Key legal question
Whether the refusal to open a criminal investigation for endangering life, threats and coercion should be reviewed on the merits
Extracted holding
The complainants lacked standing to challenge the substance of the non-opening decision, and their factual and criminal-law arguments were inadmissible.
Extracted reasoning
As private complainants in an officio case, they had no standing under the applicable transitional federal rules unless the decision could affect civil claims, which they did not substantiate.