Jurisdiction / receivability (UNAT)
Manifest excess of jurisdiction
Subject matter (ratione materiae)
Jurisdiction / receivability (UNDT or first instance)
UNAT considered the appeal by the Secretary-General. UNAT held that despite acknowledging that under UNAT鈥檚 jurisprudence, a rebuttal panel is not a technical body, UNDT declined to follow its jurisprudence. UNAT held that UNDT had erred by waiving the management evaluation as a receivability requirement. UNAT held that UNDT exceeded its jurisdiction, and made an error of law when it received an application, which was not receivable ratione materiae. UNAT upheld the appeal was upheld and vacated the UNDT judgment in its entirety.