Transfer of civil case jurisdiction between courts of equal level

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Civil Division I) granted the petition to transfer (strămutare) the pending civil case from the Iași Court of Appeal to the Mureș County Court, thereby allowing the petitioner to prevail in the procedural motion; the ruling is final and not subject to appeal, while procedural acts performed prior to the transfer remain valid. The dispute concerned a request to transfer jurisdiction for a civil case originally docketed as No. 3806/99/2012, where the applicant—a major media entity—sought the transfer citing specific grounds, against the public prosecutor's recommendation to deny the request. The court’s decision relied on the procedural norms governing the transfer of jurisdiction between courts of equal level within the Romanian civil procedure framework, determining that the grounds invoked justified removing the case from the local court of Iași to a court in a different jurisdiction.