Table 2
Cases at risk of exceeding the presumptive ceiling in adult criminal court, by province and territory, 2015/2016 to 2017/2018

Table 2
Cases at risk of exceeding the presumptive ceiling in adult criminal court, by province and territory, 2015/2016 to 2017/2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cases at risk of exceeding the presumptive ceiling in adult criminal court. The information is grouped by Province/Territory (appearing as row headers), Cases at-risk, 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 (appearing as column headers).
Province/Territory	Cases at-risk^{Table 2 Note 1}
	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018
	percentage
Canada	9.4	8.2	6.4
Newfoundland and Labrador	9.6	9.0	7.7
Prince Edward Island	6.6	4.2	1.8
Nova Scotia	13.1	11.5	8.3
New Brunswick	12.8	10.9	7.2
Ontario	7.1	7.0	6.0
Manitoba	11.9	10.1	7.9
Saskatchewan	11.0	6.2	2.7
Alberta	12.3	10.6	8.4
British Columbia	7.1	6.7	5.5
Yukon	4.9	3.1	3.6
Northwest Territories	4.3	2.9	1.7
Nunavut	6.1	6.0	3.9
Note 1 At-risk cases refer to the proportion of open cases that are potentially at risk of surpassing the presumptive limits set out in the Supreme Court of Canada’s R. v. Jordan decision in July 2016 that set time limits for the completion of criminal cases, specifically: 18 months for cases tried in provincial court; and 30 months for cases tried in superior court or in provincial court following a preliminary inquiry. Return to note 1 referrer Note: Canada excluding Quebec. Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan due to the unavailability of data. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey Workload Time Series Database, 2017/2018.

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