Law360 Canada ( May 6, 2022, 2:15 PM EDT) -- Appeal by the Crown from a decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal that confirmed a stay of proceedings against JF. In 2011, JF was charged with seven counts involving sexual offences against his daughter. His trial began in 2013 and completed in 2016. In 2017, JF was acquitted on all counts. In 2018, the Quebec Court of Appeal set aside the acquittals and ordered a new trial. Before the retrial began, JF filed a motion for a stay of proceedings for unreasonable delay. The trial judge combined the delays for the first trial and the retrial and found JF’s s. 11(b) Charter right had been infringed. The Court of Appeal found the Crown had not rebutted the presumption that the total delay between the charges and the end of the argument at the first trial was unreasonable....