Sentences with phrase «legality of military action»

The AG's legal advice on the legality of military action in Iraq in 2003 is invoked as an illustration of this issue.

The minutes to be released relate to two meetings held on March 7th and 17th 2003, in which then attorney general Lord Goldsmith's advice about the legality of military action was being considered.

Military contingency plans are already being drawn up by the Ministry of Defence despite question - marks remaining over the legality of any military action, the binding nature of any Commons vote and the government's intention to publish the evidence justifying an armed intervention.

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Many Labour MPs were shocked after he told me he would not be happy with the police or security forces shooting to kill on our streets, casting doubt over the legality of the strike on Jihadi John, and appearing to suggest that his MPs would not be allowed to vote with their conscience on any potential military action in Syria.

In 2000, however, the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs found that the war was illegal, though it offered by way of mitigation the conclusion that: «NATO's military action, if of dubious legality in the current state of international law, was justified on moral grounds.»

Cameron released a document that not only articulates the strategic necessity for military action against ISIS, but also outlines the Cameron administration's legal position regarding the legality of the proposed strikes under international law.