ABSTRACT
This chapter recounts a small miracle of reform in the history of the United Nations (UN), namely the sweeping away of an obsolete and dysfunctional administrative arrangement, and its replacement by a modern internal justice system. It was not until the Millennium Development Goals were announced in 2000 that some awareness dawned that the UN administration was not fit for the purpose of carrying them out. The bizarre nonbinding quality of Joint Appeals Boards (JAB) and United Nations Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) adjudications not only meant that the internal justice system was seriously biased against staff. In UN elections, the merits of candidates are usually irrelevant, which is why the Internal Justice Council (IJC) pre-selection is such an important innovation. The United Nations internal justice system could be offered to the consumers of UN services the outsiders who stay out in the cold because of the UN's immunities.
