I did cut something from my #21 with the intent to paste it should the point you make be made, David. Alas, the pasting of the link below has lost it. It was only to say that; a court does not make law, a court only answers the question it is asked, and that a court guards it's own jurisdiction by safeguarding the jurisdiction of other courts.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/news/julian-assange-v-swedish-prosecution-authority.html/
As the text under the link above (which deals with the appeal against the previous judgement) makes clear, if only the court had been asked a different question it may have given a different answer.