MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law

Ewing, K D; Mahoney, Joan; Moretta, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0198818629 / ISBN 13: 9780198818625

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2020

A propos de cet article

First edition, first impression. xii, 512pp. Black cloth boards, gilt-stamped lettering to spine. 8vo. Volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges. A very good copy indeed. An examination of the powers, activities and accountability of MI5 principally in the period from 1945 to 1964. Autoreactive and detailed but now very hard to find.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198818629
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198818625
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• Impression: 1st Impression
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • War, Military History and Weapons
  • History - British

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Synopsis

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. It argues that MI5 acted with neither statutory authority nor statutory powers, and with no obvious forms of statutory accountability. It was established as a counter-espionage agency, yet was beset by espionage scandals on a frequency that suggested if not high levels of incompetence, then high levels of distraction and the squandering of resources.

The book addresses the evolution of MI5's mandate after the Second World War which set out its role and functions, and to a limited extent the lines of accountability, the surveillance targets of MI5 and the surveillance methods that it used for this purpose, with a focus in two chapters on MPs and lawyers respectively; the purposes for which this information was used, principally to exclude people from certain forms of employment; and the accountability of MI5 or the lack thereof for the way in which it discharged its responsibilities under the mandate.

As lawyers the authors' concern is to consider these questions within the context of the rule of law, one of the core principles of the British constitution, the values of which it was the duty of the Security Service to uphold. Based on extensive archival research, it suggests that MI5 operated without legal authority or exceeded the legal authority it did have.

À propos de l?auteur

Keith Ewing is professor of public law at King's College London. He is co-editor of the Oxford Labour Law series and author of numerous books and articles, including Bonfire of the Liberties (OUP 2010) and The Struggle for Civil Liberties (OUP 2001).

Joan Mahoney now teaches at the University of Southampton, having taught for many years in the United States where she was Dean of Wayne State University Law School.

Andrew Moretta is a postgraduate research student at the University of Liverpool. He received his LLM from King's College London in 2012.