Competition lawyers and other prominent Euro-sceptics were triumphantly wrapping themselves in Union Jacks last week as the eagerly-awaited House of Lords decision of Inntrepreneur Pub Companies and Courage Breweries v Crehan sped over newswires.
The Lords found in favour of the pub groups, handing UK courts more leeway to ignore Brussels diktats on the circumference of pomegranates and whether Stilton can really be called Stilton unless it has been hand-reared from birth by someone called Cletus in the right four-metre square area of Derbyshire.
