Supreme Court Judgments

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R. v. Allen

Collection Supreme Court Judgments
Date 1997-10-17
Report [1997] 3 SCR 700
Case number 25549
Judges Sopinka, John; Gonthier, Charles Doherty; Cory, Peter deCarteret; McLachlin, Beverley; Major, John C.
On appeal from Ontario
Subjects Constitutional law
Notes SCC Case Information: 25549

Decision Content

R. v. Allen, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 700

 

Hopeton Allen                                                                                    Appellant

 

v.

 

Her Majesty The Queen                                                                   Respondent

 

Indexed as:  R. v. Allen

 

File No.:  25549.

 

1997:  October 17.

 

Present:  Sopinka, Gonthier, Cory, McLachlin and Major JJ.

 

on appeal from the court of appeal for ontario

 

Constitutional law ‑‑ Charter of Rights  ‑‑ Trial within reasonable time ‑‑ Delay not occasioned by scarcity of judicial resources ‑‑ Whether stay of proceedings appropriate.

 

APPEAL from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal (1996), 92 O.A.C. 345, 110 C.C.C. (3d) 331, 1 C.R. (5th) 347, [1996] O.J. 3175, allowing an appeal from  a  judgment of Ferguson J. granting a stay of proceedings.  Appeal dismissed.

 

Peter Rosenthal and Charles C. Roach, for the appellant.

 

David Butt, for the respondent.

 

//Sopinka J.//

 

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

 

1                 Sopinka J. -- We agree with the reasons of Doherty J.A. (1996), 92 O.A.C. 345, in the Court of Appeal.  Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

 

Judgment accordingly.

 

Solicitors for the appellant:  Roach, Schwartz & Associates, Toronto.

 

Solicitor for the respondent:  The Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto.

 

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