What is the delay between sworn information and reasons?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Lind, 2007 BCPC 196 (CanLII):

Based on all the authorities placed before me, I am of the view that the delay on its face from the date the information was sworn February 7, 2005 to the date of my reasons March 28, 2007, some 25½ months is of sufficient length to raise an issue as to reasonableness, and I must therefore, as in the words of Mr. Justice Sopinka in Regina v. Morin (p.17), inquire into why it took some 25½ months from charge to my reasons to determine if on the facts of this case. The accused in the first step of the Morin “test” has made out a prima facie or threshold case for unreasonable delay.

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