Campaigners argue that it favours big corporations over workers, consumers and national sovereignty, leaving countries vulnerable to legal action from multinationals.

For international criminal justice comes at a cost: the erosion of national sovereignty.

It prizes effectiveness over democracy and national sovereignty.

And, he added, it requires 'serious infringements of national sovereignty and integrity which no democratic government could possibly accept'.

When questions of national sovereignty can be judged only by self-appointing lawyers, we have a problem.