Judgment No. 213

• Organization: International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Date: 22.10.1973
• Original: French
• Judges: Letourneur, Grisel, Devlin
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.

Considerations

Extract:

"If [the complainant] intends to impugn the refusal to give him a new appointment which he alleges in his complaint had been promised to him, he is not impugning any decision embodying such a refusal, and in any event he ought not to have addressed himself directly to the Tribunal before submitting an appeal to the [internal] appeals body [...] The fact that he was received by the Secretary-General [...] cannot be regarded as an alternative to such an appeal."

Keywords

absence of final decision; receivability of the complaint; internal remedies exhausted

Considerations

Extract:

The complainant impugns the refusal of his claim for compensation dated 5 July 1972; his complaint filed with the Administrative Tribunal on 14 January 1973 "was not submitted within the time limits laid down by Article VII, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Tribunal and is therefore not receivable."

Reference(s)

ILOAT reference: ARTICLE VII, PARAGRAPH 2, OF THE STATUTE

Keywords

complaint; receivability of the complaint; time bar