Toronto Star Three-Part Series on Trial Delays

This week, the Toronto Star has published a fascinating three-part series called "Justice in Turmoil" on the crisis of chronic delays in Canadian courts. The series discusses the fallout from the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2016 ruling, R v. Jordan, which set strict timelines to bring an accused person to trial.

• How an 'invented' Supreme Court ruling has rocked the Canadian justice system (March 19, 2017)
• Scrapping preliminary hearings 'not going to solve' problem of court delays (March 20, 2017)
• Defence lawyers say their ideas to speed up courts being ‘met with silence’ (March 21, 2017)