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... established the fact that new statutes would prevail over statutes previously enacted. According to jurist and Professor Albert Venn Dicey Parliamentary Sovereignty is:- ' The very keystone of our constitution ' 18th Century English Jurist Sir William Blackstone said :- 'What Parliament doth, no authority on earth can undo.' Parliamentary Sovereignty can be broken up into three important elements: firstly Parliament can make or unmake any law; secondly Parliament cannot bind its successors and lastly Courts cannot question an act of Parliament. Firstly in the light of the European Communities Act 1972 Parliament can still only do this if the legislation is not an EU regulation or directive and is only domestic legislation. Parliament cannot for instance repeal an Act that an EU directive had ordered the government to make as they did in the case of Commission of the EC v United Kingdom (1979) (Re Taco graphs) .Secondly the fact that Parliament ...