Tokens: In
terms
of
their
own
criminal
law
,
the
applicants
were
the
co
-
conspirators
in
a
large
and
consistent
conspiracy
to
disregard
the
objective
meaning
of
the
law
on
the
statute
book
,
meaning
that
they
co
-
conspired
to
create
and
maintain
a
two
-
faced
situation
in
which
the
so
-
called
“
State
practice
”
of
impunity
and
even
of
rewarding
the
criminal
behaviour
of
other
co
-
conspirators
was
in
unqualified
contradiction
with
the
formal
language
of
the
relevant
criminal
statutes
.
The
distinctive
characteristic
of
this
case
is
that
it
was
the
applicants
themselves
who
were
“
the
public
officer[s
]
or
[
members
of
the
]
body
charged
by
law
with
responsibility
for
the
interpretation
,
administration
or
enforcement
of
the
law
defining
the
offence
”
.
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