropriate. The window for this is narrow and it closes once charges are laid, which is why the first phone call after a youth arrest in Brampton matters so much.

If a young person is held, the Practice Direction Regarding Bail Hearings contains a provision aimed squarely at them. Where there is no youth detention facility in the community, all reasonable efforts should be made to address bail at the first appearance while the young person is still close to home. Adjournments hit young people harder, and the Court says so in writing.

The Youth Criminal Justice Act runs on different principles from the adult system. Sentencing is built around rehabilitation and reintegration rather than denunciation. Records are subject to access periods and are not simply public. Publication of identifying information about a young person is restricted. A parent has a right to notice. Statements taken from a young person are subject to strict requirements about the explanation of rights and the opportunity to consult a parent or a lawyer, and statements are excluded when those requirements are not met.

That last point does a great deal of work in practice. A rushed statement taken at the side of a road from a frightened sixteen year old is frequently the strongest part of the Crown case and the most vulnerable.

Provincial offences at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard are a separate system

Not every charge laid in Brampton is a criminal charge, and the ones that are not go to a completely different building run by a completely different body. The Ontario Court of Justice Provincial Offences Court sits at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, Brampton L6Y 5L7. The court office number is 905-450-4770, the fax is 905-450-4794, the TTY line is 905-874-2130, and the email is provincialoffencescourt@brampton.ca. The prosecution office is on the second floor of the same building at 905-450-7211. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding holidays. The building is a scent-free environment.

The City of Brampton runs this, not the province. The City sets trials, prosecutes certain provincial offences, records the proceedings and receives fine payments for charges laid by the police services and enforcement agencies working in the region. Highway Traffic Act, Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act, Trespass to Property Act, Liquor Licence Act, municipal by-laws and minor federal offences all land there.

Tickets come in two shapes and the difference is the whole point.

• A Part I offence notice carries a maximum fine of five hundred dollars and no jail sentence. You have fifteen days to pay, to request an early resolution meeting with the prosecutor, or to request a trial.
• A Part III summons is used where the maximum penalty is greater than a five hundred dollar fine, and a jail sentence is possible. If you do not attend and neither does your agent or counsel, a warrant can be issued for your arrest.

Brampton also runs an Administrative Penalty System, which sits outside the court entirely and covers by-law matters and automated speed enforcement. If you get a penalty notice you can pay it or request a screening review. If you disagree with the screening officer decision, you have fifteen days to appeal to a hearing review meeting. After that meeting, the hearing officer decision is final. There is no further appeal into the court system, which is a genuine trade-off for the speed of the process.

The line people get wrong is this one. A provincial offence conviction is not a criminal record. A Criminal Code driving charge is an entirely different animal, it is prosecuted at 7755 Hurontario Street rather than at 5 Ray Lawson Boulevard, and a conviction is a criminal record. If your charge is dangerous driving or a criminal offence connected to a collision, see our dangerous driving defence page. Where alcohol or drugs are alleged, the licence and insurance consequences start before the case is over and are covered on our impaired driving page.

What a Toronto-based defence lawyer does for a Brampton case

Start with the honest part. Kazandji Law has no office in Brampton. Our offices are at 180 John Street, Unit 320 in Toronto, at 7191 Yonge Street, Suite 310 in Thornhill, at 70 Forest Manor Road, Unit 4B in North York, and at 466 Speers Road in Oakville. If a firm tells you that being physically headquartered a few blocks from a courthouse is what wins cases there, ask them what specifically it changes. On a Brampton file the honest answer is less than you would think, and here is why.

Most of the front end of a Brampton case no longer happens in the building at all. Case management runs remotely across courtrooms 104, 204, 302 and 307, and Peel Regional Police instructs people not to attend in person for those appearances. Disclosure is requested by email. Superior Court criminal scheduling runs through a single mailbox. Legal documents from law firms and process servers are not delivered to a division at all, they go to Peel Regional Police corporate headquarters at 7150 Mississauga Road in Mississauga, where the Summons Unit can be reached at 905-453-2121 extension 4317.

What actually changes outcomes is different, and it is portable.

• Getting on the record early, so your matter moves to courtroom 204 with counsel appearing rather than sitting in the self-represented list in courtroom 307.
• Sending the disclosure request to the right office on day one, which in Brampton means knowing whether your prosecutor is the provincial Crown or the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
• Preparing a surety properly so the declaration is sworn, filed and unchallenged before the hearing starts, which is exactly what the Practice Direction now expects.
• Arriving at the judicial pre-trial having read every page, with a position the judge can actually test.
• Protecting the Jordan clock by being ready on the date rather than asking for time.
• Obtaining a designation so you are not losing a day of work for appearances that do not need you.

We appear across the western GTA, so a Brampton charge frequently sits alongside a matter in a neighbouring jurisdiction. If your file crosses a boundary, the parallel walkthroughs are on our Mississauga, Etobicoke and Bolton pages.

The firm was founded by Fadi Matthew Kazandji, and criminal defence is what the practice is built around. A first consultation costs nothing and is usually the fastest way to find out whether your case is as bad as it feels at two in the morning. In our experience it is very often not.

This page is general information about how criminal cases are handled in Brampton, Ontario. It is not legal advice and it does not create a lawyer and client relationship. Court listings, courtroom assignments, attendance times and contact details change without notice, so confirm anything time sensitive against the Ontario Court of Justice, the Superior Court of Justice, Peel Regional Police or the City of Brampton before you rely on it. Last verified 14 September 2026.