Transfer of venue denied for failure to show statutory grounds; case remains in Neamț tribunal.

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Secția I civilă) rejected the applicants' request for the transfer (strămutare) of a case pending before the Tribunalul Neamț (Case No. 964/279/2010), finding the request unfounded, with no further appeal available; the decision, rendered in a chamber meeting on April 1, 2013, leaves the original case to proceed as scheduled (pronouncement had been postponed to April 4, 2013). The dispute concerned a procedural motion to change venue, argued by the public prosecutor's representative as without merit. The legal basis rests on the conditions for case transfer under Romanian civil procedure (Code of Civil Procedure provisions on strămutare), requiring a showing of impartiality risk or other statutory grounds, which the applicants failed to establish.