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"After all, we don't want to give those unpatriotic pro-European judges/saboteurs the opportunity of actually rendering justice, instead of supporting our magnificent Brexit project."

Does it though? The CJEU is also an instrument for the EU to acquire more matters for its sole control. If the Courts here make a ruling that looks odd, Parliament can change the law - c.f. UCTA or even the Divorce Act. No such ability with the CJEU.

Also, the CJEU has come up with some barmy decisions in its time. Pensions law is still reeling from decisions made in 1990 by judges who hadn't a Scooby what a trust was. Then you have the whole farrago over jurisdiction where parties issue proceedings in Italy because under the CJEU rulings you have to wait for the Italian courts to decline it. By which time the world will have come to an end.

I frankly trust our judges more than any overseas. I've lost count the number of times in international cases I've been told that we're going to lose because the local judge will favour the local party. I think the worst I ever had for that was when an English law, English jurisdiction contract in English for performance in England on behalf of an English party was trialled in Spain because the Spanish court ruled Spain was the appropriate jurisdiction.