2022-UNAT-1227, Ade Mamonyane Beatrice Lekotje
The Secretary-General appealed the UNDT Judgment.
The UNAT found that the UNDT failed to address OAI’s investigation report, the acceptance of which led to Ms. Lekoetje’s severance from service. The investigation report was an important evidential element which should have been, but was not, examined and analyzed by the Dispute Tribunal. The UNDT was wrong to have dismissed the allegations of misconduct against Ms. Lekoetje without considering the investigation report’s evidence of them.
Because of the intertwined natures of the two relationships between UNDP and Ms. Lekoetje (landlord...