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  • Judgment 4761


    137th Session, 2024
    World Health Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges WHO’s refusal to recognise that the illness from which he claims to suffer is service-induced.

    Considerations 4-5

    Extract:

    The Tribunal considers that, in the absence of any provision to the contrary, there is nothing to prevent a medical board from taking into consideration matters that pre-date those in respect of which it has specifically been convened. [...]
    [...] The Tribunal recalls in this regard that, in accordance with its case law, where an illness has several possible causes and only one or some of those causes are connected to professional activity, it can only be recognised as a service-induced illness if those particular causes were the determining factor (see, in particular, Judgment 4709, considerations 9 and 10, and the case law cited therein).

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 4709

    Keywords:

    illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4709


    136th Session, 2023
    International Labour Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the refusal to recognise her illness as attributable to official duty.

    Consideration 4

    Extract:

    [T]he Tribunal recalls that, according to consistent precedent, it may not replace the opinion of medical experts or a of committee dealing with medical cases, such as a compensation committee, with its own assessment. However, it does have full competence to say whether there was due process and to examine whether the opinion delivered by the committee in question shows any material mistake or inconsistency, overlooks some essential fact or plainly misreads the evidence (see, in particular, Judgments 4473, consideration 13, 3994, consideration 5, 2996, consideration 11, 2361, consideration 9, and 1284, consideration 4).

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1284, 2361, 2996, 3994, 4473

    Keywords:

    illness; judicial review; medical board; role of the tribunal;

    Consideration 9

    Extract:

    Under the Tribunal’s case law, the standard of proof applicable in recognising that an illness is service-incurred is indeed that of the balance of probabilities (see, for example, Judgments 3111, consideration 6, 1971, consideration 15, 1373, consideration 16, and 528, considerations 4 and 5). As that case law sometimes frames it in another manner, it is enough for there to be “a causal link in the legal sense, that is to say, some fairly definite connection” between the diagnosed condition and the alleged occupational origin for a condition to be accepted as service-incurred (see Judgments 3111, consideration 6, and 641, consideration 8).

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 528, 641, 1373, 1971, 3111

    Keywords:

    illness; service-incurred; standard of proof;

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint dismissed; illness; service-incurred;

    Consideration 10

    Extract:

    [U]nder the Tribunal’s case law, where an illness has several possible causes – which is by definition the case of such a hearing loss, according to the scientific literature cited by the Medical Adviser – and only one or some of those causes are related to the complainant’s employment, there is no reason to recognise it as service-incurred unless those causes are shown to be the determining factor (see, in particular, Judgments 3111, considerations 3, 6 and 7, and 1752, consideration 9).

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1752, 3111

    Keywords:

    illness; service-incurred;

    Consideration 12

    Extract:

    [T]he Tribunal observes that, under the compensation scheme applicable in the event of illness attributable to official duty established by Article 8.3 of the Staff Regulations, which is the sole legal basis for the complainant’s compensation claim, the ILO incurs strict liability when such an illness is recognised but is not held negligent. While the award of compensation under this scheme does not rule out the possibility that the Organization may also be accused of negligence, the question of whether it is liable on that other basis is in principle a separate dispute (see, for example, Judgments 4222, consideration 15, 3946, consideration 17, and 3111, consideration 8). Consequently, the complainant is not in any event entitled, in the present case, to submit for the first time before the Tribunal claims based on the existence of such negligence.

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 3111, 3946, 4222

    Keywords:

    compensation; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4473


    133rd Session, 2022
    European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant contests the decision not to recognise his son’s condition as a “serious illness” within the meaning of the provisions governing reimbursement of medical expenses.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint dismissed; dependent child; health insurance; illness; insurance benefits; motivation; motivation of final decision;



  • Judgment 4324


    130th Session, 2020
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The applicant seeks execution in full of Judgments 3045 and 3792 and recognition that the disease which led to his invalidity status is occupational.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    application for execution; complaint dismissed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4298


    130th Session, 2020
    Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to reject his claim for compensation for a service-incurred disability.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    case sent back to organisation; complaint allowed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4246


    129th Session, 2020
    World Intellectual Property Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the non-recognition of her illnesses as occupational illnesses.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint dismissed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4242


    129th Session, 2020
    World Health Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the decision not to consider her claim for compensation for illness attributable to the performance of official duties.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint dismissed; illness; internal remedies exhausted; receivability of the complaint; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4162


    128th Session, 2019
    United Nations Industrial Development Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the final decision on her claim for compensation for a service-incurred injury or illness.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint allowed; decision quashed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 4127


    127th Session, 2019
    European Organization for Nuclear Research
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant filed an application for review of Judgment 3994.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    application for review; complaint dismissed; illness; service-incurred; summary procedure;



  • Judgment 4093


    127th Session, 2019
    World Health Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant filed an application for execution of Judgment 3689.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    application for execution; complaint allowed; illness;



  • Judgment 4051


    126th Session, 2018
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to dismiss him for misconduct.

    Consideration 11

    Extract:

    The President’s decision to request the complainant to undergo a further medical examination to determine whether his medical condition may have guided his behaviour and affected his accountability for his actions accorded with the exercise of the EPO’s duty of care towards the complainant, as was recently explained by the Tribunal in Judgment 3972.

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 3972

    Keywords:

    disciplinary measure; duty of care; illness;



  • Judgment 4035


    126th Session, 2018
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant accuses her former supervisor of moral harassment.

    Consideration 10

    Extract:

    Neither can the Tribunal accept the complainant’s argument of “arrogation by the Administration of medical expertise”, which relates to the statement made by the Administration in the reply brief that it submitted to the Appeals Board that she suffered from a “feeling of persecution”. Indeed, it cannot be inferred from this statement, as the complainant does, that the Organization thus intended to make a medical assessment of her state of health and to insinuate that she suffered from mental health problems.

    Keywords:

    appraisal of facts; illness;



  • Judgment 3998


    126th Session, 2018
    World Intellectual Property Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the decision not to grant her compensation pending a determination by a medical expert as to whether her illness in 2012 through 2014 was service-incurred.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    compensation; complaint dismissed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 3994


    126th Session, 2018
    European Organization for Nuclear Research
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges CERN’s refusal to recognise the illness from which she says she suffers as occupational.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint allowed; illness; service-incurred;

    Consideration 5

    Extract:

    The Tribunal recalls that according to consistent precedent, it may not replace the medical findings of medical experts with its own assessment. However, it does have full competence to say whether there was due process and to examine whether the medical reports on which administrative decisions are based show any material mistake or inconsistency, overlook some essential fact or plainly misread the evidence (see, for example, Judgment 1284, under 4).

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1284

    Keywords:

    illness; judicial review; medical examination; medical opinion;



  • Judgment 3972


    125th Session, 2018
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant impugns the decision to impose upon him the disciplinary measure of dismissal for misconduct.

    Consideration 15

    Extract:

    While, in the present case, the Disciplinary Committee, but not the President when deciding initially to dismiss the complainant, did advert to the possibility that the complainant was suffering from a mental illness, it discounted entirely the possible nexus because the information available was insufficient. In circumstances such as the present, the President’s response to the complainant’s request for review was inadequate. The Tribunal concluded in Judgment 3887 that the EPO breached its duty of care towards the complainant in that case. So it is in this case as well. That duty of care would involve the EPO assessing whether the alleged misconduct can be entirely explained by the complainant’s mental illness, and also whether the complainant was entitled to benefits based on an invalidity stemming from his mental illness and perhaps his service with the EPO.

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 3887

    Keywords:

    disciplinary measure; duty of care; illness;



  • Judgment 3969


    125th Session, 2018
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant contests the EPO’s decision to impose upon her the disciplinary measure of downgrading.

    Consideration 17

    Extract:

    The ultimate decision to impose a serious disciplinary sanction was made in circumstances where the complainant was incapacitated by serious mental health issues. This should be reflected in the amount of those damages. The Tribunal assesses those damages in the sum of 30,000 euros.

    Keywords:

    disciplinary measure; illness; moral injury;



  • Judgment 3951


    125th Session, 2018
    United Nations Industrial Development Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to reject her claims for compensation for service-incurred injury or illness.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint dismissed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 3919


    125th Session, 2018
    World Health Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant impugns the Director-General’s decision to reject her claim for compensation for service-incurred illness.

    Considerations 13 & 14

    Extract:

    Contrary to WHO’s assertion, there is no evidence to support its contention of the ACCC having made a thorough analysis. [...]
    [I]t is observed that in arriving at the conclusion that there were no valid reasons for the claim to be accepted for consideration, the Director-General did not take into consideration that the progressive nature of the complainant’s illness and all of her relevant surrounding personal circumstances presented valid reasons for making the claim for compensation on the date that she did.

    Keywords:

    compensation; evidence; illness;

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    case sent back to organisation; complaint allowed; decision quashed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 3910


    125th Session, 2018
    International Atomic Energy Agency
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant challenges the IAEA’s refusal to recognise his illness as service-incurred.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    case sent back to organisation; complaint allowed; decision quashed; illness; service-incurred;



  • Judgment 3791


    123rd Session, 2017
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
    Summary: The complainant impugns the implied rejection of her internal appeal against the EPO’s refusal to recognise her medical condition as an occupational disease and to reimburse her for the relevant medical expenses which she incurred.

    Judgment keywords

    Keywords:

    complaint dismissed; health insurance; illness; medical expenses; service-incurred;

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