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  • 11 Apr 2022

    香港特別行政區 訴 梁德煌及另八人

    Citation
    [2022] HKDC 292
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCC115/2021

    The court allowed consolidation of DCCC113/2021 and DCCC116/2021 because the two cases involved similar issues and evidence, suitable court accommodation was likely available for the proposed 2023 window, defendants had sufficient time to obtain or be assigned new counsel if necessary and prejudice was not demonstrated; the court refused consolidation of DCCC115/2021, DCCC112/2021 and DCCC114/2021 because the existing pragmatic split and scheduled resources provided no sufficient reason to rearrange milestone dates and consolidation would unduly disrupt allocations and cause unjustified preju…