R v Williamson is a leading
Supreme Court of Canada
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case in which the Court ruled that Section 3 the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibited undue delays in
criminal proceedings. The right to be tried within reasonable time was, in Williamson's case, delayed nearly three years between the laying of charges and the end of trial. The justices weighed whether the accused’s right to be tried within reasonable time under s. 11(b) of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was infringed, and found a new framework for determining s. 11(b) infringement.
The Court used the
ratio decidendi of ''
R v Jordan (2016)
''R. v. Jordan'' was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which rejected the framework traditionally used to determine whether an accused was tried within a reasonable time under section 11(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms an ...
''.
Background
The case involved the sexual abuse of a minor (Ruttan) at the hands of a
Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to:
*Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
*Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
**Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950)
**Queen's University of Belfast ...
student (Williamson) who was given authority over him by the judiciary in Kingston.
In the summer of 2017, Ruttan obtained permission from the Court for ''The Globe and Mail'' to disclose his name.
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