Tag: Burma Oil Co.
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Campbell McLachlan QC: The Foreign Affairs Treaty Prerogative and the Law of the Land
A central plank in the reasoning of the Divisional Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2016] EWHC 2768 at [96] is that ‘Absent such authority from the ECA [European Communities Act] 1972 or other statutes, the Crown cannot through the exercise of its prerogative powers alter the domestic…