ABSTRACT
Article 1 of the Optional Protocol (O.P.) states that the Committee can receive communications from individuals who claim to be victims of violations of rights set forth in the Covenant. The Committee said that 'provided each of the authors is a victim within the meaning of article 1 of the Optional Protocol, nothing precludes large numbers of persons from bringing a case under the Optional Protocol'. The normal position is that 'the communication should be submitted by the individual personally or by that individual's representative'. The Committee has found that the author of the communication lacked sufficient locus standi to submit a communication on behalf of others. Mr Errera attached his own individual opinion in which he expressed the view that the inadmissibility decision of the Committee had failed to address three particular questions which were fundamental to the interpretation of article 1(1) of the Covenant and article 1 of the O.P.
