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UNAT considered an application to UNAT contesting the Conciliation Committee’s decision to recommend compensation of USD 35,000. UNAT dismissed the motion of Ms Cohen seeking reconsideration of a UNAT Order granting the ICJ Registrar additional time to file his answer. On Ms Cohen’s application for permission to reply to the ICJ Registrar’s answer on the grounds that neither the ICJ Registrar nor the Conciliation Committee addressed the testimony on record in their decisions, UNAT considered that exceptional circumstances existed and granted the motion. UNAT held that, absent a successful conciliation and settlement agreement as contemplated in the ICJ Staff Regulations, Ms. Cohen was permitted to make an application to the UNAT to determine if the administrative decision was in breach of contract entitling her to compensation as an effective remedy for the proven harassment. UNAT held that the implied administrative decision to deny Ms. Cohen compensation for the harm she suffered denied her the effective remedy to which she was contractually entitled under ST/SGB/2008/5 and that, accordingly, there was a legal basis for her claim for compensation before UNAT. UNAT held that the ICJ was in breach of its duty to protect its employees from discrimination and harassment. UNAT held that Ms. Cohen presented no evidence to support her claim for loss of earning capacity or her loss of future job prospects. UNAT held that relocation expenses would have been incurred under other circumstances as she was locally recruited and, as such, could not be considered to be a loss caused by her injury, noting that her decision to relocate was made voluntarily and there was an insufficient causal link between that decision and any harassment she suffered. UNAT held that her allegations of procedural fairness relating to delay in processing her complaint were not materially prejudicial as she was either on paid leave or receiving disability benefit and did not suffer any financial prejudice resulting from the delays. UNAT considered there was no justifiable basis to refer for accountability as the wrongdoing in the case was primarily that of Ms Cohen’s supervisor. UNAT awarded Ms Cohen compensation in the amount of one year’s net base salary.