2014-UNAT-471, Landgraf
The Appellant requested that the UNDT judgment be set aside and that the case be remanded to UNDT for a hearing de novo before a different judge. UNAT agreed with the Appellant鈥檚 submission that the relevant statute or rules of procedure do not prohibit an applicant from providing testimony and serving as a witness in their own case. UNAT noted that, while UNDT was required to administer the declaration prescribed in Article 17(3) of the UNDT RoP, UNDT鈥檚 failure to do so was not an error serious enough so as to affect the decision of the case. Conversely, UNAT found that UNDT鈥檚 refusal to...