What is the difference between loss of jurisdiction over the person and over the offence?

84. I should note in passing that the distinction which formerly existed between loss of jurisdiction over the person and over the offence has been questioned (Doyle v. The Queen, 1976 CanLII 11 (SCC), [1977] 1 S.C.R. 597). That distinction is not at issue here.

85. To go back to the question at issue, Trenholm v. Attorney‑General of Ontario, 1940 CanLII 2 (SCC), [1940] S.C.R. 301, established that a procedural defect exists when the date of the adjournment or remand passes "without anything happening". This is the case here, as nothing happened at Val d'Or on June 10, 1981, the date and place to which the trial was adjourned and on which it was to be held, the hearing in Montréal on the same day having been held without jurisdiction of the judge or of the tribunal.