Transfer of venue for civil case denied due to insufficient legitimate suspicion

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the application for transfer of venue, thereby upholding the jurisdiction of the first-instance court and leaving the case in its original forum. The dispute concerned a procedural challenge to the territorial competence of the Blaj Court of Law, where a petitioner seeking the transfer of civil case no. 458/191/2012 alleged legitimate suspicion (bănuială legitimă) against the local judges, a claim supported by their legal representative but opposed by the Public Ministry, which argued for the dismissal of the request. The decisive legal basis for the denial was the High Court's assessment that the invoked grounds of legitimate suspicion were insufficient to disrupt the regular composition of the court, resulting in a final, non-appealable decision (*fără cale de atac*) that maintained the proceedings in the originally designated jurisdiction.