Rejection of venue transfer request for pending civil case despite scheduled hearing date

In a final, non-appealable decision, the High Court of Cassation and Justice rejected the motion filed by the petitioning party to transfer the venue of a pending civil case from the court of first instance. The dispute concerned a procedural request for change of venue (strămutare) for a specific docket, where the petitioning party argued for a transfer based on reasons presented in writing and verbally, while the prosecutor opposed the motion citing verbal arguments. The court’s decisive rationale relied on the verification of the electronic court registry, which indicated that the transferred case was already scheduled for a hearing on a specific date, rendering the request for venue change inadmissible or unnecessary under the applicable procedural rules for judicial transfers.