Interlocutory or interim appeal / Appeal of UNDT order to UNAT
Receivability
Suspension of action
Jurisdiction / receivability (UNAT)
Appeal
Interlocutory appeal
Jurisdiction / receivability (UNDT or first instance)
UNAT considered the appeal, in which the Secretary-General requested that UNAT consider the appeal receivable and find that UNDT exceeded its competence in ordering a suspension of action on the decision not to extend Mr Rawat’s appointment. UNAT noted that, in imminently executing the administrative order, UNDT failed to comply with the five-working-day limit, set forth in Villamoran (2011-UNAT-160), without giving any reasons for doing so and thus, clearly exceeded its competence. UNAT consequently held that the appeal against the contested order was receivable and founded. UNAT rescinded...