Jurisdiction transfer based on legitimate suspicion of bias

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) granted the applicant's request to transfer jurisdiction, ordering that the case pending before the Bacău Court of Appeal be remanded to the Târgu Mureş Court of Appeal, with all acts performed thus far preserved. This procedural decision resolved a motion filed by a party in a 2015 case against the Bacău Court of Appeal, seeking to avoid potential bias or improper local influence. The court relied on the Romanian Civil Procedure Code, specifically Articles 140(1) and (2), determining that legitimate grounds of suspicion existed to justify moving the trial venue for impartiality.