If you do not receive a reply to your letter within one month, you then have one month in which to prepare and submit your appeal.
e.g. NY Appellant sent her letter to the Secretary-General on 4 January and by 4 February she still had no reply. She has until 4 March to prepare and submit her appeal (Staff Rule 111.2(a)(i) and (ii)).

2(b).  If you are stationed outside New York:
If you receive a reply to your letter within two months, you then have one month in which to prepare and submit your appeal.
e.g. Field Appellant sent his letter to the Secretary-General on 4 January and received a reply on 20 February. He has until 20 March to prepare and submit his appeal.

If you do not receive a reply to your letter within two months, you then have one month in which to prepare and submit your appeal.
e.g. Field Appellant sent his letter to the Secretary-General on 4 January and by 4 March he still had no reply. He has until 4 April to prepare and submit his appeal (Staff Rule 111.2(a)(i) and (ii)).

3.  Prepare your statement of appeal. If you would like counsel for assistance, you may contact the UN Panel of Counsel, which provides counsel at no charge, or your may retain private counsel at your own expense. Your statement should contain only information relevant to support your argument. Likewise, your claim for a remedy should be proportional to your actual damages. Be sure to attach copies of any documents directly relevant to your case (e.g. the decision itself, memos between you and the decision maker, expense receipts, etc.). Always number each attachment and include an index of those attachment along with your statement of appeal. For more complete information, see JAB Rule III.J.1. Ordinarily, statements of appeal should not exceed ten pages, excluding attachments. Be sure to include with your submission a copy of your letter to the Secretary-General requesting review (see paragraph 2) and a completed JAB form from appendix A of the JAB Rules. For the sake of a greener environment, we encourage you to submit your documents double-sided and with standard-sized typefaces. Finally, send everything in six copies to the following address:

4.  Upon receipt, the JAB will review your submission to ensure that the procedures outlined above have been followed. If acceptable, your appeal will be logged in, assigned a case number and a copy will be forwarded to the Respondent for a reply. You (or your counsel) will receive an acknowledgment of receipt by the JAB which will include the case number. When communicating with the JAB after this time, please refer to your case by its number.

5.  The Respondent will submit a reply to your statement of appeal to the JAB in six copies. We will forward one copy to you (or your counsel) and file the others.

6.  After reviewing the Respondent's reply to your statement of appeal, you may wish to comment on the reply. Such comments are called observations and should introduce no additional material beyond the scope of the Respondent's reply. If you are stationed in New York, you have one month in which to submit your observations; elsewhere, you have two months (JAB Rule III.J.5). Once again, please send six copies. If you have no comments on the reply, your case will proceed more quickly if you send a note to the JAB informing us of your intention not to submit observations.

7.  The Respondent may wish to comment on your observations, and you may wish to comment on the Respondent's comments on your observations. The time limit for each of these submissions is two weeks for Appellants stationed in New York, and one month for those stationed elsewhere (JAB Rule III.K.1). Please be aware that each additional submission will slow down the progress of your appeal, so be sure that materials submitted at this point contain neither new issues nor information stated previously (JAB Rule III.K.2).

Updated 4 November 2003.
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