Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered RegulationsDespite Rules 9.01 and 9.02, if any joinder of claims or of parties may embarrass or delay the hearing of the proceeding or cause prejudice to any party or is otherwise inconvenient, the Court may order that—
(a) there be separate hearings;
(b) any claim be excluded;
(c) any party be compensated by an award of costs or otherwise for being required to attend, or be relieved from attending, any part of a hearing in which that party has no interest;
(d) any person made a party cease to be a party on condition that that party be bound by the determination of the questions in the proceeding or without any such condition.