Civil case transferred from Tulcea to Bucharest Sector 4

The High Court of Cassation and Justice admitted the request for transfer of venue (strămutare) and ordered the case to be moved from the Tulcea Court to the Bucharest Sector 4 Court, retaining all procedural acts performed thus far; this interlocutory decision is final and not subject to appeal. The dispute concerned a procedural application to relocate the trial of a civil case pending before the Tulcea Court, which had been suspended on June 7, 2012, with the applicant advocating for the transfer and the prosecutor opposing it. The court’s decision rests on the legal admissibility of the transfer procedure under Romanian civil procedure law, determining that the change of jurisdiction was justified despite the underlying case being in a state of suspension.