Rectification of a clear but hard-to-detect calculation error

ATA/630/1997Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberOct 14, 1997Granted

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Omnilex summary

The Administrative Court granted an application to correct the dispositive part of one of its judgments. It considered that the mistake was a calculation error that was not immediately apparent but was nevertheless manifest. On that basis, the court held that rectification was possible at any time and admitted the correction.

Omnilex headnote

LPA 85; rectification of an operative part affected by a calculation error; a manifest error may be corrected even if it is difficult to detect. A correction proceeding is admissible where the error is objectively ascertainable from the file and the judgment itself, and where the requested correction does not amount to a substantive review of the merits but merely restores the court’s actual intent (consid. unspecified). The temporal admissibility of rectification is not restricted by ordinary deadlines when the defect is a patent clerical or computational mistake.

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; PREVOYANCE PROFESSIONNELLE; CALCUL; PRESTATION D'ASSURANCE(EN GENERAL); PROCEDURE ADMINISTRATIVE; ERREUR DE CALCUL; ACTION EN RECTIFICATION; PROC

Normes

LPA.85

Résumé

Le TA a admis la correction d'un dispositif d'arrêt sur la base d'une erreur de calcul difficile à déceler mais patente. Une telle rectification peut s'effectuer en tout temps.

Keywords

social insuranceprofessional pensioncalculation errorrectificationadministrative procedure

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Key legal question

Whether the operative part of the judgment could be rectified because of a calculation error.

Extracted holding

Yes. A calculation error that is hard to detect yet manifest may be corrected at any time.

Extracted reasoning

The court treated the error as an evident clerical/calculation mistake affecting the dispositive part and held that such rectification is not time-barred.

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