Judges of UNAT
UNAT is composed of seven Judges, appointed by the General Assembly. As one of the positions is vacant, the current composition of the Tribunal is as follows:
Sophia Adinyira, President (Ghana)
Justice Adinyira is the current President of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. She has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana since March 2006. Prior to that, she served as a judge of the Ghanaian Court of Appeal from 1999 to 2006 and before that, as a judge of the High Court of Ghana from 1989. She holds a law degree from the University of Ghana at Legon (1971). She is fluent in English and has a basic knowledge of French.
Kamaljit Singh Garewal, First Vice-President (India)
Judge Garewal was a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in India for nine years. He retired on 20 September 2009. Prior to his appointment as a High Court Judge he served as a District Judge for 14 years and gained vast experience in conducting civil and criminal trials. For three years he also worked as Registrar of Central Administrative Tribunal (Chandigarh Bench), which dealt with employment related disputes between the central government and it employees. He holds a law degree from Panjab University in Chandigarh (1970). He speaks fluent English, Hindi, and Punjabi.
Luis María Simón Second Vice-President (Uruguay)
Dr. Simón is currently a judge of the Civil Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Montevideo, a post he has held since 2002. His court has jurisdiction over, among other things, public sector employment and responsibility of State institutions. In the period from 1989 to 2002 he served as a judge at various courts with first instance and appellate jurisdiction (civil law), with particular jurisdiction over administrative law issues between 1991 and 1994. He has been a university professor in procedural law (civil and criminal) since 1985. Dr. Simón holds law degrees, including a doctorate (1983) from the Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay. His first language is Spanish. He has a good working knowledge of English and French and a basic knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.
Inés Weinberg de Roca, Judge (Argentina)
Judge Weinberg de Roca was the first President of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal (July 2009 - June 2010). She is currently a judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Administrative Court in the city of Buenos Aires. From 2003 to 2008, she was a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and from June 2003 to October 2005, she was designated as a member of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the ICTR. Previously, from 2000 to 2003, she served as advisor on international law to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She represented Argentina at various diplomatic conferences and was Argentina's representative to the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) until 2003. Judge Weinberg de Roca is currently Professor of Private International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires and Director of the German-Argentine Center of the University of Buenos Aires. She served as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute in Hamburg, Germany, and has authored several books and numerous publications. Judge Weinberg de Roca studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, and obtained her doctor juris from the University of La Plata, Argentina.
Jean Courtial, Judge (France)
Judge Courtial is currently a member of the Conseil d'Etat, which is the Supreme Court of the French administrative judicial system, a position he has held since 1996. He was appointed a Councilor of State in 2008. Prior to being appointed to the Conseil d'Etat, Judge Courtial served as a judge on various administrative tribunals. He also served as an associate professor of law at the University of Lyon. He holds a degree in public administration and administrative law from the National School of Administration (1982). His first language is French and he has a good knowledge of English and a basic knowledge of Spanish.
Mary Faherty, Judge (Ireland)
Judge Faherty is currently a judge of the Circuit Court of Ireland and a Member of a Tribunal of Inquiry established by Parliament, a position she has held since 2002. She was appointed Chairperson of the Employment Appeals Tribunal of Ireland in 1995 and served as a Vice Chairperson of the same Tribunal from 1989 – 1995. She served as an Equality Officer of the Labour Relations Commission in 1997. From 1999-2000 she was President of the European Association of Labour Court Judges. Judge Faherty graduated with a degree in Legal Science and German in 1982 from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and was conferred with an LLB degree in 1984. In 1980-1981 she studied German at the University of Freiburg on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. Judge Faherty was called to the Bar of Ireland in 1986 and to the Bar of England and Wales in 1996. In 2001 she was made Senior Counsel of the Inner Bar of Ireland .She holds a diploma in International Arbitration from University College Dublin and was appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1998. She has attended courses in Human Rights in Strasbourg and the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 2006 she received the Alumni Award for Law, Public Service and Government from NUIG. Her first language is English, she has a good knowledge of German and a basic knowledge of French.