The complainant seeks review of Judgment 1907 delivered on 3 February 2000. In that judgment the Tribunal dismissed his complaint against the OIE in which he sought the quashing of the Director General's decision of 26 February 1999 to dismiss him on the grounds that his services were no longer satisfactory. Prior to his dismissal he had erroneously reported accounting anomalies in one of the OIE's regional offices. As a rule, the Tribunal only seldom reviews its own judgments.
Judgments are final and no appeal mechanism exists for the unsuccessful complainant.
Furthermore, a review procedure is not expressly provided for in the Statute and Rules of the Tribunal. The Tribunal's judgments carry the authority of res judicata from the date on which it delivers them. Though subject to review thereafter, they will be reviewed only in exceptional cases. That is the rule under all judicial systems which allow review. It must therefore be made clear at the outset that several pleas in favour of review will not be allowed.