IN THE PROBATION REPORT .
9 ON RECEIVING THAT COMPLAINT , THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT REQUESTED SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE LIBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION DIRECTORATE AND THE HEAD OF THE LIBRARY DIVISION . IN A MEMORANDUM DATED 8 JULY 1982 , THE HEAD OF THE LIBRARY DIVISION STATED THAT DURING THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD THE APPLICANT ' S STATE OF MIND AND EFFICIENCY AT WORK WERE SUBJECT TO FREQUENT AND UNPREDICTABLE CHANGES , SHE WAS ABSENT FROM HER WORKPLACE FOR HOURS WITHOUT SAYING WHERE SHE WAS GOING , THAT BOOKS PILED UP REGULARLY WITHOUT BEING REPLACED ON THE SHELVES AND THAT REPLACEMENT THEREFORE REQUIRED ' ' A PHYSICAL EFFORT WHICH CAN SCARCELY BE ASKED OF A WOMAN ' ' , THAT BOOKS PUT ON TO THE SHELVES WERE NOT ARRANGED IN ANY ORDER , SO THAT CONSULTATION BECAME IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL THEY WERE EVENTUALLY SORTED OUT AND PUT BACK WHERE THEY BELONGED , AND FINALLY THAT RELATIONS WITH THE APPLICANT WERE DIFFICULT BOTH FOR HER COLLEAGUES WHO HAD TO STAND IN FOR HER AND FOR HER SUPERIORS , WHO COULD NOT MAKE HER FOLLOW THEIR INSTRUCTIONS . REPEATED WARNINGS GIVEN TO HER HAD MADE NO DIFFERENCE . THE HEAD OF THE LIBRARY DIVISION OBSERVED THAT IT WAS IN ORDER TO GIVE HER AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THAT HE HAD NOT ASKED FOR HER TO BE DISMISSED EVEN BEFORE THE END OF THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD .
10 THE DIRECTOR OF THE LIBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION DIRECTORATE , IN A MEMORANDUM OF THE SAME DATE , ADDED THAT THE APPLICANT WAS CARELESS , IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO ENTERING CARDS SHOWING WHICH BOOKS HAD BEEN BORROWED AND LOCKING THE LIBRARY DURING THE HOURS IN WHICH IT WAS NOT SUPERVISED .
11 THOSE ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS WERE COMMUNICATED TO THE APPLICANT ON 16 JULY 1982 . IN A MEMORANDUM DATED 29 JULY 1982 ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT , SHE REPLIED AT LENGTH .
12 HAVING REGARD TO ALL THE DOCUMENTS PUT BEFORE HIM , THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT ON 23 SEPTEMBER 1982 ADOPTED A REASONED DECISION REJECTING THE APPLICANT ' S COMPLAINT . IN THAT DECISION , THE PRESIDENT REFERRED TO THE ASSESSMENTS OF THE APPLICANT BY HER SUPERIORS AND STATED THAT THE PROBATION REPORT CONTAINED NO LESS THAN FOUR MARKS OF ' ' UNSATISFACTORY ' ' COMPARED WITH SIX OTHERS WHICH WERE ONLY ' ' SATISFACTORY ' ' . THE PRESIDENT THEN SET OUT IN THE FOLLOWING TERMS THE REASON FOR THE DECISION TAKEN : ' ' FREQUENT ABSENCES FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR REASONS OTHER THAN LEAVE DULY GRANTED , BACKLOGS OF BOOKS TO BE REPLACED , LACK OF METHOD , FAILURE TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE WARNINGS AND REMINDERS GIVEN BY SUPERIORS . ' '
13 THE APPLICANT BASES HER APPLICATION ON THREE SUBMISSIONS RELATING TO THE INFRINGEMENT OF ESSENTIAL PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS , MISUSE OF PROCEDURE AND UNLAWFUL SEX DISCRIMINATION . IN FACT , THOSE THREE SUBMISSIONS COVER TWO TYPES OF CRITICISM OF THE SUCCESSIVE DECISIONS ADOPTED IN