2011-Ģ��ƵAT-101

Ģ��ƵAT Held or Ģ��ƵDT Pronouncements

Ģ��ƵAT had before it: an application for interpretation of judgment No. 2010-Ģ��ƵAT-043 on the issue of to which Ģ��ƵDT Registry Ģ��ƵAT remanded Ms Mezoui��s case; two appeals from Ģ��ƵDT Order Nos. 71 (GVA/2010) and 73 (GVA/2010); and a motion for joinder and fast-track hearing. Ģ��ƵAT held that the application for interpretation was a ruse to have Ģ��ƵAT interfere with Ģ��ƵDT��s assignment of venue. Ģ��ƵAT held that venue was a matter for the trial court��s discretion, with which it would not interfere. Ģ��ƵAT held that it would not, generally, entertain interlocutory appeals. Ģ��ƵAT denied the application for interpretation as unnecessary and interlocutory. Ģ��ƵAT denied the motion for joinder of interlocutory appeals and their fast-track hearing as interlocutory and moot. Ģ��ƵAT denied all of Ms Mezoui��s interlocutory appeals.

Decision Contested or Judgment/Order Appealed

Previous Ģ��ƵAT judgment and Ģ��ƵDT orders: Ms Mezoui contested a determination by Ģ��ƵDT that her case was not receivable. In Judgment No. 2010-Ģ��ƵAT-043, Ģ��ƵAT remanded the case to Ģ��ƵDT for a hearing on the merits. In Order No. 71 (GVA/2010), Ģ��ƵDT ordered, inter alia, that the case be reopened, that a copy of a memorandum be transmitted to Ms Mezoui and that she must file a complete application to Ģ��ƵDT in Geneva by a certain date. In Order No. 73 (GVA/2010), Ģ��ƵDT rejected her motion for a change of venue.

Legal Principle(s)

Generally, Ģ��ƵAT will not entertain interlocutory appeals.

Outcome

Appeal dismissed on receivability

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Applicants/Appellants

Mezoui

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Tribunal

Registry