Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Stewart Report
3: Security Service Mandate
4: Surveillance Targets
5: Surveillance Methods
6: Democracy under Surveillance
7: Rule of Law under Surveillance
8: The Guilty Secret
9: Surveillance and Purge
10: Vetting and the Secret Blacklist
11: Surveillance and the Industrial Purge
12: Purging the Trade Unions
13: The Ubiquitous Lord Radcliffe
14: Lord Denning Takes Over
15: Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography

About the Author

Keith Ewing is professor of public law at King's College London. He is co-editor of the Oxford Labour Law series and author of numerous books and articles, including Bonfire of the Liberties (OUP 2010) and The Struggle for Civil Liberties (OUP 2001). Joan Mahoney now teaches at the University of Southampton, having taught for many years in the United States where she was Dean of Wayne State University Law School. Andrew Moretta is a postgraduate
research student at the University of Liverpool. He received his LLM from King's College London in 2012.

Reviews

Ewing, Mahoney and Moretta have done a great service to the discipline in demonstrating what can be achieved in the domain of national security law notwithstanding the various obstacles which exist on standard doctrinal and socio-legal research in that field.
*Paul F Scott, University of Glasgow, The Edinburgh Law Review*

This book examines the constitutional position of MI5 and how far its practice conforms to its constitutional role. It is a work of immense value for anyone wishing to comprehend the historical role of the secret services and their impact on British life and politics over more than a century. This is an invaluable work of legal history and gives us an understanding of the past, helping us to assess problems of the present and the continued abuse of surveillance powers by the state.
*John Green, Theory and Struggle*

Though much of MI5's post-war history remains shrouded in secrecy, the authors have performed a forensic analysis of the available evidence. They reach disturbing conclusions about the overreach of Britain's secret state.
*Richard Toye, Aspects of History*

It is a superbly structured work of scholarship which examines a range of topics in depth and rounds off each chapter (and the book itself) with a definitive conclusion.
*Kevan Nelson, Morning Star*