Declining Supreme Court jurisdiction over district court transfer petition under Article 142(1) of the Civil Procedure Code
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AI generatedThe High Court of Cassation and Justice declined jurisdiction, ordering that the petition to transfer Case No. 27123/280/2014 be referred to the Pitești Court of Appeal, thereby finding that the petitioning party’s request was not within the Supreme Court’s purview. The dispute concerned a jurisdictional challenge filed by a petitioner against a civil case pending before the Pitești District Court, initiated after the entry into force of the new Civil Procedure Code. Relying on Article 142(1) of the Civil Procedure Code, which assigns competence for transfer requests based on legitimate suspicion to the Court of Appeal when the originating instance is a district or district court within its circuit, the Supreme Court determined it lacked subject-matter competence to adjudicate the transfer and without establishing that the statutory condition for its own intervention was met.
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AI generatedart. 142 alin. (1) C. proc. civ; Declining Supreme Court jurisdiction over district court transfer petition under Article 142(1) of the Civil Procedure Code: 27123/280/2014 be referred to the Pitești Court of Appeal, thereby finding that the petitioning party’s request was not within the Supreme Court’s purview. The dispute concerned a jurisdictional challenge filed by a petitioner against a civil case pending before the Pitești District Court, initiated after the entry into force of the new Civil Procedure Code. Relying on Article 142(1) of the Civil Procedure Code, which assigns competence for transfer requests based on legitimate suspicion to the Court of Appeal when the originating instance is a district or district court within its circuit, the Supreme Court determined it lacked subject-matter competence to adjudicate the transfer and without establishing that the statutory condition for its own intervention was met.
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AI generatedServes as the decisive legal basis for declining competence, establishing that the Court of Appeal, rather than the Supreme Court, has jurisdiction to rule on the request for the transfer of the case.
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Constatând că se solicită strămutarea unui dosar aflat pe rolul Judecătoriei Piteşti, având ca obiect o acţiune formulată după data intrării în vigoare a Legii nr. 134/2010 privind noul Cod de procedură civilă, în raport de dispoziţiile art. 142 alin. (1) C. proc. civ., potrivit cărora „cererea de strămutare întemeiată pe motiv de bănuială legitimă este de competenţa curţii de apel, dacă instanţa de la care se cere strămutarea este o judecătorie sau un tribunal din circumscripţia acesteia”.
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Declină competenţa de soluţionare a cererii de strămutare a Dosarului nr. 27123/280/2014 al Judecătoriei Piteşti, formulată de petentul N.M., în favoarea Curţii de Apel Piteşti.
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Pronunţată în şedinţă publică, astăzi 24 septembrie 2015.