[Silhouette]

It's understandable that you feel that by submitting the UK to an unknown even higher court you take a risk, but a lot of people on the other hand feel that it's going to be a boon to restrict the actions (and especially future actions) of their State.

The European Commission conducted possibly the largest public consultation in history and found almost unanimous opposition either to ISDS or to TTIP in its entirety, except among some organisations representing businesses, and even there the response was mixed. So who are the "alot of people" you're talking about here? They don't appear to be ordinary EU citizens, nor lawyers, trade unions, academics...

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/january/tradoc_15...

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2015/jan/13/new-levels-...

[pas]

It might have been the largest consultation, though I haven't heard of it.

There are millions of people in the EU currently quite grateful for the fact that their country is dependent on the EU, so their government can't dismantle their democracy at light-speed. Look at the situation with the populist right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary.