Orders where joinder prejudicial, &c.
12.04 Orders where joinder prejudicial, &c.
Despite rules 12.01 and 12.02, where a joinder of claims or parties may:
embarrass or delay the hearing of proceedings;
cause prejudice to a party; or
be otherwise inconvenient;
the Court may order that:
there be separate hearings; or
a claim be excluded; or
(f) a party be compensated by an award of costs or otherwise for being required to attend a part of a hearing in which the party has no interest; or
(g) a party be relieved from attending a part of a hearing in which the party has no interest; or
(h) a person joined as a party cease to be a party, with or without the condition that the person is to be bound by the determination of the questions in the proceedings.
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