Mootness of jurisdiction transfer request due to prior final adjudication of the civil case

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the petitioner's request to transfer the jurisdiction of the case to another court, upholding the procedural position that the application had become moot; no prior appellate decisions are affected as this is a non-appealable procedural ruling. The dispute concerned a procedural motion for the transfer of jurisdiction (*strămutare*) for civil case No. 219/231/2012 pending before the Focșani Court, where the case was identified as having been already adjudicated on May 22, 2012, according to the court’s electronic docket, thereby rendering the pending transfer request without object. The decisive legal basis for the dismissal was the doctrine of *res judicata* or mooting of the issue, as the procedural prerequisites for a jurisdictional transfer were no longer applicable due to the final resolution of the underlying civil proceedings prior to the hearing.