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==Validity of an Information==
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| {{CanLIIR-S|Delgado|fnflt|2011 ONSC 4646 (CanLII)}}{{perONSC|Garton J}} || information was read as being sworn in 2016--nullity was overturned--mandamus ordered
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| {{CanLIIR-S|Schwark|4vmt|2001 MBQB 273 (CanLII)}}{{perMBQB|Glowacki J}} ||amendments that were not initialized did not result in a nullity.
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|{{CanLIIR-SN|Van Kralingen| [1994] OJ No 196 (C.A.)}} ||conviction was entered on an information that had no date at all--court upheld the information
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| {{CanLIIRP-S|Akey|g1ck8|1990 CanLII 6755 (ON SC)|, [1990] OJ No 2205 (Gen. Div.)}}{{perONSC|Granger J}} || information sworn “17th day of 1989,” without any reference to the month--overturned nullity--“the defect would not be one of substance as the purpose of the information would be fulfilled as it would let the accused know it was sworn before a justice of the peace within the required six months.”
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| {{CanLIIRP-S|Dean|27t5r|1985 CanLII 1142 (ABQB)|, (1985), 36 Alta. L.R. (2d) 8 (Q.B.)}}{{perABQB|McFadyen J}} ||information sworn “30th day of August A.D. 19__.” without any reference to a year--overturned nullity--information was valid
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|{{CanLIIR-SN|Platt; R v Cowan| [1981] 4 WWR 601 (Man. Q.B.)}}||information was missing a date--declared a nullity
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| {{CanLIIRP-S|Bobcaygeon|hv08z|1974 CanLII 1497 (ONCA)|, 17 CCC (2d)}}{{perONCA|Kelly JA}}||the month on the date was omitted as well as the county--declared a nullity
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| {{CanLIIR-SN|Justice of the Peace, Ex parte Robinson|[1971] OJ No 1924 (C.A.)}} ||information sworn  “A Justice of the Peace in and for the County of ___" and later saying "Province of Ontario".
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| {{CanLIIRP-S|Boutilier|htxph|1928 CanLII 528 (NS SC)|, 50 CCC 186}}{{perNSSC|O'Hearn J}}||information for an offence year of 1927 was stated as sworn in 1900 which would have been impossible--declared a nullity
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== Severance of Charges == 
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! Case !!  Summary
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| {{CanLIIR-S|IB|fx049|2013 ONSC 1652 (CanLII)}}{{perONSC|Cornell J}} || denied
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| {{CanLIIR-S|WHA|flvgm|2011 NSSC 156 (CanLII)}}{{perNSSC|Rosinski J}}|| granted
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