An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that a 44-month period from the time charges were laid until the expected end of trial is not unreasonable, in part because it is a rare prosecution under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Justice Marc Labrosse in R. v. Barra and Govindia also concluded that 30 months is still the Jordan threshold in Superior Court when there is a preferred indictment and no preliminary hearing.

The dismissal of the defence Charter motion was issued in the prosecution of Robert Barra and Shailesh Govindia. They are alleged to have been part of an unsuccessful scheme by CryptoMetrics Inc. and its Canadian subsidiary to bribe Air India officials into awarding the company a lucrative biometric recognition contract. The former chief operating officer of the company was charged with the two other defendants in June 2014 and is being tried separately.