Transfer of jurisdiction application dismissed as devoid of object due to prior resolution of the underlying civil case

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the application for transfer of jurisdiction (strămutare) filed by the plaintiffs, finding it devoid of object since the underlying civil case had already been resolved by the lower court on May 28, 2013; the decision was rendered without a right of appeal. The dispute concerned a procedural request to move the trial from the Vaslui County Court to a different instance, while the opposing party and the Public Prosecutor’s representative argued that the request was moot due to the prior resolution of the merits. The decisive legal basis was the requirement that a valid cause for the existence of a request be maintained until the final decision, which ceased to exist once the subject matter of the jurisdictional challenge was settled by the previous judgment, rendering the new application inadmissible.