International Law Flashcards
What is the name of the body that has recently received media attention becuase of a case brought by the Republic of South Africa against Isreal because of operations in the Gaza strip?
International Court of Justice.
What are methods of ensuring compliance with the ICJ?
- Arbitration
- Monitoring and sipute system
- Sanctions
- Political consequences
What is the term to describe the process in which international treaties take immediate effect domestically.
Monism.
What is the term to describe when international treaties only take legal effect if incorperated by a domestic piece of legislation?
Dualist.
Is the UK Duelist or Monist?
Duelist.
What Act designates the UK as duelist in its approach to international legislation,.
Conditional Reform and Governance Act 2010 s. 20
What Act incorperated aspects of the ECHR into domestic law.
The Human Rights Act 1998
Where is the European Court of Human Rights located?
Strausbourg.
How many parties are there to the Council of Europe.
46.
Which has supremacy:
1. UK Domestic Law
2. The ECHR
UK Domestic Law.
What is the process which highlights that a piece of UK legislation is not inline with the ECHR
Declaration of Incompatibility.
What Act entered the UK into the EU.
European Communities Act 1972.
What act withdrew the UK from the EU?
European (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
What year did the UK leave the EU?
2020.
What is the objective of the EU?
Achieving an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe.
