Transfer of civil jurisdiction between appellate courts under Code of Civil Procedure

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed no claims but rather granted the applicant's request, ordering the transfer of jurisdiction for Case No. 10386/62/2011 from the Bucharest Court of Appeal to the Bucharest Court of Appeal Ploiești, while preserving all previously performed procedural acts; the decision is final and without appeal. The dispute concerned a procedural motion for the transfer of venue (strămutare) for a civil case, where the applicant alleged that legal summons procedures had been properly fulfilled and the case was legally stamped, with a hearing scheduled for May 7, 2012. The court’s decisive legal basis was its inherent jurisdiction to order the transfer of a case to another court of equal rank to ensure impartiality or when specific procedural grounds are met, resulting in the admission of the motion and the redirection of the pending trial to the Ploiești Court of Appeal.