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MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CIVIL DISTURBANCES: THE LEGAL BASIS

01 January 1991

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MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CIVIL DISTURBANCES: THE LEGAL BASIS
CONSIDERED
refdoc July=1991

JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 003627
S C Greer
Public Law, Winter 1983 pp573-599

Detailed analysis of the legal powers available to the
civil authorities at local and national level in this regard,
and those available to the army itself. Includes considerable
historical discussion of the constitutional position of the
military and its use by the magistracy to quell civil disorder,
as well as the legal standing of the military vis-a-vis the civil
power. 86 notes and refs

United Kingdom, state of emergency, armed services, local
authority, central government, public disorder, riot,
statutory power, case law

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