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Judgment No. 3406

Decision

The complaint is dismissed.

Summary

The Tribunal dismissed the complaint (relating to dependant child allowance) for failure to exhaust internal means of redress.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

family allowance; complaint dismissed

Considerations 12-13

Extract:

As the Tribunal has repeatedly stated, for example in Judgments 602, 1106, 1466, 2722 and 2821, time limits are an objective matter of fact and it should not rule on the lawfulness of a decision which has become final, because any other conclusion, even if founded on considerations of equity, would impair the necessary stability of the parties’ legal relations, which is the very justification for a time bar. In particular, the fact that a complainant may not have discovered the irregularity on which he or she purports to rely until after the expiry of the time limit is not in principle a reason to deem his or her complaint receivable (see, for example, Judgments 602, under 3, and 1466, under 5 and 6).
It is true that the Tribunal’s case law as set forth in Judgments 1466, 2722 and 2821 allows exceptions to this rule where the complainant has been prevented by vis major from learning of the impugned decision in good time (see Judgment 21), or where the organisation, by misleading the complainant or concealing some paper from him or her so as to do him or her harm, has deprived that person of the possibility of exercising his or her right of appeal, in breach of the principle of good faith (see Judgment 752).

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 21, 602, 752, 1106, 1466, 2722, 2821

Keywords

internal appeal; time limit; time bar



 
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