ABSTRACT

Mr Mobin Ahmed, Mr Dennis Perrin, Mr Ray Bentley and Mr David John Brough were employed in different capacities by various local authorities. Their complaints related to the enactment and implementation of legislative measures designed to limit the involvement of certain categories of local government officials, such as themselves, in political activities. They complained that the legislative measures operated to their detriment in a way that denied them their rights to freedom of expression (A 10) and of assembly (A 11) and their rights to participate fully in the electoral process (P1A1). Comm found by majority (13-4) V 10, not necessary to consider 11, unanimously NV P1A3.