Your offices shall have been nugatory.

The illegality, for example, of the possession of biological weapons in the form of munitions renders a method to account for their storage or transport as nugatory.

Views nugatory and futile. In the present case, the author alleges that her son was denied his rights under various articles of the Covenant.

The question was not, however, whether it had been necessary to exclude the author from parliamentary precincts, since that would amount to an inquiry into the rightfulness or wrongness of the decision, which would render any existing privilege nugatory.

5.3 The authors argue that if the Attorney-General could deviate, in article 121 proceedings, from constitutional advice earlier provided, the whole purpose of the earlier advice would be rendered nugatory.

The Special Rapporteur supports the view that every human being is entitled to the full respect of his or her human rights and fundamental freedoms, in respect of which not only States, but also other actors, must not act in a way that would render nugatory the rights in question.

Apart from any violation of the Covenant found against a State party in a communication, a State party commits grave breaches of its obligations under the Optional Protocol if it acts to prevent consideration by the Committee of a communication alleging a violation of the Covenant, or to render examination by the Committee moot and the expression of its Views nugatory and futile.

According to C. Wickremasinghe, “[i]t appears that under the doctrine of State immunity, other State officials [other than heads of State, heads of government and ministers for foreign relations] enjoy immunity ratione materiae for their official acts from the jurisdiction of the courts of other States, where the effect of proceedings would be to undermine or render nugatory the immunity of the employer”.

In case No. 1416/2005 (Alzery v. Sweden), the Committee recalled that a State party was obliged to permit the exercise in good faith of the right of complaint to the Committee conferred by the Optional Protocol, and to refrain from steps which would render a decision on the communication nugatory and futile.

“Apart from any violation of the rights under the Covenant, the State party commits a serious breach of its obligations under the Optional Protocol if it engages in any acts which have the effect of preventing or frustrating consideration by the Committee of a communication alleging any violation of the Covenant, or to render examination by the Committee moot and the expression of its Views nugatory and futile.