Lionel v. Officer In Charge, Meetiyagoda Police Station – sllr 1987 volume 1 page 210

Brief
In the case between Lionel (Plaintiff) and the Officer-in-Charge, Meetiyagoda Police Station (Defendant), the court addressed the issue of whether the joinder of charges for abduction (against the 1st to 6th accused) and mischief (against the 7th to 12th accused) constituted an improper misjoinder invalidating the charge sheet, and whether such misjoinder, if present, resulted in a miscarriage of justice or was a curable irregularity under section 436 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and section 111(7) of the Administration of Justice Law. The proceedings clarified that both offences concerned separate incidents but were joined on a single charge sheet. It was determined that, given no actual or possible failure of justice occurred, the misjoinder was a correctable irregularity and