The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held that while the accession of Sri Lanka to the ICCPR was legal and valid and bound Sri Lanka to international law, it created no additional justiciable rights for Sri Lankans without the relevant domestic enabling legislation. The Court also declared that Sri Lanka’s　accession to the First Optional Protocol of the ICCPR was unconstitutional. However, in a 2008 advisory opinion, the Court said that the legal code and common law of Sri Lanka nevertheless afforded the same protections as those of the ICCPR.