At a time of increased tensions in Korea and elsewhere around the globe, a book-panel discussion of Parliament’s Secret War offers an opportunity to provide insights into how far the UK Parliament can hold the British Government accountable for decisions to use military force. The invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the UK Coalition Government’s...
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Reconceptualising prerogative powers after Miller
In the third paper, Gavin Phillipson will address some key questions raised but not resolved by the decisions in Miller and Bancoult (which concerned the exile of the Chagos Islanders). He will argue that, contrary to the traditional ‘residual‘ view, the prerogative is best seen today as a bundle of discrete powers, that this view...