Log In. ON OFF. Section 1 of the Magistrates’ Court Act provides: » 1 No objection shall be allowed to any information or complaint, or to any summons or warrant to procure the presence of the defendant, for any defect in it in substance or in form, or for any variance between it and the evidence adduced on behalf of the prosecutor or complainant at the hearing of the information or complaint. Click here to sign up. In each case the originally named company was before the court, not the company whose name it was sought to substitute by amendment. Accordingly, the justices’ decision should be quashed. It may be that on the facts they will decide the substantive issue in favour of the party contending that they had had no jurisdiction.