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including the timely delivery of judgments, and to report thereon to the General
Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
30. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to track the data on the
number of cases received by the Management Evaluation Unit and the Dispute
Tribunal in order to identify any emerging trends and to include his observations on
those statistics in future reports;
31. Requests that the judicial directions of the Dispute Tribunal and the
Appeals Tribunal that are of general application be posted online and thus made
available to all stakeholders, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon to
the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
32. Recalls paragraph 32 of its resolution 73/276 and that half-time judges are
to be deployed only as required by caseload, encourages the Dispute Tribunal to make
full use of telecommuting in the deployment of half-time judges so as to promote
efficiencies, and requests the Secretary-General to review and report on the use of the
six half-time judges to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
33. Notes the overall trend of increase in the workload of the Office of Staff
Legal Assistance, expresses its satisfaction that the majority of requests for legal
assistance received by the Office were settled or otherwise disposed of without
recourse to any formal mechanism, and acknowledges that the Office should be
adequately resourced;
34. Also notes the continuing high opt-out rates from the voluntary staff
funding mechanism, and in this regard encourages the Secretary-General to continue
to strengthen incentives for staff not to opt out, particularly in locations and United
Nations entities where the participation rate is low;
35. Requests the Secretary-General to provide further analysis and
clarification on the proposed amendments to articles 2 and 7 of the statute of the
Appeals Tribunal on pension matters, 9 and invites the Sixth Committee to consider
the legal aspects of the report of the Secretary-General on the administration of
justice, without prejudice to the role of the Fifth Committee as the Main Committee
of the General Assembly responsible for administrative and budgetary matters;
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Other issues
36. Invites the Sixth Committee to consider the legal aspects of the report to
be submitted by the Secretary-General, without prejudice to the role of the Fifth
Committee as the Main Committee entrusted with responsibilities for admini strative
and budgetary matters;
37. Stresses that the Internal Justice Council can help to ensure independence,
professionalism and accountability in the system of administration of justice, and
requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Council with including the views of both
the Dispute Tribunal and the Appeals Tribunal in its reports;
38. Welcomes further views of the Internal Justice Council in its next report to
the General Assembly on possible ways to improve judicial and operational
efficiency;
39. Recalls paragraphs 36 and 37 of its resolution 62/228, and requests the
Secretary-General to provide an overview of and recommendations on the conditions
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