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Parliament's Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018, 272 pp (£70.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-50-990287-3.

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Parliament's Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018, 272 pp (£70.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-50-990287-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2019

Mark Bennett*
Affiliation:
School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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References

1 See eg Strong, JWhy parliament now decides on war: tracing the growth of the parliamentary prerogative through Syria, Libya and Iraq’ (2015) 17 BJPIR 604Google Scholar. See also G Phillipson ‘“Historic” commons’ Syria vote: the constitutional significance: part I’ (2013), available at https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2013/09/19/gavin-phillipson-historic-commons-syria-vote-the-constitutional-significance-part-i/.

2 Hansard HC Deb, vol 401, cols 902–11, 18 March 2003.

3 Cabinet Office The Cabinet Manual: A Guide to Laws, Conventions and Rules on the Operation of Government (London: Cabinet Office, 2011) paras 5.36–5.38Google Scholar.

4 Fikfak, V and Hooper, HJ Parliament's Secret War (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018) p 3Google Scholar.

5 Ibid, p v. The authors explain at p 23 that, for the purposes of the book, the term ‘war’ is to be interpreted as synonymous with terms such as ‘military action’, ‘armed response’, and ‘use of force’.

6 Ibid, p 3.

7 Ibid, pp 22–23.

8 Griffith, JAGThe political constitution’ (1979) 42 MLR 1 at 19CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Parliament's Secret War, above n 4, p 22.

10 See eg Griffith, above n 8, at 16.

11 Parliament's Secret War, above n 4, p 65.

12 Ibid, p 106.

13 Ibid, p 103.

14 Ibid, p 137.

15 Ibid, p 137.

16 Ibid, p 146.

17 Ibid, p 151.

18 Ibid, p 138.

19 Ibid, p 175.

20 Ibid, p 148.

21 Ibid, pp 141–146.

22 Ibid, p 141.

23 Griffith, above n 8, at 16.

24 Parliament's Secret War, above n 4, p 187 (emphasis added).

25 See eg Tomkins, AWhat's left of the political constitution?’ (2013) 14 German Law Journal 2275CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

26 Parliament's Secret War, above n 4, p v.