Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2016-01-19: Recours exercé contre l’ONA par le sieur Ronald Bazile pour fautes administratives graves, prises à son encontre par le directeur général de l’Office
Summary: The court's published summary of its judgment of 2016-01-19 in the following case: Recours exercé contre l’ONA par le sieur Ronald Bazile pour fautes administratives graves, prises à son encontre par le directeur général de l’Office National d’Assurance Vieillesse (ONA) Monsieur Bernard Degraff. The court sat in its administrative jurisdiction. The summary gives the facts, the texts applied and the operative ruling. The court publishes these summaries rather than the judgments themselves, and they are most of what is publicly available of Haitian financial and administrative case law.
Key Findings
- CSCCA ruled on Ronald Bazile's appeal against ONA after he was unexpectedly retired on 27 March 2013 and revoked for serious administrative faults on 3 April 2013.
- The Court found that the retirement measure was unlawful because retirement required 25 years of service and age 55, which was not Bazile's case.
- The Court also found that the revocation was not based on legally prescribed grounds such as abandonment of post, conviction to an afflictive and infamous penalty, or illicit enrichment.
- ONA, the Haitian state, the auditorat and the investigating judge raised jurisdiction objections, but the Court held that ONA is governed by administrative-law rules and its disputes fall under administrative jurisdictions.
- The Court declared itself competent and found Bazile's annulment appeal was brought within the article 31 deadline of the 4 November 1983 decree.
- The Court annulled the revocation, maintained annulment of the retirement decision, ordered Bazile's reinstatement as ONA director of operations and networks, and ordered ONA to pay lawyers' fees equal to 20 percent of indemnities due plus costs.
How to cite
Superior Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA), Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2016-01-19: Recours exercé contre l’ONA par le sieur Ronald Bazile pour fautes administratives graves, prises à son encontre par le directeur général de l’Office, https://cscca.gouv.ht/