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L'UNAT a rejet¨¦ ¨¤ la fois l'appel et l'appel ¨¤ travers. En ce qui concerne l'appel crois¨¦ du Secr¨¦taire g¨¦n¨¦ral contre la d¨¦cision de la r¨¦ception de l'UNT, l'UNAT a jug¨¦ que l'UNDT avait raison de ne pas rejeter les r¨¦clamations comme irr¨¦alisables, mais d'enqu¨ºter sur leurs m¨¦rites. En ce qui concerne les m¨¦rites, l'UNAT a not¨¦ que les prestations de d¨¦c¨¨s en vertu des r¨¨gles ne sont pas payables aux b¨¦n¨¦ficiaires nomm¨¦s par un membre du personnel, mais aux b¨¦n¨¦ficiaires d¨¦sign¨¦s tels que d¨¦finis par les r¨¨gles du personnel (c'est-¨¤-dire le conjoint survivant ou les enfants ¨¤ charge). L'UNAT...

Unat a jug¨¦ que le consentement de l'appelant ¨¤ avoir pr¨¦c¨¦d¨¦ une audience en personne n'¨¦tait pas requis, conform¨¦ment ¨¤ la r¨¨gle 22 des r¨¨gles du Conseil d'appel de l'OACI et de la r¨¨gle 111.1 du personnel de l'OACI 111.1. L'appelante a ¨¦t¨¦ inform¨¦e par le Board d'appel de l'OACI de son intention de proc¨¦der ¨¤ une d¨¦cision sommaire et elle a particip¨¦ ¨¤ ce processus en faisant des soumissions sans s'y opposer. Par cons¨¦quent, ce n'¨¦tait pas une erreur de droit pour que le conseil d'appel de l'OACI ait examin¨¦ et d¨¦cid¨¦ le jugement sommaire sans audience en personne, mais autrement en...

L'UNAT a jug¨¦ que le membre du personnel ¨¦tait responsable d'avoir convenu que l'UNDT ne devait entendre aucune preuve directe des t¨¦moins en personne, mais devrait d¨¦cider de l'affaire sur les documents soumis. En tant que tribunal inquisitoire et non uniquement contradictoire, l'UNDT aurait n¨¦anmoins pu avoir tenu une audience. L'UNAT a constat¨¦ que l'UNDT avait le droit de conclure sur les preuves du plaignant ¨¤ elle seule que le membre du personnel s'¨¦tait engag¨¦ dans une relation sexuelle avec elle. Leur relation sexuelle ¨¦tait li¨¦e ¨¤ l'emploi et donc transactionnelle. L'UNDT avait le...

L'UNAT a rejet¨¦ l'appel du Secr¨¦taire g¨¦n¨¦ral et a accord¨¦ en partie l'appel de M. Rolli. L'UNAT a constat¨¦ que la r¨¦siliation de la d¨¦cision de r¨¦siliation ordonn¨¦e par le UNDT ¨¦tait ?inutile? depuis que l¡¯affaire ¨¦tait parvenue ¨¤ l¡¯UNDT, le poste de M. Rolli avait ¨¦t¨¦ aboli. L'UNAT a donc jug¨¦ que dans ces circonstances, l'indemnisation devait reposer en vertu de l'article 10, paragraphe 5, (b) et ¨ºtre pour pr¨¦judice caus¨¦ par la d¨¦cision ill¨¦gale. Les m¨¦faits qu'il a subis comprenaient la perte de sa r¨¦mun¨¦ration et de ses avantages (¨¦ducation et droits de pension), les pertes sp¨¦cifiques...

L'UNAT a confirm¨¦ la d¨¦cision de l'ITLOS JAB, jugeant que l'ITLOS n'¨¦tait pas oblig¨¦ de conclure l'exercice de recrutement une fois qu'il avait commenc¨¦ et qu'il avait le pouvoir d'annuler le processus. L'UNAT ¨¦tait pr¨¦occup¨¦ par la modification de la proc¨¦dure de recrutement au cours du recrutement contest¨¦, mais n'a pas pu discerner comment cela a affect¨¦ la candidature de M. Savadogo. L'UNAT a convenu avec l'ITLOS JAB que les all¨¦gations de pr¨¦jug¨¦s de M. Savadogo contre le registraire dans le recrutement ont ¨¦t¨¦ contr¨¦es par le fait que le pr¨¦sident de l'ITLO critiques. L'UNAT a ¨¦galement...

The UNAT held that the staff member was responsible for having agreed that the UNDT should hear no direct evidence from witnesses in person but should decide the matter on the documents submitted. As an inquisitorial and not a solely adversarial tribunal, the UNDT could nevertheless have held a hearing. The UNAT found that the UNDT was entitled to conclude on the complainant¡¯s evidence alone that the staff member had engaged in a sexual relationship with her. Their sexual relationship was employment-related and thereby transactional. The UNDT was entitled to conclude that this was an...

The UNAT dismissed the Secretary-General¡¯s appeal and granted Mr. Rolli¡¯s cross-appeal in part.  The UNAT found that the rescission of the termination decision ordered by the UNDT was ¡°pointless¡± since by the time the case had reached the UNDT, Mr. Rolli¡¯s post had been abolished. The UNAT accordingly held that in these circumstances, compensation had to fall under Article 10(5)(b) and be for harm caused by the unlawful decision.  The harms he suffered included the loss of his remuneration and benefits (education and pension entitlements), the specific losses resulting of his ceasing to be...

The UNAT affirmed the decision of the ITLOS JAB, holding that the ITLOS was not obliged to conclude the recruitment exercise once it had begun, and that it had the authority to cancel the process. The UNAT was concerned by the change to the recruitment procedure during the course of the contested recruitment, but could not discern how this affected Mr. Savadogo¡¯s candidacy. The UNAT agreed with the ITLOS JAB that Mr. Savadogo¡¯s allegations of bias against the Registrar in the recruitment were countered by the fact that the President of ITLOS made the significant decisions in the recruitment...

The UNAT dismissed both the appeal and the cross-appeal.

As to the Secretary-General's cross-appeal against the UNDT's decision on receivability, the UNAT held that the UNDT was correct not to dismiss the claims as unreceivable, but to investigate their merits. 

Turning to the merits, the UNAT noted that death benefits under the Rules are not payable to beneficiaries nominated by a staff member, but to designated beneficiaries as defined by the Staff Rules (i.e. the surviving spouse or dependent children). The UNAT found that Mr. Oming survived Ms. Oming and the substantial preponderance of...

UNAT held that the Appellant¡¯s consent to foregoing an in-person hearing was not required, pursuant to Rule 22 of the ICAO Appeals Board Rules and ICAO Staff Rule 111.1(18).  The Appellant was advised by the ICAO Appeals Board of its intention to proceed with a summary decision and she participated in this process by making submissions without objecting to it.  Therefore, it was not an error of law for the Appeals Board of ICAO to have considered and decided the summary judgment without an in-person hearing but otherwise in compliance with due process requirements of participation therein by...

Unat a constat¨¦ que l'UNDT a conclu correctement que la d¨¦cision contest¨¦e de ne pas initier une enqu¨ºte due ¨¤ la d¨¦mission de son SRO ¨¦tait l¨¦gale dans le cadre d'un exercice raisonnable du pouvoir discr¨¦tionnaire. Bien que le terme ?¨¦valuation pr¨¦liminaire? dans ST / SGB / 2019/8 n'ait pas ¨¦t¨¦ sp¨¦cifiquement utilis¨¦ dans la d¨¦cision contest¨¦e, il ¨¦tait clair que la plainte de Mme Fosse ¨¦tait pr¨¦liminairement ¨¦valu¨¦e avant que la d¨¦cision ne soit prise qu'aucune enqu¨ºte ne serait entreprise. Alors que le Bulletin pr¨¦c¨¦dent (ST / SGB / 2008/5) peut avoir ¨¦t¨¦ en vigueur lorsqu'elle a d¨¦pos¨¦ sa...

UNAT found that the UNDT correctly concluded that the contested decision not to initiate an investigation due to the resignation of her SRO was lawful as part of a reasonable exercise of discretion. Though the term ¡°preliminary assessment¡± in ST/SGB/2019/8 was not specifically used in the contested decision, it was clear that Ms. Fosse¡¯s complaint was preliminarily assessed before the decision was made that no investigation would be undertaken. While the previous Bulletin (ST/SGB/2008/5) may have been in force when she lodged her complaint and when it was the subject of a preliminary...

L'UNAT a rejet¨¦ l'appel interlocutoire comme non ¨¤ recevoir au motif que l'UNDT n'avait pas clairement d¨¦pass¨¦ sa comp¨¦tence ou sa juridiction ou a assum¨¦ une juridiction qu'elle n'avait pas lorsqu'elle a consolid¨¦ les affaires de M. Toson. L'UNAT a ¨¦galement convenu avec le Secr¨¦taire g¨¦n¨¦ral que M. Toson avait avanc¨¦ des arguments infructueux similaires dans une affaire UNAT ant¨¦rieure qu'il a apport¨¦e, mais M. Toson a refus¨¦ d'¨ºtre guid¨¦ par ce jugement avant de poursuivre le pr¨¦sent appel. L'UNAT a mis M. Toson en avis qu'il risque qu'il en r¨¦sulte une attribution de co?ts pour des litiges...

The UNAT dismissed the interlocutory appeal as not receivable on grounds that the UNDT had not clearly exceeded its competence or jurisdiction or assumed a jurisdiction it did not have when it consolidated Mr. Toson's cases.  The UNAT also agreed with the Secretary-General that Mr. Toson had advanced similar unsuccessful arguments in an earlier UNAT case that he brought, but Mr. Toson refused to be guided by that judgment prior to pursuing the present appeal.  The UNAT put Mr. Toson on notice that he risks incurring an award of costs for vexatious litigation if he persists in pursuing the same...

En ce qui concerne l'appel contre l'ordonnance de l'UNT pour la radiation des documents contest¨¦s de son dossier, Unat a constat¨¦ qu'il ¨¦tait ¨¤ recevoir parce que, ¨¤ moins que les documents ne soient conserv¨¦s pour ¨ºtre utilis¨¦s au proc¨¨s, ils pourraient ¨ºtre perdus avec la cons¨¦quence que le Secr¨¦taire g¨¦n¨¦ral serait Soyez incapable de les utiliser pour ¨¦tablir ses all¨¦gations de contrefa?on et de fraude comme il avait droit. Unat a constat¨¦ que l'ordre de l'UNDT ¨¦tait, ¨¤ cet ¨¦gard, effectivement irr¨¦m¨¦diable; que ce serait une cons¨¦quence manifestement d¨¦raisonnable de l'ordre pour le...

As to the appeal against the UNDT¡¯s Order for expungement of the impugned documents from its case file, UNAT found that it was receivable because, unless the documents were preserved for use at trial, they might be lost with the consequence that the Secretary-General would be unable to use them to establish his allegations of forgery and fraud as he was entitled to. UNAT found that the UNDT¡¯s Order was, in this respect, effectively irremediable; that this would be a manifestly unreasonable consequence of the Order for the Secretary-General; and that the circumstances were so rare and...

Unat a jug¨¦ que le jugement de l'UND n'¨¦tait pas coh¨¦rent dans la constatation de parties de la demande irr¨¦couvrables mais ne s'adressant pas ¨¤ ce qui allait arriver au solde de la r¨¦clamation qui ¨¦tait ¨¤ recevoir. Unat a soutenu que dans la mesure o¨´ l'ANDT a jug¨¦ que certaines des r¨¦clamations de l'appelant n'¨¦taient pas ¨¤ recevoir car ils n'¨¦taient pas d¨¦pos¨¦s dans les temps apr¨¨s l'¨¦valuation de la direction, UNT ne s'est pas tromp¨¦ en fait ou de la loi et a maintenu de telles conclusions. Unat a jug¨¦ qu'il y avait des erreurs de UNDT ¨¤ l'¨¦gard de laquelle l'appel devait ¨ºtre autoris¨¦...

UNAT held that the UNDT Judgment was inconsistent in finding parts of the application irreceivable but not addressing what was to happen to the balance of the claim which was receivable. UNAT held that to the extent that the UNDT held that some of the Appellant¡¯s claims were not receivable as they were not filed within time after management evaluation, UNDT did not err in fact or law and UNAT upheld such conclusions. UNAT held that there were errors by UNDT in respect of which the appeal had to be allowed, which were: (1) the UNDT decision not to receive the application in respect of claims...

Unat a jug¨¦ qu'une analyse de l'e-mail et d'une autre correspondance entre le PNUD et l'appelant a indiqu¨¦ qu'elle n'aurait pas pu ¨ºtre amen¨¦e ¨¤ croire que sa demande de cong¨¦ pour janvier 2020 serait accord¨¦e. On lui avait inform¨¦ qu'un membre du personnel n'avait droit ¨¤ un cong¨¦ ¨¤ domicile que si le contrat du membre du personnel devait se poursuivre pendant plus de six mois apr¨¨s le rendement du cong¨¦, mais l'engagement continu de l'appelant avec le PNUD ¨¦tait inconnu, et sa date de fin de contrat actuelle ¨¦tait le 30 juin 2020. Unat a jug¨¦ que le PNUD s'¨¦tait conform¨¦ de ses obligations ¨¤...

UNAT held that an analysis of the e-mail and other correspondence between UNDP and the Appellant indicated that she could not have been led to believe that her home leave request for January 2020 would be granted. She had been advised that a staff member was entitled to home leave only if the staff member¡¯s contract was anticipated to continue for more than six months after the return from home leave, yet Appellant¡¯s continuing engagement with UNDP was unknown, and her current contract end date was June 30, 2020. UNAT held that UNDP complied with its obligations to consider and decide the...