Musat & Asociatii has won an appeal before the High Court of Cassation and Justice against a prior decision by the Bucharest Court of Appeal, allowing the retrial of the review application in the case concerning the torturers of Romanian anti-communist dissident Gheorghe Ursu.
Musat & Asociatii is representing pro bono the descendants of Gheorghe Ursu, who was arrested and tortured to death in 1985 by the Securitate – the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. According to the firm, the High Court of Cassation and Justice has recently admitted the appeals lodged by the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court of Appeal and by Gheorghe Ursu’s family against the judgment of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, which rejected in principle the application for review as inadmissible. By the decision of the Supreme Court, the applications for judicial review in the case file were admitted in principle and referred to the Bucharest Court of Appeal to be analyzed on the merits.
According to the firm, "the judgment of the High Court of Cassation and Justice paves the way for an analysis of all the documents provided by the Romanian Academy through the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History and the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, which highlights data and circumstances that were not taken into account in the resolution of the case and outlines a solution totally opposed to the one initially rendered."
The Musat & Asociatii team included Partners Stefan Diaconescu and Alexandru Terta.
