Justices Act 1886

This section applies in relation to a complaint of a simple offence or breach of duty.

A court may order that 2 or more complaints against the same defendant be heard together if all the matters of complaint in the complaints are of a kind that could have been joined in 1 complaint under section 43.

Also, a court may order that 2 or more complaints against different defendants be heard together if the matters of complaint in the complaints are founded on—

substantially the same facts; or

facts so closely related that a substantial part of the facts is relevant to all the matters of complaint.