Using examples relevant to Trading Standards assess the extent that the doctrine of sovereignty of Parliament has been affected by the UK's membership of the EU
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Chris Davies, Law Using examples relevant to Trading Standards assess the extent that the doctrine of sovereignty of Parliament has been affected by the UK's membership of the EU The first thing we need to look at when answering this topic is going to be to find the meaning of Parliamentary sovereignty, how it came about and why it is important to us. The meaning of Parliamentary sovereignty is that ''Parliament is the highest source of law in the country: it can make whatever law it wants and the courts must apply that law.''1 From this we can say that this means any Act of Parliament, statutes etc. that are passed by Parliament affect the whole country and no-one has the right to question the law that has been passed, including all judges who have to accept the law but are able to interpret it in the way they assume Parliament meant...


