Consumer Rights Act 2022

Transfer from Circuit Court to High Court

138. (1) If, in relation to an application under section 137 to the Circuit Court, that court becomes of the opinion, during the hearing of the application, that it is not appropriate for the Circuit Court to deal with the application, it may, if it so thinks fit, transfer the application to the High Court.

(2) Subsection (1) is without prejudice to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to determine an application under section 137 which, at the time of the making of the application, it was satisfied it had jurisdiction to deal with.

(3) Where an application is transferred to the High Court under subsection (1), the High Court shall be deemed to have made any order of a procedural nature that was made by the court from which it was transferred in the proceedings relating to the application.