“…by the flexible deployment of judges to sit in both the county court and the FTT; but even that has created its own problems. In Behjat v Crescent Trustees Ltd [2022] UKUT 115 (LC), [2022] L & TR 23 an order of the FTT purporting to strike out a county court claim was set aside for lack of jurisdiction.…”
“…It is also to be noted that Judge Elizabeth Cooke appears to have taken the same view as Mr Rodger in Behjat v Crescent Trustees Ltd [2022] UKUT 115 (LC). Speaking of a case in which proceedings had been begun in the County Court, transferred to the FTT and returned to the County Court, Judge Cooke referred in p…”