This book is based on a real case law at the European Court of Justice, T-434/19, in which the author was the party and indirectly the representative. She took the European Commission to Court as part of the judicial remedies of a recruitment process for permanent AD7 officials of the European Commission. In her writings before the Court she notes "To conclude that the selection board had unlimited discretionary power which is covered by secrecy and no duty to state reasons, would deprive Art. 270 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union of all meaning". Her action in annulment was admitted by the Court in July 2019 and the procedure lasted until September 2022. This is the story, as lived by the applicant.