1,400 Alberta court cases at risk of being tossed over timely-trial rules

More than 1,400 cases before Alberta’s courts could be at risk of being dismissed for violating new time guidelines set out by the Supreme Court of Canada.
New information from Alberta Justice shows that 209 cases in Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench involving serious and violent crimes are among the hundreds in the province’s courts as of April 27 that could be affected by the Supreme Court’s monumental Jordan decision.  
“The numbers are definitely a con