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Paragraph 11 Conjunction etc. of applications

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(1)

Where—

(a)

the same or similar questions of law or fact arise in each of two or more applications; or

(b)

two or more applications are in some way related,

the court may take any step mentioned in paragraph (2).

(2)

The steps are—

(a)

to sist a case and appoint another to proceed;

(b)

to direct that all or part of the evidence in one case is to be treated for all purposes (or for such purposes as the court may specify) as evidence in another;

(c)

to make such arrangements for cases to be joined or otherwise heard together as seem to it appropriate;

(d)

to dispose of cases together or separately, as it finds expedient.