World Bank Administrative Court

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The Administrative Court of the World Bank ( English World Bank Administrative Tribunal , WBAT ) is an international court that is responsible for the legal issues of the approximately 10,000 employees of the institutions of the World Bank Group . It was founded on July 1, 1980 and is based in Washington, DC , the headquarters of the World Bank.

Jurisdiction and Legal Basis

The jurisdiction of the Administrative Court of the World Bank includes decisions on applications from employees of the World Bank Group which deal with non-compliance with their employment contracts or employment agreements as well as other provisions of service law, including the regulations on pensions . The legal basis of the court is the statute adopted by the Board of Governors of the World Bank on April 30, 1980 in the last version dated June 18, 2009 and the procedural rules adopted by the court on September 26, 1980 in the version valid since January 1, 2002.

Organization and way of working

Stephen Myron Schwebel, President of the Administrative Court

The World Bank's Administrative Tribunal consists of seven judges , all of whom come from different World Bank contracting states. The Executive Board of the World Bank is responsible for appointing the judges and decides on the basis of a list of proposals drawn up by the President of the World Bank with the support of an advisory body. The judges' term of office is five years and they can be reappointed once.

The prerequisite for the acceptance of applications by the court is usually the exhaustion of the organization's internal objection and clarification options. Regular meetings of the court take place once a year. The court has a quorum if at least five members are present. However, individual cases can also be decided by panels of three judges each, to which either the president of the court or one of his two deputies belongs. Resolutions are passed with a simple majority; in the event of a tie, the President or his authorized deputy decides. All decisions of the court are final.

The current president of the court has been the American lawyer Stephen Myron Schwebel since October 2010 , who previously worked at the International Court of Justice and the Administrative Court of the International Monetary Fund .

literature

  • Chittharanjan Félix Amerasinghe: The World Bank Administrative Tribunal . In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly . 31 (4) / 1982. British Institute of International and Comparative Law, pp. 748-764, ISSN  0020-5893 .
  • Chittharanjan Félix Amerasinghe: Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations . Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law . 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 2005, ISBN 0-52-154557-9 , pp. 217-270.
  • Nassib G. Ziadé (Ed.): Problems of International Administrative Law: On the Occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal . Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden and Boston 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-15712-5 .

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