English Explanatory Dictionary

Jordan rule

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rule regarding the length of a criminal court case, usually limited to eighteen or thirty months from filing charges to trial.

Word forms

Jordan rule

Etymology

From the defendant, Barrett Richard Jordan, in the Canadian criminal court case, known as R v Jordan, whose resolution, the ruling decision, that established the rule.

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