100 Quotes by Dominic Grieve

Once E.U. law ceases to be supreme it is unclear how this vast body of law, which will then be incorporated into our own domestic law, will be interpreted by our own courts.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

The Government has correctly recognised that this E.U. law cannot all be changed into domestic law at once.

Of course we should harness IT to strengthen public protection and public service delivery.

Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be properly restricted.

The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.

We then need to consider carefully how the E.U. law that is going to be imported into our own law will operate. Its processes and interpretation have always been different from our own domestic law.

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

Whatever long-term advantages are claimed for Brexit it is overwhelmingly clear that in the short to medium term it carries risks to our economy and security.