From the United Nations Administrative Tribunal to the United Nations Appeals Tribunal – Reform of the Administration of Justice System within the United Nations

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 447-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
August Reinisch ◽  
Christina Knahr
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administrative Tribunal

scholarly journals The Reform of the United Nations Administration of Justice System: The United Nations Appeals Tribunal after One Year

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Otis ◽  
Eric H. Reiter
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Justice System ◽  
First Year ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
One Year ◽  
Formal Justice

Abstract This article surveys some emerging issues in the jurisprudence of the new United Nations Appeals Tribunal. Through an analysis of both procedural and substantive questions that the tribunal has faced in its first year (for example specific performance, production of documents, and whistleblower protection), the article offers an assessment of the implementation of the reform of the formal justice system of the United Nations. The developing jurisprudence of the tribunal will be an important indicator of the success or failure of the implementation of an independent system of justice within the United Nations.

Reform of the Administration of Justice System at the United Nations

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Hwang
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Justice System ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
New System

AbstractFor nearly six decades, the administration of justice system at the United Nations has been comprised primarily of the Joint Appeals Boards, the Joint Disciplinary Committees and the UN Administrative Tribunal. In July 2009, these bodies will be dismantled and replaced with an entirely new system. This article will first describe the basic features of the administration of justice system at the United Nations that existed prior to July 2009. It will then review the history of efforts to reform the system, leading up to the proposals of the Redesign Panel issued in August 2006. It will also look at similar initiatives implemented by other intergovernmental organizations to reform their own internal justice systems in recent years. Finally, the article will highlight the main elements of the new administration of justice system, as approved by the General Assembly in 2007-2008, and examine its implications for UN staff members in the future.

The United Nations Administrative Tribunal

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Friedmann ◽  
Arghyrios A. Fatouros
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administrative Tribunal

The development, in size as well as importance, of the international civil service is a relatively recent phenomenon in the international scene. One of its consequences is an increase in die number of problems that may and do arise between an international organization and the members of its staff. Such problems exist in all civil services, national as well as international; they arise in relation to the legal position of the service officials, to their dismissals and promotions (or lack of them), to disciplinary measures against any of them, to their salaries, leaves of absence and other such administrative “details”. On all such questions, the views on which the organization, as represented by its higher administrative officers, bases its actions, may differ from the views of the officials concerned. The facts in each case may be in dispute, or the meaning of the terms and provisions of the contracts of employment and the regulations of the service, may be understood in different ways by die parties concerned.

1986 UNAT Elections

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 720-721
Author(s):  
T. M. F.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Administrative Tribunal

The United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT) has elected Herbert Reis of the United States, a former Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, as its Second Vice-President for the coming year. Mr. Reis has served on the tribunal for 5 years. Samar Sen of India and Arnold Kean of the United Kingdom were elected President and First Vice-President of the tribunal, respectively.

International Court of Justice

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-256
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administrative Tribunal

Effect of Awards of Compensation Made by the United Nations Administrative Tribunal: On December 9, 1953, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on the following questions: 1) has the General Assembly the right to refuse to give effect to an award of compensation made by the Administrative Tribunal in favor of a United Nations staff member whose contract of service had been terminated without his assent? and 2) if the Court's answer to the first question was in the affirmative, what were the principal grounds on which the Assembly could lawfully exercise such a right? After copies of this resolution were transmitted to the Court by a letter of the Secretary-General (Hammarskjold) dated December 16, the Court fixed March 15, 1954, as the time-limit within which written statements might be submitted by any state entitled to appear before it or any international organization considered by the president as likely to be able to furnish information on these questions, and reserved the rest of the procedure for further decision. Members of the United Nations and the International Labor Organization were then notified that, in accordance with Article 66 (2) of the Statute, the president considered them likely to be able to furnish such information.

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