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Putting into force a new methodical approach to establish a list of recommended staff for a P5 promotion had not been submitted to the mixed staff-administration consultative body of HCR as long as this approach did not modify the existing regulations when it comes to the criteria of promotion. It is for the Administration to establish a list of promotions based on regulations put in place in order to reconcile the two imperatives for advancement based on merit and that of gender balance and, if necessary, by introducing quotas. Failing to have such regulations in place, the Administration must apply the regulation in force. Paragraph 5 of Article 10 of the UNDT’s Statutes imposes on the judge, in certain cases to set compensation that the Respondent can choose to pay in lieu of the annulment of the contested administrative decision. The judge takes into account the moral damage of the illegal decision that was made and fixes the amount to be paid at CHF8000. According to the Tribunal’s Statutes, the judge cannot address/impose injunctions on the administration. The annulation of a non-promotion due to the vice of procedure does not imply that the staff could have been promoted. The request that was before the judge to order the administration to grant the staff a promotion can but be rejected. Contested decision rescinded. The judge fixed an amount of compensation corresponding to paragraph 5 of article 10 of the UNDT’s Statutes. All other claims were rejected.