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Jordan rule
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English
Etymology
From the defendant, Barrett Richard Jordan, in the Canadian criminal court case, known as en R v Jordan (2016) R v Jordan, whose resolution, the ruling decision, that established the rule.
Noun
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en Canada crime law politics constitution human rights A rule regarding the length of a criminal court case, usually limited to eighteen or thirty months from filing charges to trial.
Further reading
en R v Jordan (2016)