Judgment No. 4320
Decision
The complaint is dismissed.
Summary
The complainant challenges the decision to reject her application for a vacant post on the grounds that, as the holder of a fixed-term contract, she was not eligible to participate in the competition process.
Judgment keywords
Keywords
cause of action; selection procedure; complaint dismissed
Consideration 8
Extract:
[W]ell-established principles of statutory interpretation [were] recently reiterated by the Tribunal in Judgment 4178, consideration 10. The Tribunal stated: “The primary rule is that words are to be given their obvious and ordinary meaning (see, for example, Judgments 3310, consideration 7, and 2276, consideration 4). Additionally, as the Tribunal stated in Judgment 3734, consideration 4, ‘[i]t is the obvious and ordinary meaning of the words in the provision that must be discerned and not just a phrase taken in isolation’.”
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2276, 3310, 3734, 4178
Keywords
interpretation; interpretation of rules
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