Bailiff's office loses bid to transfer appellate case on bias grounds

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Administrative and Fiscal Litigation Section) rejected the request by a bailiff's office to transfer (strămutare) the case file No. x/2017 pending before the Oradea Court of Appeal, Second Civil, Administrative and Fiscal Section, to another court; the decision is final and the transfer request was denied. The petitioner had sought the transfer on grounds of alleged legitimate suspicion of bias, but the Court found no such grounds existed under Article 140 of the Romanian Code of Civil Procedure, which governs the removal of a case from a court due to suspicion of partiality or other exceptional circumstances. The ruling leaves the original case to proceed in the designated appellate court and constitutes a definitive procedural disposition on the transfer motion.