Request for change of venue dismissed due to impending hearing date

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the application for venue transfer (strămutare) filed by the plaintiff regarding Case No. 4284/281/2006 of the Prahova Court of Appeal, thereby upholding the current jurisdiction and rendering the decision final without any further appeal. The dispute concerned a procedural request to move the civil case to a different court, where the applicant simultaneously requested the case to be tried in absentia, but the Public Prosecutor opposed the transfer. The decisive legal basis for the dismissal was the procedural requirement that a case scheduled for hearing on the date of the application (June 19, 2014) is not eligible for immediate venue transfer under the applicable civil procedure codes, as the timing of the request conflicted with the imminent hearing schedule.