Posted: Dec 18, 2020 12:36 PM AT | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
The effort to schedule jury trials in the Halifax area resumed Friday. (Craig Paisley/CBC)
The delicate balancing act required to schedule jury trials in the Halifax area resumed Friday.
Dozens of trials were cancelled when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March. Since then, additional cases have made their way through the lower courts and are now awaiting scheduling as well.
Jury trials cannot be held in The Law Courts in downtown Halifax because the building does not meet pandemic restrictions on crowd sizes. Jury selection requires hundreds of people to gather.
Two alternate courtrooms are being built in the Burnside Industrial Park in Dartmouth but won t be ready until March.
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