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Thanks for discussion guys!
With last suggestion I could repeat the trick in this manner:

const TUint8* tempBuf_1 = &buf8[0];
TUint8* tempBuf_2 = const_cast(tempBuf_1 );
TUint16* tempBuf_3 = (TUint16*)(tempBuf_2);
TPtrC ptr16(tempBuf_3, destLength);
buf16.Copy(ptr16);

TPtr/C16

Based on how 8-bit descriptors look like in the memory I would trust that [0] is word-aligned and try
TPtrC ptr16(static_cast(&buf8[0]),buf8.Size()/2);

TPckg* classes

Note that there are the TPckg family of templated wrapper classes (TPckg, TPckgC, TPckgBuf) for packaging any fixed-size data (e.g. T class instances) in a 8-bit descriptor and extracting such packages.

Lauri