After an extended summer hiatus, your favourite truncated review service returns. Catching you up on the Supreme Court of Canada's offerings in digestible fashion: All SCC Criminal Law decisions since Vincenzo Rondinelli's last update.

Since the Supreme Court's ruling in R v Summers, it is uncontroversial that offenders are generally entitled to 1.5 days credit for every day of pre-trial custody. What do offenders have to do to lose that enhanced credit? Assistant Crown Attorney Grace Hession David reviews the latest case law.

This month from the Ontario Court of Appeal: The Court's first real treatment of the Jordan 11(b) framework, allowing fresh evidence to overturn a murder verdict, and a trial counsel whose incompetence tainted the entire proceeding, requiring a new trial.

In R v Jordan, the majority of the Supreme Court provided a completely new test to protect the right to trial within a reasonable time under section 11(b) of the Charter. But is the new test really as different from the old test as the Court says? Chair of the OBA Criminal Justice Section Jody Berkes investigates without delay.

Education Law Section Chair Tom McRae welcomes readers to the newsletter and outlines the Section's upcoming programs and activities

The SCC calls on all participants of Canada's criminal justice system to reject 'culture of complacency and delay' and work toward ensuring timely justice.