It happened more than a year after the Supreme Court of Canada's Jordan decision set strict deadlines for trials. Blair Crew, a lawyer and part-time University of Ottawa law professor, said the Jordan ruling shouldn't apply to parking tickets. Tickets totalled over $2K in revenueThe 14 tickets tossed out at parking court in Ottawa on July 19 totalled more than $2,000 in lost parking revenue. The City of Ottawa said court delays that led to 14 parking tickets being thrown out are rare. Timeline shouldn't be as strictLegal experts have mixed reactions to the Jordan decision being used on tickets and fines.

Source: CBC News August 02, 2017 09:00 UTC