I'm not sue if your response was about my post, Musket. I'm talking about TTIP: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Transatlantic. Important though they are, poor independent chemist shops are at a completely different level. This agreement is to try to reach common regulations on both sides of the Atlantic for various aspects of trade. And the dispute resolution mechanism, if agreed, would allow BigOil, for example, to sue the UK if our government voted for different regulations on fracking. [Substitute whatever cause of concern you may have.]   My question is whether, as a matter of principle, we should ever allow a company to sue a government for decisions it has reached democratically, and the two candidates who have replied so far say (a) the agreement on the table would allow this and (b) they are against it.


Judicial review doesn't really come into it. All that can decide is whether an action is lawful or not, and would only apply after the law which I am objecting to had been passed.