Discretion (547, 548, 549, 550, 551,-666)
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Judgment 810
61st Session, 1987
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
"An executive has wide discretion in assigning staff in the organization's interest. But his authority is not absolute and the lawfulness of his decision is subject to review, albeit limited review because the Tribunal may not meddle in the actual running of the organization."
Keywords:
assignment; discretion; judicial review;
Consideration 10
Extract:
The Tribunal refers the complainant back to the organization for retroactive restoration of his status as an official. "Yhe Director-General will exercise his discretion in executing this judgment. The Tribunal may not give directions but trusts that the matter will be looked into, after consultation with the complainant, in an attempt to reach a settlement."
Keywords:
competence of tribunal; discretion; execution of judgment; judgment of the tribunal; reconstruction of career;
Judgment 809
61st Session, 1987
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 20
Extract:
"The Director-General's authority is not absolute and quite plainly he failed in this case to pay due regard to the complainant's qualifications and experience in picking P.5 posts."
Keywords:
assignment; degree; discretion; disregard of essential fact; executive head; grade; limits; professional experience; qualifications;
Judgment 808
61st Session, 1987
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 22
Extract:
"The Director-General may assign the staff as the organisation's interests require provided he respects their grades and the grading structure."
Keywords:
assignment; discretion; limits; organisation's interest; transfer;
Judgment 767
59th Session, 1986
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
"Article 11.6 does give the Director-General authority to decide whether or not to propose termination. But the authority is not unqualified. The exercise of it is subject to review by the Tribunal, which will determine whether the decision was taken without authority, [...]."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 11.16 OF THE ILO STAFF REGULATIONS
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review;
Judgment 740
58th Session, 1986
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
"The Council's 'guidelines', inasmuch as they set objective and binding criteria and do not offer mere guidance, are binding on the President insofar as they do not allow him discretionary authority."
Keywords:
administrative instruction; binding character; decision; discretion; enforcement; executive body; executive head; general decision;
Judgment 739
58th Session, 1986
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
"The Council's 'guidelines', inasmuch as they set objective and binding criteria and do not offer mere guidance, are binding on the President insofar as they do not allow him discretionary authority."
Keywords:
administrative instruction; binding character; decision; discretion; enforcement; executive body; executive head; general decision;
Judgment 736
58th Session, 1986
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"The substantial claim is for wrongful dismissal. The complainant was dismissed under Article 13(2) of the Service Regulations as a consequence of two adverse probation reports. If the reports are correct and fair, they afford adequate grounds for the termination of his employment, which is a matter for the President's discretion."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 13.2 OF THE EPO SERVICE REGULATIONS
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; probation report; probationary period; termination of employment; unsatisfactory service;
Judgment 723
58th Session, 1986
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"The Director-General's implied endorsement of the performance report, his postponement of the increment and the transfer are all discretionary decisions and, moreover, ones that fall within an area in which the Tribunal will not ordinarily interfere."
Keywords:
discretion; increment withheld; judicial review; performance report; rating; transfer; unsatisfactory service;
Judgment 722
58th Session, 1986
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"The impugned decision to approve the complainant's report for 1980 and 1981 is a discretionary one and may be set aside only on limited grounds such as a formal or procedural flaw, a mistake of fact or of law, failure to take account of relevant facts, abuse of authority or the drawing of mistaken conclusions from the evidence."
Keywords:
application for quashing; discretion; judicial review; performance report;
Judgment 703
57th Session, 1985
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"Though a seconded official holds a fixed-term appointment his position is out of the ordinary. He cannot expect his contract to last more than two years unless the organisations decide differently. But on leaving the receiving organisation he goes back to the releasing one [...] It is therefore only reasonable that either organisation should have the right to end the secondment if it so wishes on the expiry of the prescribed period without having to explain its decision."
Keywords:
consequence; contract; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; fixed-term; non-renewal of contract; organisation's duties; reinstatement; secondment;
Judgment 699
57th Session, 1985
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Article 59 of the EPO Service Regulations provides that the President shall lay down the list of applicable public holidays up to a maximum of ten days. On 8 November 1983 the President issued a list of 14 public holidays, the four additional working days lost to be made up by extending working hours for a time by half-an-hour. The Tribunal holds that while the President may ignore the ten-day limit he may not put the number of hours in the working week at more than 40 except when they are remunerated or made necessary by abnormal circumstances. In the instant case such circumstances do not exist.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 59 OF THE EPO SERVICE REGULATIONS
Keywords:
compensatory measure; discretion; increase; judicial review; leave; overtime; public holiday; working hours;
Judgment 687
57th Session, 1985
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
"Although the Tribunal may review the lawfulness of the dismissal, the nature of the decision is such that its power of review, where it finds no formal or procedural flaw, is limited. It will set the decision aside only if there was a mistake of law [...]. In a case of dismissal of a probationer the administration should be allowed the widest measure of authority, and the decision will be quashed only if the mistake or the illegality is especially serious or glaring."
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; probationary period; termination of employment;
Judgment 675
56th Session, 1985
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Having served the organization since 1969, the complainant was seconded for two years to the UNDP in 1980. In 1982 the organization decided not to extend the appointment or the secondment. The Tribunal holds that the organization committed an error of law by assuming that a fixed-term appointment expires automatically on the specified expiration date, and an abuse of power for having terminated the complainant without stating its reasons. The award of damages reflects the especially grave moral injury sustained by the complainant.
Keywords:
abuse of power; contract; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; fixed-term; flaw; legitimate expectation; misuse of authority; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; secondment;
Judgment 665
56th Session, 1985
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
"Renewal of an appointment is a discretionary decision. Although the rule provides for automatic expiry in the absence of offer and acceptance of an extension of contract, the decision is still subject to review by the Tribunal, which will set it aside if there was a formal or procedural flaw, or a mistake of fact or of law, or if essential facts were overlooked, or if there was abuse of authority, or if clearly mistaken conclusions were drawn from the evidence."
Keywords:
contract; discretion; fixed-term; judicial review; non-renewal of contract;
Judgment 664
56th Session, 1985
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
The material rule "exempts the case of force majeure. The [organisation] submits that [...] the complainant may not allege [force majeure] in the circumstances and that, even if it were established, the President would have discretion in the matter which he exercised correctly. The last part of the argument is mistaken: if there was force majeure the President was bound to accept the consequences in law."
Keywords:
discretion; force majeure; judicial review;
Judgment 648
55th Session, 1985
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
It is proper for an organization to wish to have full information on candidates in order to secure staff of sound technical competence and high moral integrity. "Whether the candidate qualifies is a matter which the executive head must be left to determine at his discretion, and the Tribunal will not review the exercise of such discretion."
Keywords:
appointment; condition; discretion; fitness for international civil service; judicial review; qualifications;
Judgment 631
54th Session, 1984
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 29
Extract:
"The Director-General took the impugned decision in the exercise of his discretion. This means that the Tribunal will not interfere with it merely because they think it to be wrong. They must be satisfied, to put it briefly, that it was not only wrong but wrongly motivated or based on an error of law or a complete misapprehension of the facts. Moreover, where [...] the interests of the organization form the sole criterion for the decision, the Tribunal will be reluctant to interfere since the Director-General must normally be regarded as the best judge of what those interests are."
Keywords:
assignment; discretion; judicial review; organisation's interest; transfer;
Judgment 623
53rd Session, 1984
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"A contract like the complainant's automatically ends on expiry and the contractual relationship terminates forthwith. Such a contract does not as a rule confer any right to renewal, and renewal is a matter of discretion".
Keywords:
contract; discretion; fixed-term; non-renewal of contract;
Judgment 619
53rd Session, 1984
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
None of the three candidates met all the requirements. The organization cancelled the competition and delayed making an appointment for the vacant position. The provision on which the complainant relies "is not supposed to require [the organization] to choose someone, even if he has the best qualifications, who is still not qualified for the job and it was no breach of [the material rule] not to appoint any of them."
Keywords:
candidate; competition; competition cancelled; discretion; qualifications;
Judgment 608
52nd Session, 1984
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
There is a regulation which provides for the Director-General to determine the frequency of salary adjustments on the basis of variation in the rate of inflation. The Director-General chose not to exercise his discretion. "He must have proceeded upon the erroneous assumption that he was under no obligation to make any adjustment at all and so could do what he liked about the frequency." The Tribunal quashes the decision, which rests on an error of law and remits the case to the Director-General for a "new decision based on the correct interpretation" of the regulation.
Keywords:
adjustment; cost-of-living increase; discretion; enforcement; interpretation; organisation's duties; provision; salary; staff regulations and rules;
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