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UNDT preliminarily rejected the Applicant’s requests for recusal, holding that there were no longer any grounds for ruling on those requests since the UNDT President previously rejected those requests. Concerning the first application, UNDT held that the Applicant did not establish the illegality of the election of JC and that his application for the election to be declared null and void must be rejected. With regard to the Applicant’s request that all decisions taken by the Internal Justice Council be rescinded, UNDT held that it is clear from General Assembly Resolution 62/228 of 22 December 2008 that the General Assembly created a body that is purely advisory and does not take any administrative decisions that could be referred to UNDT. Thus, UNDT rejected the applicant’s request in this regard as well. With respect to the second application, UNDT preliminarily held that the application was not time-barred. UNDT noted that since JC was elected in due form and that the Applicant was quite rightly not declared elected, there was no point in the Applicant, as the defeated candidate, requesting rescission of the decision limiting the appointment of members of the Internal Justice Council to a period of four years; only the members themselves might have reason to contest such a decision. UNDT rejected the second application.