County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981

Where proceedings commenced in wrong court

4.  Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court, the judge may either—

(a) transfer the proceedings to the court in which they ought to have been commenced; or

(b) with the consent of the parties order that the proceedings shall continue in the court in which they were commenced; or

(c) order the proceedings to be struck out, and, if it appears to the judge that the plaintiff knew or ought to have known that the proceedings should have been commenced in another court, may make such an order as to costs as he might have made if the proceedings had been heard and determined in favour of the defendant;