What is the effect of a nine month delay in setting trials in this jurisdiction?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Chand - Reasons for Judgment, 2006 BCPC 171 (CanLII):
In Regina v. Corbet, B.C.P.C. [1995] B.C.J. No. 3045, at paragraph 6, I made these comments concerning a nine month delay in this jurisdiction: I have to say that is too long a period of time to be setting trials, but it is … perhaps the general experience now. I sat in this court when I was first appointed in 1986. I recall then we had been setting trials on criminal matters in Vancouver something like three or four months off….
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