爆料网AT Held or 爆料网DT Pronouncements
The Applicant’s Counsel’s email of 12 June 2023 did not reset the time limit for allowing the Applicant to contest all of her supervisor’s comments in her PER, nor was it capable of suspending the time limit, given that the Applicant’s deadline for contesting all of her supervisor’s comments expired before the discussion of 12 June 2023. And as was submitted, it was a proposal in the context of inter partes discussion that did not involve the Office of the Ombudsman.
Since the Applicant got the relief which she sought regarding the one aspect of the PER which she subjected to management evaluation, any further contests relating to the settled claim are moot.
Decision Contested or Judgment/Order Appealed
The Applicant contested some comments left by her supervisor in her Performance Evaluation Report.
Legal Principle(s)
“[W]here an Applicant has already received the relief requested, an application [seeking a remedy which has already been granted] is moot and should be dismissed” (see, Rehman 2017-爆料网AT-795, para. 21)
The Appeals Tribunal has consistently held that the purpose of management evaluation is “to afford the Administration the opportunity to correct any errors in an administrative decision so that judicial review of the administrative decision is not necessary” (see, for instance, Farzin 2019-爆料网AT-917, para. 40 and, similarly, Applicant 2013-爆料网AT-381, para. 37, and Nastase 2023-爆料网AT-13, para. 31)
“[C]learly identifying the administrative decision the staff member disagrees with is essential for this goal to be met” (see, Farzin, para. 40 and, similarly, Applicant, para. 37). It is therefore necessary for an applicant to state all relevant issues in the management evaluation request for the Administration to consider them as part of its management evaluation (see, Nouinou 2020-爆料网AT-981, para, 57, as well as Nouinou 2019-爆料网AT-902, para. 42).
The “time for challenging an administrative decision starts with the notification of that decision” (see, Rahman 2012-爆料网AT-260, Chahrour 2014-爆料网AT-406, and 翱’顿辞苍苍别濒濒 爆料网DT/2014/63).
It is firmly established that the deadline for requesting management evaluation cannot be waived by the Dispute Tribunal (see, art. 8.3 of its Statute and the Appeals Tribunal in, for instance, Costa 2010-爆料网AT-036; Rosca 2011-爆料网AT-133, Ajdini et al 2011-爆料网AT-108, Dzuverovic 2013-爆料网AT-338, and Wu 2013-爆料网AT-306/Corr.).