The trial of two former Hamilton paramedics charged in relation to their treatment of Good Samaritan Yosif Al-Hasnawi has been delayed another 10 months.

The judge-alone trial for Steven Snively and Christopher Marchant is now scheduled for Nov. 24. It was originally scheduled for January, then put off until April. Now November is the soonest the defence lawyers and Justice Harrison Arrell are available.

The trial is scheduled to take five weeks, which means it will likely be the end of the year before Arrell reaches a verdict.

Both paramedics appeared in court Monday, wearing suits and listening quietly as the lawyers and judge hammered out a date.

"You're entitled to a trial as soon as the court can be available," Arrell told them. "You understand if it can't get done this spring, then we can't do it until November."

"Yes, sir," they said.

"And you're agreeable to all that?

"Yes, sir."

Snively, of Hamilton, and Marchant, of Whitby, are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life for when they treated Al-Hasnawi, 19, who was shot and killed on Dec. 2, 2017.

On that Saturday evening, Al-Hasnawi had stepped outside a mosque near Main Street East and Sanford Avenue and saw what he believed were two people accosting a vulnerable older man. He called out to the two younger people, who ended up being Dale Burningsky King and James Matheson.

King and Matheson crossed the street. After a short exchange, the court heard last year, Matheson punched Al-Hasnawi in the face and the two ran. Al-Hasnawi chased them, and King fired once as he ran. The bullet hit Al-Hasnawi in the abdomen.

Last year, a jury found King not guilty of second-degree murder last year by reason of self-defence.

Witnesses at the time said paramedics and some spectators appeared to believe Al-Hasnawi had been shot with a BB gun. Witnesses said the paramedics appeared to be laughing and telling Al-Hasnawi he was overreacting.

The trial was originally scheduled for January, but was postponed when Marchant's lawyer, Jeffrey Manishen of Hamilton, and Snively's lawyer, Michael DelGobbo of St. Catharines, said they needed more to time to review material.

Prosecutor Joan Barrett, deputy director with the Crown law office at the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, and Linda Shin are the Crown attorneys in the case.