Misuse of authority (571, 572, 927,-666)
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Judgment 829
62nd Session, 1987
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 22
Extract:
Vide Judgment 831, consideration 22.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 831
Keywords:
abuse of power; adjustment; icsc decision; judicial review; misuse of authority; post adjustment; salary; suspensive action;
Judgment 828
62nd Session, 1987
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 21
Extract:
See Judgment 831, consideration 22.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 831
Keywords:
abuse of power; adjustment; icsc decision; judicial review; misuse of authority; post adjustment; salary; suspensive action;
Judgment 827
62nd Session, 1987
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 22
Extract:
See Judgment 831, consideration 22.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 831
Keywords:
abuse of power; adjustment; icsc decision; judicial review; misuse of authority; post adjustment; salary; suspensive action;
Judgment 826
62nd Session, 1987
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 22
Extract:
See Judgment 831, consideration 22.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 831
Keywords:
abuse of power; adjustment; icsc decision; judicial review; misuse of authority; post adjustment; salary; suspensive action;
Judgment 825
62nd Session, 1987
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 22
Extract:
See Judgment 831, consideration 22.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 831
Keywords:
abuse of power; adjustment; icsc decision; judicial review; misuse of authority; post adjustment; salary; suspensive action;
Judgment 807
61st Session, 1987
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 16-17
Extract:
"The sole and obvious purpose [of the impugned decisions] was to get rid of someone whose work was, in the administration's view, no longer satisfactory and whose presence was disrupting the section. The dismissal is therefore tainted with abuse of authority and the decisions challenged must be set aside."
Keywords:
abolition of post; abuse of power; conduct; grounds; misuse of authority; termination of employment; unsatisfactory service; working relations;
Judgment 805
61st Session, 1987
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
While acknowledging the complainants' right to strike, the Tribunal concludes that the organisation did not in this case exceed the proper scope of its authority. the number of staff ordered to work was relatively low with respect to the total number of staff members in the Office.
Keywords:
abuse of power; misuse of authority; requisition; right to strike; strike;
Judgment 756
59th Session, 1986
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
"The abolition was in fact just an expedient hurriedly found to put an end to the complainant's employment. That that is so is plain from evidence that shows the secretarial duties she had been performing were assigned to two others immediately after she left. Contrary to the telex sent to her on 21 August 1984 and informing her of the decision of 15 August, which said that her post was no longer considered necessary, in fact it was. the Tribunal accordingly holds that a mistaken and wrongful procedure was followed to end her contract and that the measure was therefore unlawful." The Tribunal orders the organization to reinstate the complainant.
Keywords:
abolition of post; abuse of power; contract; fixed-term; misuse of authority; reinstatement; termination of employment;
Judgment 675
56th Session, 1985
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Having served the organization since 1969, the complainant was seconded for two years to the UNDP in 1980. In 1982 the organization decided not to extend the appointment or the secondment. The Tribunal holds that the organization committed an error of law by assuming that a fixed-term appointment expires automatically on the specified expiration date, and an abuse of power for having terminated the complainant without stating its reasons. The award of damages reflects the especially grave moral injury sustained by the complainant.
Keywords:
abuse of power; contract; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; fixed-term; flaw; legitimate expectation; misuse of authority; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; secondment;
Considerations 8 & 13
Extract:
The failure to give a reason will in many cases lead to the conclusion either that the Director-General mistakenly thought that he held an arbitrary power to do as he liked or that his decision was in fact arbitrary or wrongly motivated.
[...]
The staff member is entitled to know the reason at the time; it is only with that knowledge that, when he is seeking other employment, he can answer the inquiries of prospective employers. In so far, however, as the complaint is based on abuse of power, it is relevant to know whether or not there was an unstated reason. But a statement that appears for the first time in the course of legal proceedings and then only as part of the argument cannot carry the same conviction as one that is immediately and readily given.
Keywords:
abuse of power; misuse of authority;
Judgment 636
54th Session, 1984
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The appeal is against a decision to fill a post for which the complainant had been rejected four months before. As such the appeal is unarguable unless it can be shown that the two events are linked. The complainant must show that the true reason for his rejection [...] was not his lack of qualification but was an abuse of power, being wrongly motivated by the intention to secure the appointment of [another official] in the following months. The evidence tendered [...] falls far short of this."
Keywords:
abuse of power; appointment; candidate; competition; lack of evidence; misuse of authority; vacancy;
Judgment 576
51st Session, 1983
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
The only point in favour of the complainant's claim [he says that he was transferred because of his trade union activities] is the suddenness of the decision, which came only a few days after he had attended meetings as a staff representative. "But the coincidence does not suffice to establish any misuse of authority. The circumstances of his [transfer] may be regrettable, but they have no effect on the lawfulness of the decision."
Keywords:
abuse of power; lack of evidence; misuse of authority; staff union activity; transfer;
Judgment 535
49th Session, 1982
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 5-7
Extract:
There would be abuse of authority if the grounds alleged by the organization to justify the appointment were a pretext; if the organization had appointed an official obviously less well qualified than the complainant; if the organization had shown favouritism to the appointed official at the expense of other candidates. No such charges are borne out by the evidence.
Keywords:
abuse of power; appointment; candidate; judicial review; misuse of authority; vacancy;
Judgment 523
49th Session, 1982
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
The Tribunal concludes that post 0155 was not abolished either in substance or in form and accordingly the complainant's contract of appointment was unlawfully terminated. The Tribunal finds it unnecessary to deal in detail with the arguments presented on this issue since it accepts also the complainant's argument that the abolition of post, if in this case it was effected, would be an abuse of power.
Keywords:
abuse of power; misuse of authority;
Judgment 507
48th Session, 1982
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The Tribunal granted that a rule allowed for dismissal in cases of economic problems of a permanent kind. No explanation of the circumstances which may have made staff reductions unavoidable is contained in the dossier. Although prudence might have led to such a measure, that would not suffice to bring the relevant clause into operation. "In supposing that it was [sufficient], the Director-General must have misconstrued the rule and thus been led to exceed his powers. The [dismissal] decision impugned was outside his authority and must be quashed on that ground."
Keywords:
abolition of post; abuse of power; contract; grounds; misuse of authority; permanent appointment; staff reduction; termination of employment;
Judgment 496
48th Session, 1982
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 36
Extract:
"It is enough to say that the absence of any evidence supporting the decision creates the suspicion that it was taken with improper motives and that such a suspicion is amply confirmed by consideration of the events leading up to it [...] The director wished to get rid of a [staff] committee which he believed to be unrepresentative. [...] The decision [...] can only be viewed either as an attempt to use coercion where persuasion had failed or as an expression of resentment at the failure. as such it is an abuse of power."
Keywords:
abuse of power; amendment to the rules; facilities; grounds; misuse of authority; staff union;
Consideration 34
Extract:
Within the limits determined by the organization's interests, "the Director has the widest discretion in determining the extent of the facilities which the organization offers to the staff association and in making from time to time such changes in them as he thinks to be desirable. Changes do not have to be negotiated and agreed [...]. [The Director] may not, as is the rule in all his decisions, act without taking all the relevant facts into consideration and he can hardly do that without ascertaining the views of the staff association. But after these have been considered, the decision is for him alone."
Keywords:
abuse of power; amendment to the rules; consultation; facilities; misuse of authority; organisation's duties; staff union;
Judgment 495
48th Session, 1982
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
"It is [...] established that in accordance with the principle of freedom of association officers and members of the staff association may act in furtherance of their common interests and shall not be penalised by the administration for any activity that is not otherwise improper. It is not disputed that any such penalisation would be an abuse of the Director's discretion and within the power of the Tribunal to review."
Keywords:
abuse of power; freedom of association; judicial review; misuse of authority; staff union activity;
Judgment 487
48th Session, 1982
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
The complainant's absence from duty for which the organization's medical officer thought the application of sick leave unjustified was set against annual leave; the complainant contends that it was in fact a disciplinary measure tainted with abuse of authority. "In the circumstances of this case the application of the [material rule] by analogy and the consequent exclusion of [another rule] which would have entailed disciplinary action [...] constitutes no abuse of authority, since that authority was not exercised for any unlawful purpose."
Keywords:
abuse of power; analogy; annual leave; enforcement; illness; misuse of authority; provision; refusal; sick leave; unauthorised absence;
Judgment 476
47th Session, 1982
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
"It is not established that the complainant's supervisors [in deciding in favour of the transfer] committed any abuse of authority, i.e. that they acted on considerations extraneous to the organization's interests."
Keywords:
abuse of power; lack of evidence; misuse of authority; transfer;
Judgment 451
46th Session, 1981
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 12
Extract:
"It is impossible to argue that the Director's failure to respond instantly and affirmatively to the complainant's demands [for transfer] amounted to an abuse of power."
Keywords:
abuse of power; misuse of authority; request for transfer;
Judgment 431
45th Session, 1980
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"There will be such misuse [of authority] when, though the decision is formally intra vires, authority is exercised for some improper purpose."
Keywords:
abuse of power; definition; misuse of authority;
Consideration 7
Extract:
In letting the interests of a Member State prevail over those of the organisation for no valid reason, the Director-General committed a misuse of authority which taints his decision not to renew the contract. The Tribunal need not consider whether the impugned decision is further tainted with any error of law.
Keywords:
abuse of power; contract; fixed-term; member state; misuse of authority; non-renewal of contract; organisation's interest;
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