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Medical opinion (417,-666)
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Total judgments found: 43
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Judgment 4807
137th Session, 2024
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the report of the Medical Committee which extended her sick leave until 31 May 2016 and concluded that she was not suffering from invalidity.
Considerations 6-8
Extract:
According to the Tribunal’s well-established case law, the Medical Committee’s opinion is not an administrative decision of the type that can be challenged before the Tribunal as it is merely a step in the process of reaching the final decision of the Administration. In Judgment 4118, consideration 2, the Tribunal clarified the principle regarding a complaint directed against the Medical Committee’s report:
“With respect to the claims directed against the ‘decision’ of the Medical Committee of 21 June 2007, the Tribunal notes at the outset that they are manifestly irreceivable, inasmuch as the alleged decision is only an opinion amounting to a preparatory step which, as such, cannot be appealed. The only act adversely affecting the complainant is the administrative decision taken in light of that opinion, namely, in this case, the decision of the President of the Office of 12 July 2007. Thus, as the complainant himself appears to admit in his rejoinder, it is that decision that he should have challenged, if he considered that he had grounds to do so, and not the opinion of the Medical Committee of 21 June 2007.”
[…] [I]n the instant case, the only act adversely affecting the complainant is the administrative decision endorsing the Medical Committee’s opinion, contained in the 23 June 2014 letter from the Head of Department, Human Resources […] Expert Services, and not the Medical Committee’s opinion of 2 June 2014 or its letter of 11 June 2014, which the complainant erroneously considers to be the decision to be impugned.
Therefore, the complaint is irreceivable […].
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4118
Keywords:
administrative decision; medical opinion; receivability of the complaint; step in the procedure;
Judgment 4761
137th Session, 2024
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges WHO’s refusal to recognise that the illness from which he claims to suffer is service-induced.
Consideration 2
Extract:
Since this involves a medical matter, the Tribunal recalls that, according to consistent precedent, it may not replace the findings of medical experts with its own assessment. However, it does have full competence to say whether there was due process and to examine whether the medical reports on which administrative decisions are based show any material mistake or inconsistency, overlook some essential fact or plainly misread the evidence (see, in particular, Judgments 4699, consideration 6, 4694, consideration 11, 4464, consideration 7, 3994, consideration 5, and 3361, consideration 8).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3361, 3994, 4464, 4694, 4699
Keywords:
judicial review; medical opinion; role of the tribunal;
Judgment 4699
136th Session, 2023
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the decisions that found that his injuries had consolidated without permanent invalidity.
Consideration 6
Extract:
[I]t is not for the Tribunal, in medical matters, to replace the findings of medical experts with its own assessment (see, in particular, Judgments 4473, consideration 13, 4464, consideration 7, and 3361, consideration 8).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3361, 4464, 4473
Keywords:
medical opinion; role of the tribunal;
Judgment 4694
136th Session, 2023
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision confirming his fitness for work and instructing him to resume his duties.
Consideration 11
Extract:
In Judgment 4580, consideration 19, the Tribunal recalled that, when decisions have been taken on the basis of expert evidence, it is not the Tribunal’s role to substitute its assessment for that of an expert, unless that assessment is affected by a blatant error (see also Judgments 4464, consideration 7, 4277, consideration 20, and 4278, consideration 16). However, far from establishing the existence of a blatant error, the arguments set up by the complainant against the Organisation’s medical evidence amount instead to a request for the Tribunal to substitute its assessment for that of the Organisation in relation to a medical matter.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4277, 4278, 4464, 4580
Keywords:
expert inquiry; medical opinion; role of the tribunal;
Judgment 4585
135th Session, 2023
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision made concerning the extent of his service-incurred disability, the date until which he should be paid compensation for disability, and the payment of the fees of the medical experts who examined his case.
Consideration 10
Extract:
The Tribunal has reviewed the ABCC’s report and the Medical Board’s reports. The Tribunal recalls its consistent precedent that it may not replace the medical findings of medical experts with its own assessment. However, it does have full competence to decide whether there was due process and to examine whether the medical reports on which administrative decisions are based show any material mistake or inconsistency, overlook some essential fact or plainly misread the evidence (see, for example, Judgment 4237, consideration 5, and the judgments cited therein).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4237
Keywords:
competence of tribunal; medical board; medical opinion;
Judgment 4473
133rd Session, 2022
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the decision not to recognise his son’s condition as a “serious illness” within the meaning of the provisions governing reimbursement of medical expenses.
Consideration 13
Extract:
[I]t should be pointed out that, in Judgment 3994, the Tribunal recalls that, according to consistent precedent, it may not replace the medical findings of medical experts with its own assessment. In that judgment, the Tribunal clarifies that, although it does have full competence to say whether there was due process and to examine the medical reports on which an administrative decision is based, its role concerns situations in which a material mistake or inconsistency, a failure to consider some essential fact or a plain misreading of the evidence can be demonstrated. Moreover, in consideration 6, the Tribunal states:
“The complainant has produced no evidence in support of her claims that challenges either the lawfulness of the procedure followed during that expert assessment or the soundness of the expert’s conclusions.”
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3994
Keywords:
medical opinion; role of the tribunal;
Judgment 4464
133rd Session, 2022
World Trade Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the WTO’s refusal to recognise the illness from which he states he suffers as service-incurred.
Considerations 9-10
Extract:
In the light of all these circumstances, the Tribunal finds the board’s composition and functioning were tainted by a substantial flaw owing to the role played by a medical practitioner who was not a member.
This flaw is a sufficient basis to find not only that the medical board’s conclusions in the report of 22 July 2019 are invalid, but also that the Director-General’s final decision of 16 January 2020 must be set aside.
Keywords:
medical board; medical opinion; procedural flaw;
Consideration 7
Extract:
[T]he Tribunal reiterates that according to consistent precedent, it may not replace the medical findings of medical experts with its own assessment, but it is required to say whether there was due process (see, for example, Judgment 3994, consideration 5). It must therefore satisfy itself that a medical board was properly constituted and followed due process.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3994
Keywords:
medical board; medical opinion; role of the tribunal;
Judgment 4413
132nd Session, 2021
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant filed an application for execution of Judgments 3887 and 3986, and the EPO filed an application for interpretation and execution of Judgment 3887, as clarified by Judgment 3986.
Consideration 10
Extract:
The application for interpretation filed by the EPO, as based on the impossibility to execute Judgments 3887 and 3986, raises a threshold issue. The Tribunal finds that the two facts reported above under consideration 7 and proven by the EPO, have rendered impossible the complete execution of the two judgments. In the unusual circumstances of this case, the Tribunal will make no further orders for the execution of Judgments 3887 and 3986. Firstly, forcing Mr B. to undergo a medical examination would impair his fundamental rights to dignity and health. Secondly, the refusal of psychiatric experts to carry out an examination only on the basis of documents was an objective obstacle that made it impossible to fully execute the judgments. Neither of these obstacles can be attributed to the EPO. Accordingly, the Tribunal finds that the EPO could do nothing more to execute the judgments, and Mr B.’s application for execution must be dismissed.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3887, 3986
Keywords:
application for execution; execution of judgment; medical opinion;
Judgment 4117
127th Session, 2019
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the finding that his invalidity was not caused by an occupational disease.
Consideration 5
Extract:
Before proceeding to consider the merits of the complaint, one further preliminary issue concerning receivability should be mentioned. There is one judgment of the Tribunal, Judgment 2787, which, in consideration 3, draws a distinction between procedural and medical aspects of a Medical Committee’s opinion and affirms that, by implication and because of Articles 107(1) and (2) and 109(3) of the Service Regulations as applicable at the material time, the latter (the medical aspects) could be challenged before the Tribunal without the prior filing of an internal appeal to the Appeals Committee. Even if the distinction created by this judgment should continue to be applied by the Tribunal (which may be doubted), there is no bright line between an opinion of a Medical Committee on procedural aspects and an opinion on medical aspects. The present case illustrates that an opinion of the Medical Committee may have both procedural and medical characteristics. In the present case, the Tribunal is satisfied that the decisions of 7 January and 13 February 2013 were decisions “taken after consultation of the Medical Committee” for the purposes of Articles 109(3)(a) and 110(2)(a) of the Service Regulations. Accordingly, the complainant was entitled to bring his complaint directly to the Tribunal [...].
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2787
Keywords:
internal remedies exhausted; medical board; medical grounds; medical opinion;
Judgment 3994
126th Session, 2018
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges CERN’s refusal to recognise the illness from which she says she suffers as occupational.
Consideration 5
Extract:
The Tribunal recalls that according to consistent precedent, it may not replace the medical findings of medical experts with its own assessment. However, it does have full competence to say whether there was due process and to examine whether the medical reports on which administrative decisions are based show any material mistake or inconsistency, overlook some essential fact or plainly misread the evidence (see, for example, Judgment 1284, under 4).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1284
Keywords:
illness; judicial review; medical examination; medical opinion;
Judgment 3962
125th Session, 2018
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decisions to downgrade her, reassign her to another position and place her on an additional period of probation.
Considerations 11 and 15
Extract:
Article 52 of the Service Regulations dealt with incompetence. It provided: “(1) Subject to Article 23 of the Convention, a permanent employee who proves incompetent in the performance of his duties may be dismissed.
The appointing authority may, however, offer to classify the employee concerned in a lower grade and to assign him to a post corresponding to this new grade. [...]"
[...]
A third and related issue arising from the language of Article 52(1) is that once this assessment is undertaken by or on behalf of the President, an offer should have been made to the complainant identifying the new lower grade and the post to which she might be assigned. It was not. Reasonably clearly this step of making an offer is intended to ensure that a permanent employee proven to be incompetent in the position she or he then held, has the opportunity of discussing with the EPO what work she or he might do within the EPO into the future. In the ordinary course, one would expect that a decision to offer to classify the permanent employee in a lower grade and assign her or him to a new post would be significantly more attractive to the staff member concerned, found to be incompetent, than a decision to dismiss. Nonetheless important considerations may arise for the affected staff member including alterations to remuneration and likely career paths within the EPO. Indeed it is not possible to entirely discount, once an offer was made, negotiations or at least discussions taking place between the affected staff member and the EPO about what the EPO proposed. In a case such as the present where mental health issues were involved, some form of agreed medical assessment might also be appropriate to gauge competency given that the underlying aim of this process is to place the affected permanent employee in a position where she or he is competent and contributing to the overall work of the EPO.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: Article 52 of the Service Regulations
Keywords:
disciplinary measure; downgrading; medical opinion;
Judgment 3949
125th Session, 2018
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to dismiss as irreceivable his claims for compensation for injury or illness attributable to service.
Consideration 8
Extract:
It is not the Tribunal’s role, in a case such as the present, to adjudicate on the merits of a claim for compensation on medical grounds in the absence of a consideration of the question by a body that has been established for that purpose, if any, within an organisation (such as the ABCC) and in the absence of considered medical opinions addressing the question (see generally Judgment 3538, consideration 12).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3538
Keywords:
competence of tribunal; medical opinion;
Judgment 3854
124th Session, 2017
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision not award him compensation for a service-incurred disability.
Consideration 10
Extract:
Diagnosis based on a patient’s account of past events is entirely orthodox and particularly so if the patient’s account of past events is not challenged.
Keywords:
medical opinion;
Judgment 3538
120th Session, 2015
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainants challenge their April 2007 payslip showing an increase in their pension contributions.
Consideration 12
Extract:
It is often the case that a court will be required to adjudicate on an issue where the opinion of an expert is an essential element in determining the outcome. Obvious examples would be the cause of illness and the prognosis of a staff member claiming some type of sickness benefit or sickness leave. Expert medical opinions would ordinarily underpin a court’s determination of whether an entitlement to the benefit or leave was established. It would be in rare cases indeed that a court would determine such issues on the basis of arguments advanced by non-experts in the field in question, however intelligent or knowledgeable they may be in other fields of human endeavour.
Keywords:
administrative decision; medical examination; medical opinion;
Judgment 3497
120th Session, 2015
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the refusal of her request that her mother’s condition be recognized as a serious illness.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
case sent back to organisation; complaint allowed; decision quashed; health insurance; illness; medical expenses; medical opinion;
Judgment 3361
118th Session, 2014
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant successfully impugns the decision rejecting her request seeking payment of the costs of an orthodontic treatment and a surgical operation.
Consideration 8
Extract:
The Tribunal [...] cannot substitute its own views for the medical opinions on which the impugned decision was based. This is especially true in cases such as the present one, where specialists regarded by both parties as being highly qualified have given different opinions on the advisability of a treatment and a surgical operation.
The Tribunal is, however, fully competent to assess whether the procedure that has been followed was correctly carried out,
especially as regards respect for the adversarial principle or the right to be heard, and to examine whether the reports used as the
basis for an administrative decision contain any substantive error or inconsistency, overlook essential facts or draw erroneous conclusions from the evidence (see Judgments 620, under 4, 1284, under 4, and 2361, under 9).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 620, 1284, 2361
Keywords:
medical opinion;
Judgment 3354
118th Session, 2014
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The Tribunal set aside the decision dismissing the complainant’s request for the reimbursement of pharmaceutical costs on the ground that the case should have been referred to the Medical Committee.
Consideration 10
Extract:
"[T]he President should not have, as she did in the impugned decision, dismissed out of hand the complainant’s appeal against the rejection of his claim for reimbursement for the product and the treatment. The matter should have been considered by the Medical Committee before such action was taken, if it accorded with the opinion of the Medical Committee. Accordingly, the impugned decision is flawed and should be set aside."
Keywords:
medical opinion; refund;
Judgment 3300
116th Session, 2014
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The Tribunal dismissed the complaint filed against the decision not to consider the complainant's disability as resulting from an occupational disease.
Judgment keywords
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: Articles 89(3), 89(4) and 90(1) of the Service Regulations
Keywords:
complaint dismissed; disability benefit; invalidity; medical board; medical opinion; order; pension; procedural flaw; service-incurred; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 3196
115th Session, 2013
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant impugns the implicit rejection of her request for disclosure of a medical report.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint dismissed; confidential evidence; disclosure of evidence; medical opinion;
Judgment 3111
113th Session, 2012
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
[I]t is well settled, as stated in Judgment 1752, under consideration 9, that the Tribunal "may not replace qualified medical opinion with its own, though it may review the procedure and say whether the doctor's findings show any factual mistake or inconsistency, or overlook an essential fact, or draw a plainly wrong conclusion from the evidence" (see also Judgments 2361, consideration 4, 2551, consideration 9, and 2580, consideration 6).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1752, 2361, 2551, 2580
Keywords:
judicial review; medical opinion;
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