United Nations Administrative Court

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The United Nations Administrative Tribunal ( English United Nations Administrative Tribunal , UNAT , French tribunal administratif des Nations Unies , TANU ) was an international court with jurisdiction over the legal employment concerns of the staff United Nations (UN). It was developed on the basis of Resolution 351 A (IV) of the UN General Assembly of November 24, 1949 and began its work the following year. By Resolution 63/253 of the UN General Assembly on 17 March 2009, the Court was dissolved on 31 December 2009 in favor of a newly created court system from the United Nations Dispute Tribunal as a court of first instance and the United Nations Appeals Tribunal as a court of appeal is .

Jurisdiction and Legal Basis

The jurisdiction of the United Nations Administrative Court encompassed legal disputes between the UN and its employees. This included cases relating to pensions for UN employees, including those for the UN specialized agencies involved in the UN pension system , regardless of whether the court was responsible for their other labor law matters. The International Maritime Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization had also recognized the jurisdiction of the court for all labor law matters of their employees. The Tribunal was also responsible for complaints from employees of the offices of the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Sea and the International Seabed Authority .

The legal basis of the United Nations Administrative Court was the statute established by resolution 351 A (IV) in the last version of April 13, 2005 and the procedural rules adopted by the court on June 7, 1950 in the last version of July 27, 2004 .

Organization and way of working

The United Nations Administrative Court consisted of seven judges , no two of whom were from the same country. The appointment was made by the UN General Assembly for a term of four years, after which a reappointment was possible once. The court's decisions were made by panels of three judges each with a simple majority. The court met twice a year for five weeks each, with one session each in Geneva in summer and in New York in autumn .

As a rule, the prerequisite for the acceptance of applications by the court was the prior application to the Joint Appeals Body and its submission of a statement to the UN Secretary General . If the Joint Appeals Body made a statement in favor of the employee concerned, its action before the court was only admissible if the UN Secretary General did not accept the statement or did not implement the recommendations contained therein. The court made around 60 decisions per year. The total number of judgments in the history of the court is around 1,400.

literature

  • Byung Chul Koh: The United Nations Administrative Tribunal. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1966
  • Administrative tribunals. In: John Allphin Moore, Jr., Jerry Pubantz: Encyclopedia of the United Nations. Second edition. Infobase Publishing, New York 2008, ISBN 0-81-606913-1 , Volume 1, pp. 2/3

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