The Bucharest Court of Appeal explains how it set the deadlines in the case of contesting some judges from the CCR, in full blockage on the magistrates' pensions
Bucharest Court of Appeal, December 12, 2025. Photo: HotNews / Ștefania Gheorghe
It was not about “a discretionary option, but a legal obligation”, the Bucharest Court of Appeal said after the court set short deadlines for the approach of a lawyer, who contested the appointments of two judges from the Constitutional Court.
The reaction came after Sunday morning HotNews wrote that the lawyer Silvia Uscov, a member of the AUR, asked the Bucharest Court of Appeal to suspend the documents by which Mihai Busuioc and Dacian Cosmin Dragoș were appointed judges at the Constitutional Court, on the grounds that they do not meet the condition of 18 years of age in the legal field required by the Constitution.
The requests by which the lawyer Silvia Uscov challenges the appointment of Dacian Cosmin Dragoș and Mihai Busuioc as judges at the Constitutional Court were registered on December 30 and 31, respectively, at the Bucharest Court of Appeal. Both files received short deadlines – January 5.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal came out on Sunday evening with a press release in which it makes “clarifications regarding the pace of resolution and the urgency of some cases”.
In the press release, it gives examples of applicable articles and files that received deadlines between one and ten days during this period.
“In this context, the setting of short court terms was not a discretionary option, but a legal obligation, imposed by the nature of the cases and by the imperative terms established by law”, says CAB, adding that between January 5-9, 2026, terms were granted for 7 such files deemed urgent.
“We emphasize that the judges are independent and exercise their duties exclusively under the law, in compliance with the constitutional provisions and the procedural rules applicable to each category of cases”, added the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
The new developments come as the CCR is expected on January 16 to issue a decision on the magistrates' pensions, after the four judges appointed to the PSD proposal boycotted the last sessions of the Court and blocked the Bolojan Government's project that reduces magistrates' pensions and lowers the retirement age.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal was effectively shaken by the Recorder revelations and later by the “extraordinary” conference, where a judge said that everything that appears in the documentary is true.
