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CHP5 - International Law - Sovereignty/Independence (The council of…
CHP5 - International Law - Sovereignty/Independence
Establishment of sovereignty/Independence
The Irish Free State - same status as the dominions and same relationship with the crown
Neither the 1921 Treaty or the 1922 Constitution dealt with International Realtions
Anglo-Irish Treaty - article of agreement for a treaty between UK and IRL
Loads of limitations e.x the monarch was the agency in formal international acts
1921 treaty let uk use our harbours
Before WW1 Candana/South Africa wanted independence
Covenant of the League of Nations - Dominions were able to be separate members
Irish Free State was a subject to the commonwealth law where intra-commonwealth relations were concerned
The League of Nation
1924 - IRL sought and Secured registration of the anglo irish treaty from the league
1926 - imperial conference
The Treaty wasn't under commonwealth law but now public international law
Free state in 1930
Diplomatic Realtions/Balfour Declaration
Centralised Empire Foreign Policy
remove some anachronistic formal obstacles to the exercise of their sovereginty
Commonwealth/international laws are derived from custom supplement by agreement
Balfour Declaration - indicating all self- governing units in the empire were atomomus, equal in status
Including conduct of foreign relations,treaty making practices and procedures
IRL was the 1st dominion to send a bilateral dipolmat to the US
Uk didn't have IRL representatives until 1939
The Committee on the operation of dominion legislation
Report was accepted and implementation of equal status in legislation
Statute of westminster 1931 which gave the dominions full internal sovereignty
undertook consultations on the implementation of the status of equality between the dominions
Dominions in international relations and this in itself was an essential element in s=establishing the status in IR law
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Cosgrave gave his word that he would not use the statute to amend the 1921 treaty or the 1922 constitution
Provisions of the A-I treaty were made unilaterally
The External act, A- I Agreements, WW2
Economic War - 1930s
The new IRL constitution renamed the state with Eire
King was was only use for foreign relation now
it created the office of the president as head of state
state was subject of international law
External act - removal of the king,abolition of the office of governor General
Head of state largely act in response to it own ongoing experience
The council of Europe/United Nation
1940s - convention of human rights - IRL had an active role in drafting the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms in 1950
Lawless vs Ireland case
Ireland vs U.K case
IRL has also ratified other important human rights treaties concluded under the auspices of the council of europe
IRL joined UN in a package deal
Vienna Conventions, Consular Relations and the Law of treaties
Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Cluster Munitions Convention - 2008
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sea matter in the UN
Statute of the internal court of justice
EU - treaties - Nice in 2001 and Lisbon in 2008 - 2 referendums