Judgment No. 2677

• Organization: International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Date: 06.02.2008
• Original: English
• Judges: Gaudron, Barbagallo, Hansen
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

1. The impugned decision of 7 November 2006 is annulled as is the earlier decision of 4 May 2006.
2. The matter is remitted to the ICC for redetermination of the complainant's step in accordance with consideration 5.
3. The ICC shall pay her 3,000 euros in costs.
4. The complaint is otherwise dismissed.

Consideration 2

Extract:

"The first issues in this case relate to when the ICC's administrative decision was communicated to the complainant [...]. The Tribunal is of the opinion that the decision was officially communicated to the complainant in the e-mail of 4 May 2006 from the Chief of Human Resources. [...] The preceding oral and written communications from various ICC staff members were simply courtesy replies to the questions the complainant posed [...]. [T]here was no communication of a decision until the complainant requested [...] an official letter from the ICC. Only in the ICC's reply [...] did a decision come to light."

Keywords

decision; date of notification