Discretion (547, 548, 549, 550, 551,-666)
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Judgment 1143
72nd Session, 1992
World Intellectual Property Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"Regulation 9.8 confers on the Director General discretion to extend the age limit in individual cases if he considers that to be in the organization's interests. The determination of what the organization's interests are being peculiarly within the Director General's discretion, the Tribunal has a limited power of review and will interfere with his decision only if it was taken without authority or [...]."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: WIPO STAFF REGULATION 9.8
Keywords:
age limit; discretion; exception; extension beyond retirement age; judicial review; organisation's interest; retirement;
Judgment 1138
72nd Session, 1992
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 2-3
Extract:
"By virtue of UNESCO Staff Rule 104.6(b) a fixed-term contract may at the Director-General's discretion be extended or converted into an indefinite appointment, but the staff member has neither any right to an extension nor any legitimate expectancy of one. In keeping with precedent [...] the Tribunal will not interfere with the discretionary decision not to extend an appointment unless it was made without authority or in breach of a rule of procedure, or was based on a mistake of fact or of law, or overlooked some essential fact, or amounted to an abuse of authority."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: UNESCO STAFF RULE 104.6
Keywords:
contract; discretion; extension of contract; judicial review; non-renewal of contract; titularization;
Judgment 1137
72nd Session, 1992
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
"Only on the limited grounds often stated in the case law will the Tribunal interfere with discretionary decisions such as one to promote an official. [...] So the Tribunal will, for example, [not] review the records of the candidates a promotion board was considering".
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; promotion;
Judgment 1136
72nd Session, 1992
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
The complainant is objecting to an appraisal report. "According to well-established precedent [...] a reporting officer has wide discretion [...] and [his assessment] will stand unless there is an obvious mistake of fact or failure to show the sort of objectivity that ought to govern reporting."
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; performance report; work appraisal;
Judgment 1131
71st Session, 1991
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
The Tribunal's "power of review is limited. It may not supplant an organisation's view with its own on such matters as a restructuring of posts or redeployment of staff intended to make savings or improve efficiency. Nor may it consider whether abolishing a post was the right thing to do. But it will interfere with any decision that was taken without authority [etc]".
Keywords:
abolition of post; budgetary reasons; competence of tribunal; discretion; judicial review; reorganisation;
Judgment 1128
71st Session, 1991
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
As stated in Judgment 675, "an international organisation is under an obligation to consider whether or not it is in its interests to renew a contract and to make a decision accordingly: though such a decision is discretionary, it may not 'be arbitrary or irrational'; there 'must be a good reason for it and the reason must be given'."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 675
Keywords:
contract; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; fixed-term; grounds; limits; non-renewal of contract; organisation's duties; organisation's interest;
Consideration 6
Extract:
"It is at the discretion of an international organisation to discontinue employment it has lost confidence in the staff member and no longer believes that he will show due respect for its good name, and the Tribunal will not interfere with the decision the organisation takes in the exercise of that discretion unless it finds one of the fatal flaws that warrant setting the decision aside. Such flaws include procedural defects, failure to take account of some essential fact and misuse of authority."
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; non-renewal of contract; organisation's reputation; staff member's duties; termination of employment;
Judgment 1127
71st Session, 1991
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 30
Extract:
"A decision not to confirm a probationer's appointment is at the Director General's discretion and, according to well-established precedent, a discretionary decision may be set aside only if it was taken without authority [etc.] "There will be especial caution in reviewing a decision not to confirm the appointment of a probationer in the light of the material criteria. "Where the reason for refusal of confirmation is, as in the present case, unsatisfactory performance the Tribunal will not replace with its own the organisation's assessment of the official's fitness."
Keywords:
appointment; discretion; judicial review; probationary period; termination of employment; unsatisfactory service;
Consideration 8
Extract:
The complainant suggests that the Reports Committee which recommended against confirming her appointment following probation was biased. "The burden is on the complainant to show that the members of the Committee duly appointed by the Director General were not impartial, and she has failed to offer any evidence to suggest that they were not."
Keywords:
advisory body; bias; burden of proof; complainant; composition of the internal appeals body; discretion; evidence; executive head;
Consideration 8
Extract:
"The Tribunal will not ordinarily question the competence and qualifications of those whom the Director General appoints in the exercise of his discretion to the Reports Committee, provided that the rules are complied with and the members' independence and impartiality are not in doubt."
Keywords:
advisory body; bias; competence; composition of the internal appeals body; discretion; executive head; judicial review; procedure before the tribunal;
Judgment 1126
71st Session, 1991
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Article 61(5) of the Interpol Staff Rules empowers the Secretary General to grant an official a supplementary indemnity on termination of appointment, "taking into account the particular circumstances relating to the personal situation of the official concerned". The Tribunal finds no evidence of such a "particular circumstance" in this case.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 61(5) OF THE INTERPOL STAFF RULES
Keywords:
amount; condition; discretion; enforcement; provision; staff regulations and rules; terminal entitlements;
Judgment 1125
71st Session, 1991
Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"Where the Rule [viz. Article 25 of the 1956 Staff Rules] is silent the competent authority - here the Administrative Committee - does have discretion to set the amount of the contribution to be paid from the date of retirement. But its decision will not be immune to review by the Tribunal, which will interfere if it finds some mistake of fact or of law [etc.]". The decision to do away with the material benefit is in breach of Article 25 and cannot stand.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 25 OF THE 1956 STAFF RULES
Keywords:
amount; breach; contributions; discontinuance; discretion; judicial review; no provision; organisation; provision; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1124
71st Session, 1991
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
See Judgment 1126, summary.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 61(5) OF THE INTERPOL STAFF RULES
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1126
Keywords:
amount; condition; discretion; enforcement; provision; staff regulations and rules; terminal entitlements;
Judgment 1116
71st Session, 1991
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
"According to consistent precedent the Director-General has discretion to extend a fixed-term appointment or convert it into an indeterminate one and his decision will be set aside only if taken without authority [etc]".
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; contract; discretion; duration of appointment; fixed-term; judicial review; non-renewal of contract; permanent appointment;
Judgment 1115
71st Session, 1991
World Intellectual Property Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
"The Tribunal has only a limited power of review in the matter of performance reports. It will not interfere unless the decision impugned has been based on a mistake of fact or of law [etc]".
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; performance report;
Judgment 1111
71st Session, 1991
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
The complainant, having tendered her resignation, was mistakenly paid a termination indemnity upon the transfer of Interpol's Headquarters to Lyons. The organisation ordered repayment. "[T]he Secretary General's decision to claim the sum back from her is a discretionary one. In deciding whether to demand full or part repayment he takes accounts of such factors as the staff member's good or bad faith, the sort of mistake that has been made, the organization's own and the staff member's negligence and the inconvenience which the demand, made necessary by the organization's own oversight, will put the staff member to. So the Tribunal will exercise only a limited power of review over the decision."
Keywords:
discretion; good faith; judicial review; negligence; recovery of overpayment; terminal entitlements;
Judgment 1109
71st Session, 1991
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
In keeping with the scheme for "personal promotion" brought in by Circular 334, "promotion is at the Director-General's discretion, his decision is subject only to limited review, and it may not ordinarily be set aside unless there is some particular fatal flaw. Breach of a procedural rule is such a flaw."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ILO CIRCULAR 334 (SERIES 6) OF 20 JULY 1985
Keywords:
discretion; flaw; judicial review; personal promotion; procedural flaw; promotion;
Judgment 1088
70th Session, 1991
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
At issue is the organisation's refusal to refund the costs of Serocytol, a pharmaceutical product which Eurocontrol regards as of no curative effect. The organisation did not go beyond the bounds of the discretion it has in the matter under Article 24(2) of Rule no. 10 concerning health and accident insurance.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 24(2) OF RULE NO. 10
Keywords:
discretion; health insurance; medical expenses; refund; refusal;
Judgment 1080
70th Session, 1991
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Vide Judgment 1126, summary.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 61.5 OF THE INTERPOL STAFF RULES
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1126
Keywords:
amount; condition; discretion; enforcement; provision; staff regulations and rules; terminal entitlements;
Judgment 1078
70th Session, 1991
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
The complainant was transferred on account of his poor relations with other staff members. "The Tribunal is satisfied on the evidence before it that [the organisation] did not go beyond the bounds of the discretion it must be allowed in matters of internal administration and management."
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; transfer; working relations;
Judgment 1077
70th Session, 1991
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"A decision by an international organisation to make an appointment is a discretionary one and is therefore subject only to limited review. It may be quashed only if it was taken without authority [etc]. The Tribunal will, in cases like the present, exercise its power of review with special caution, its function being not to judge the candidates on merit but to allow the Selection Committee and the executive head full responsibility for their choice."
Keywords:
appointment; competition; discretion; judicial review; limits;
Judgment 1076
70th Session, 1991
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 3 and 7
Extract:
The complainant's application for transfer was refused. "Being discretionary, the decision may be set aside only if it was taken without authority [...]. The Tribunal will not quash a decision simply because the parties' respective interests might have been differently assessed."
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; organisation; organisation's interest; refusal; request for transfer; staff member's interest;
Judgment 1072
70th Session, 1991
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
For an IAEA staff member's spouse to qualify as a dependant, his or her gross salary must not exceed that of the lowest step in the general service grade applicable in the spouse's country of employment. That amount is converted into Austrian schillings at the rate applicable in January of the year in question. Under the prescribed method the complainant's wife failed to qualify as a dependant and the Director refused to treat her as one. The Director's decision was a discretionary one and the Tribunal sees no grounds for setting it aside.
Keywords:
amount; condition; definition; dependant; discretion; judicial review; salary;
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