Judgment No. 1292

• Organization: Universal Postal Union (UPU)
• Date: 14.07.1993
• Original: Anglais
• Judges: Ruda, Pescatore, Douglas
• Full judgment text (anglais) - Texte intégral du jugement

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.

Consideration 6

Extract:

"When the Director-General asks the Swiss government to confer diplomatic status, he is exercising his discretion. [...] So the Tribunal will not interfere with his decision unless he has committed some procedural or formal error or a mistake of law or of fact, or applied some wrong principle, or drawn illogical conclusions from the evidence before him."

Keywords

status of complainant; privileges and immunities; judicial review; discretion; executive head; flaw; procedural flaw; mistake of fact; mistaken conclusion