Does a misspelled debtor name on a PPR registration invalidate that registration? Until a recent decision was released by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal, there was a balanced judicial division among Canadian jurisdictions on that question.

In Ontario and New Brunswick, courts had said that if a serial number was correctly stated on a registration, a misspelled debtor name would not invalidate the registration. Alberta and Saskatchewan courts, on the other hand, had cut the other way; a misspelled debtor name invalidated the registration, notwithstanding a correctly-stated serial number.

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