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24.Article 6(1) in the Regulation/Conventions may, furthermore, provide courts with cross-border jurisdiction. This Article concerns situations with multiple defendants and the possibility of hearing and determining cases together in a court for the place where any of the defendants is domiciled. A prerequisite is that “the claims are so closely connected that it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings.” The fact that this rule may provide for cross-border jurisdiction is confirmed by Swedish case law (see NJA 2001 s. 386; NJA 1999 s. 660 and RH 2001:81).s. 677