Jurisdictional declination for civil case transfer requests based on legitimate suspicion under the new Code of Civil Procedure

The Supreme Court of Romania (High Court of Cassation and Justice) declined jurisdiction, ruling that the Court of Appeal Oradea is the competent authority to resolve the transfer request for Case No. 8945/111/2013, thereby directing the parties to seek relief from the appellate level; the underlying dispute concerned a civil action filed after the enactment of the new Civil Procedure Code, specifically involving a request to transfer the case from the Bihor District Court (Tribunal) to another instance due to legitimate suspicion; the decisive legal basis for this jurisdictional determination was Article 142(1) of the Civil Procedure Code, which mandates that transfer requests based on legitimate suspicion against a lower court within its circuit are under the exclusive competence of the appellate court.