Article 167. Connection and separation of several claims of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. A judge shall separate one or more of the claims joined by the plaintiff into separate proceedings if separate consideration of the claims would be more appropriate.
2. If several plaintiffs or several defendants present claims, the judge has the right to separate one or more claims into separate proceedings if he finds it more appropriate to consider the claims separately.
3. A judge, having established that there are several homogeneous cases in the proceedings of this court involving the same parties, or several cases involving claims by one plaintiff against different defendants or different plaintiffs against the same defendant, has the right to combine these cases at his discretion or at the request of the parties into one proceeding for joint consideration, if it recognizes that such an association would be appropriate.
4. The term of consideration of the case after the allocation of one claim from another is calculated from the date of completion of the preparation of the case for trial on the allocated claim.
The term of consideration of the case after the cases are combined into one proceeding is calculated from the date of completion of the preparation of the case for trial at the request stated earlier.
5. A ruling on the connection or separation of several claims is not subject to appeal or review at the request of the prosecutor. Arguments about disagreement with the definition may be indicated in the appeal, the prosecutor's petition.
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