Despite the overwhelming barrage of news coming from the U.S., there have been plenty of important cases and stories in criminal law here in Canada. News: Toronto citizen Waseed Khan filmed the arrest and tasing of a man by the Toronto Police and was told by police...
Month: January 2017
Justice Denied: Delay in Criminal Court and the Right to a Speedy Trial
It has now been just over six months since one of the most important cases of 2016, R v. Jordan, was released. In it, the Supreme Court of Canada established a presumptive ceiling of 18 months delay in getting a case to trial at the provincial court level. If a case...