44According to settled case-law, under the second sentence of Article 91(1) of the Staff Regulations, the General Court has, in disputes of a financial character, unlimited jurisdiction, pursuant to which it has the power, if need be, of its own motion to order the defendant to pay compensation for the damage caused by the defendant’s wrongful act and, in such a case, taking account of all of the circumstances of the case, to assess the damage suffered ex aequo et bono (see, inter alia, Case 24/79 Oberthür v Commission [1980] ECR 1743, paragraph 14; Joined Cases 176/86 and 177/86 Houyoux and Guery v Commission [1987] ECR 4333, paragraph 16; Case C-90/95 P de Compte v Parliament [1997] ECR I-1999, paragraph 45; and Case C-348/06 P Commission v Girardot [2008] ECR I-833, paragraph 58).
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