Transfer of civil case jurisdiction between appellate courts under Article 144(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure

The High Court of Cassation and Justice granted the request for a transfer of venue, ordering the case to move from the Piteşti Court of Appeal to the Bucharest Court of Appeal while preserving all procedural acts previously completed, a decision that is final and unappealable. The dispute involved three limited liability companies petitioning to relocate an ongoing civil proceeding, No. x/2016, from its original jurisdiction, with no underlying merits of the substantive civil claim addressed in this specific interlocutory ruling. The court’s decision was grounded in Article 144(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure, which governs the transfer of judicial proceedings between courts of the same rank, finding the petition for strategic or administrative relocation to be well-founded.