Plea (959,-666)

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• Judgment 5155

  
  141st Session, 2026
  World Health Organization
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainant contests the decision not to select her for the position of Head of the WHO Office in Dakar, Senegal.

  Consideration 4

  Extract:

  The Tribunal accepts the complainant’s statement that her allegations of harassment against the Regional Director and the Director for Programme Management serve the purpose of substantiating her claim that these staff members were affected by an apparent conflict of interest when acting in the context of the selection process and are therefore relevant for that purpose in the present complaint. The Tribunal accepts her further statement that she has not requested it to rule on the merits of her harassment complaint, but merely on the issue of conflict of interest in the context of the contested selection process which underlies this complaint. The Tribunal is satisfied that the complainant’s allegations of harassment and related matters are intended to establish an aspect of the unlawfulness of the decision she contests in this complaint and are cast no wider. It is open to her to follow this course (see, for example, Judgment 4149, consideration 7).

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 4149
  

  Keywords:

  conflict of interest; harassment; plea; receivability of the complaint;
  

  
  
  

• Judgment 5136

  
  141st Session, 2026
  International Criminal Police Organization
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainant challenges the rejection of his application for the Voluntary Departure Programme.

  Consideration 3

  Extract:

  Interpol raises a threshold issue about the receivability of the complaint insofar as it might be thought to contain allegations of institutional harassment […]. Regarding the complainant’s allegations of institutional harassment, it is relatively clear that they are intended to establish that some aspect of the decision to deny his application for the Voluntary Departure Programme was unlawful and his claims do not appear to be cast any wider. It is open to the complainant to follow this course (see, for example, Judgments 4149, consideration 7, and 3688, consideration 1).

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 3688, 4149
  

  Keywords:

  institutional harassment; plea; receivability of the complaint;
  

  
  
  

• Judgment 5119

  
  141st Session, 2026
  International Telecommunication Union
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainant contests ITU’s decision to impose on him the disciplinary measure of dismissal with immediate effect.

  Considerations 29-30

  Extract:

  “An internal appeal body has a duty to address pleas of substance […]. Yet, the Appeal Board report shows that while it apparently identified what it considered as being potential issues on the question of the alleged conflict of interest, it did not resolve these issues as part of its remarks. Similarly, regarding the evidence and the burden of proof, the Appeal Board noted the applicable standard of preponderance of evidence […] and the beyond reasonable doubt standard applied by the Disciplinary Chamber, and even expressed having some doubts on the evidence from both sides. Still, it refrained from explaining what to conclude from these different standards and what these doubts were and amounted to, or from resolving any discrepancies that may have existed in its mind.
  [A]n appeal board [is] wrong to consider that it was not competent to ascertain, in its opinion, whether an internal investigative body had correctly assessed the probative value of the documents and information provided by a complainant in support of an internal complaint, and that this error of law had the effect of denying the complainant his right to have the merits of his internal appeal duly considered. The same applies in the present situation.”

  Keywords:

  evidence; internal appeals body; investigation; manifest error; plea; right of appeal;
  

  
  
  

• Judgment 4534

  
  134th Session, 2022
  World Health Organization
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainant, a former staff member of UNAIDS, challenges the decision to separate him from service on 31 October 2018, being the date on which he reached his retirement age according to the Staff Rules then in force, as well as the decision not to approve an exceptional extension of his appointment beyond retirement age.

  Consideration 17

  Extract:

  An internal appeal body has a duty to address pleas of substance (see, for example, Judgments 4169, consideration 5, and 4063, consideration 5).

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 4063, 4169
  

  Keywords:

  internal appeals body; plea;