Mootness of jurisdiction transfer request following declinatory assignment to another competent court

The High Court of Cassation and Justice rejected the motion for transfer of jurisdiction filed by the applicant, leaving the case with the originally competent court; the court dismissed the request as the proceedings in the underlying civil lawsuit had already been declinatory transferred to the Court of Sector 4, rendering the motion moot or improperly directed. The dispute concerned a procedural application for the relocation of jurisdiction (strămutare) in a civil case pending at the Bucharest Sector 5 Court, where the applicant sought to move the trial to a different tribunal. The decisive legal basis was the procedural requirement that a motion for transfer of jurisdiction must be timely and procedurally valid at the time of decision, specifically noting that the prior declinatory judgment to another competent court on September 23, 2012, and the public prosecutor's conclusion to dismiss led to the final rejection of the application without any further avenue of appeal.