The recruitment of mercenaries and the Foreign Enlistment Act1870

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Joseph Jaconelli, Public Law, Autumn 1990, pp337-341. The legal position of British mercenaries in Angola and Colombia is discussed. The present law only covers recruitment to foreign regular armies not private armies.

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