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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

Campbell McLachlan
Campbell McLachlan
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Victoria University of Wellington
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Summary

To hold that the court may turn a blind eye to executive lawlessness beyond the frontiers of its own jurisdiction is, to my mind, an insular and unacceptable view.

Lord Bridge of Harwich, ex p Bennett [1994] 1 AC 42, 67

Contesting the law’s exclusion

What is it about the conduct of the state in its external exercise of public power that provokes such controversy within contemporary Anglo-Commonwealth legal systems? The appellate courts are pressed on all sides with foreign relations issues – on the legality of foreign affairs decisions by the executive; on the protection of the individual affected by the foreign exercise of public power; on the extent of the duties of the state on behalf of its citizens affected by the public power of foreign states; on the external scope of public regulatory power; and on the treatment of the public interests of the foreign state in domestic litigation. Nor are the issues confined to the courts. The treatment of foreign relations has been a contemporary preoccupation of the legislature and in public inquiries.

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Foreign Relations Law , pp. 3 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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  • Campbell McLachlan, Victoria University of Wellington
  • Book: Foreign Relations Law
  • Online publication: 05 September 2014
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  • Book: Foreign Relations Law
  • Online publication: 05 September 2014
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034937.003
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