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Sebastian Payne: Parliament’s role in conflict decisions
On the 17th May 2011 the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee produced a short report, ‘Parliament’s Role in Conflict Decisions’ (Eighth Report of Session 2010-12 HC 923) The Committee...
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Gavin Phillipson: “Historic” Commons’ Syria vote: the constitutional...
In Part I of this blog post I set out in detail the reasoned case for my opinion that, following the Syria vote in August 2013, there is a constitutional Convention to the effect that ‘the Government...
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Veronika Fikfak: Voting on Military Action in Syria
Next week Members of Parliament will debate and vote on whether to support the Government’s proposal to extend military action against Islamic State (IS) to Syria. On Thursday, the Prime Minister made...
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Hayley J. Hooper: Voting on Military Action in Syria: Part II
This post is intended as a follow on to Veronika Fikfak’s recent post on the international law dimensions of armed conflict as they affect the role of the UK Parliament. Recent reports suggest that a...
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Gavin Phillipson: Voting on Military Action in Syria: A Reply
Dr Veronika Fikfak and Dr Hayley J. Hooper make some valuable points in their two part post on today’s vote on whether to expand British military action against ISIL to Syrian territory. I do not have...
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Gavin Phillipson: ‘Historic’ Commons’ Syria vote: the constitutional...
Does the recent vote in the House of Commons on military action against Syria have real constitutional significance? Is it the final piece of evidence that there is a constitutional convention that the...
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Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J. Hooper: Whither the War Powers Convention? What...
A. Introduction and Background On Friday 13 April 2018 the Royal Air Force participated in air strikes (together with the United States and France) to degrade the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons...
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Mark Bennett: The Ever-Expanding ‘Emergency’ Exception: Syria, the War Powers...
Introduction In a recent post on this blog, Veronika Fikfak and Hayley Hooper outlined the implications of the UK’s military intervention in Syria, on 13 April 2018, vis-à-vis the so-called War Powers...
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Tanzil Chowdhury: Statutorising UK Military Deployments and Assessing...
The paramount anxieties that emerge from attempts to statutorising Parliament’s role in making decisions on whether to commit military action abroad has not just been to do with deferring power from...
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