Denial of inter-jurisdictional transfer of pending civil case due to scheduled hearing date

The High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania dismissed the request for the transfer of jurisdiction (strămutarea pricinii) filed by a petitioner regarding a civil case pending before the Botoșani Court of Appeal, ruling without possibility of appeal. The dispute concerned a procedural request to move the proceedings from the court of first instance to a different competent court, with the petitioner citing both written and verbal grounds, while the public prosecutor opposed the transfer. The court’s decision rested on the procedural findings that the case was already scheduled for a hearing date of September 26, 2012, per the computerized court registry, and after analyzing the request, the court determined that the conditions for a jurisdictional transfer were not met, thereby upholding the original court's jurisdiction over the matter.