British Overseas Territories Law - Hardcover

The authors are perfectly positioned to write a study dedicated to the British overseas territories in the post-colonial world as they played a central role in negotiating the new constitutions (which are, legally speaking, Her Majesty's Orders in Council) for a great number of the exotic places they now write about. ...it is... reliable and comprehensive; exactly what one would expect of a practitioners book, which is what the authors aimed at writing. Buy this book before it is out of stock -- Dimitry Kochenov * Common Market Law Review, Volume 49, 5 * Ian Hendry and Susan Dickson's book on British Overseas Territories Law is a welcome and comprehensive review of the law in this area. It is a manual of law and practice, well organised and clearly written, dealing with a wide range of issues including sources of law, constitutional arrangements, relationships between the executive, judiciary and legislature, human rights protection, nationality and status, as well as the territories' status in international and EU law...And with a nod to Roberts-Wray, the book includes a very useful annex describing the arrangements in each specific territory. Already regarded by some as the definitive authority, I am grateful to the authors for their efforts and ability to provide what I have no doubt is the essential text for those who have an interest in this area. -- Lorna Drummond QC * Journal of the Law Society of Scotland * The authors are legal advisers at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Offices and are probably among a very small number of persons now capable of producing a work of this nature. They should be congratulated for doing so. The fruits of their endeavours easily matches the standards set by any of their predecessors. ...the inherent quality of the work will ensure that this book will be an invaluable resource for students, practitioners and academics for many decades to come. -- Thomas Mohr * Irish Jurist *

This is a manual of law and practice relating to the 14 remaining British overseas territories: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus; Turks and Caicos Islands; and Virgin Islands. Most, if not all, of these territories are likely to remain British for the foreseeable future, and many have agreed modern constitutional arrangements with the British Government. This book provides a comprehensive description of the main elements of their governance in law and practice, and of the constitutional and international status of the territories. It describes their constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom, and goes on to deal with legislative, executive and judicial authority and controls, their sources of law and human rights protection in the territories. It considers the Offices of the Governor and the Law Officers of the Territories. It analyses defence, security and emergency powers in the territories; the nationality and status of people 'belonging' to them; their public finance arrangements; their relationship with the European Union; and the conduct of their external relations. It examines the position of the territories under international law, including their relationship with the United Kingdom in that context and the United Kingdom's international responsibility for them, and contains a description of the means of terminating British sovereignty over them. An Annex sets out key features of each territory in turn, describing briefly its history, status, constitutional structure, courts, law, economy and, in some cases, regional integration.