What is the test for adjourning a trial?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Coban v. Declare, 2020 ONSC 5580 (CanLII):
In Louis v. Poitras, I reviewed the relevant case law and stated that it had to be reconsidered in the light of the present exceptional circumstances. I concluded that unreasonable delay could, by itself, meet the burden of showing that justice to the parties will be better served by the discharge of the jury. In that case, all parties were ready to proceed to trial and the delay of seven years was considered too great to warrant any further postponement to an unknown date. Adjournment of a trial
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