Opinion of Mr Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 10 January 1991

1 Original language: English.

2 In preparing this section of my Opinion, I have derived particular assistance from the written observations submitted in these proceedings and from the following works: Simmonds, The British Islands and the Community; II —The Isle of Man' (1970) 7 CMLRev 454; the Report of the Royal Commission on the Constitution (1973), Cmnd. 5460, Vol. I; Horner, The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands — A Study of their Status under Constitutional, International and European Law, EUI Working Paper No 98 (1984); Plender, The Protocol, the Bailiwicks and the Jersey Cow' in Plender (ed.), Legal History and Comparative Law (1990), p. 193. See also the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights dated 25 April 1978 in Tyrer v United Kingdom, Series A, No 26.