A list of some cases affected by the Supreme Court’s Jordan decision
Here are short descriptions of some cases from across Canada that have been thrown out over the timely access to justice:
Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham, a Quebecer who saw a second-degree murder charge against him stayed because of delays in getting his case to trial. The charge was stayed last April, just days before the seven-week trial on the allegation was set to begin, because a Superior Court justice ruled the case had taken too long to get to trial. Thanabalasingham was accused of stabbing his wife, Anuja Baskaran, to death in August 2012. He was the first Quebecer to have a murder charge stayed because of the Jordan ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Van Son Nguyen, arrested in January 2013 on a second-degree murder charge, was scheduled to stand trial this fall. In March, a Superior Court justice in Quebec ordered a stay after ruling the case had far exceeded the length of time within which Nguyen should have been tried for the alleged offences. A native of the United Kingdom, Nguyen was declared inadmissible in Canada and returned to England in June.