Can't restore from case sensitive TM back-up

I'm in the final stages of restoring my system following a complete rebuild, and am having an issue stop me from restoring all of the files from my TM backup.
Prior to the rebuild it appears that I had my main drive formatted as Extended (case sensitive). Likewise, my TM backup drive was also formatted as case sensitive.
Since the rebuild my main drive is now not formatted as case sensitive, and while I can restore most of the files from the TM backup, there are a small number that won't restore, giving the error message:
+"You cannot copy 'ABCDE' to the destination because its name is the same as the name of an item on the destination, except for the case of some characters."+
As I'm restoring to what was an erased drive, the files can't already exist somewhere else on the drive. Also, it seems odd that most files aren't affected by this, while some are - both data and applications.
I've tried to restore to another case sensitive drive, change the file name something unique so that I could then copy to the non-case sensitive drive, but in the process of copying, the same message appears and the copy fails.
Is there some way to restore individual files from a case sensitive TM backup to a non-case sensitive drive, or to change whatever is causing this within Terminal (note that I'm a complete Terminal novice)
Thanks in advance.

+"You cannot copy 'ABCDE' to the destination because its name is the same as the name of an item on the destination, except for the case of some characters."+
As I'm restoring to what was an erased drive, the files can't already exist somewhere else on the drive.
The files weren't on the drive before the restore started. The restore created them. If the case-sensitive backup has multiple files of the same name (except for case) in a folder, the first will be restored, then you will get the error message when it tries to copy the second.
Also, it seems odd that most files aren't affected by this, while some are - both data and applications.
Most files have different names.

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