The Good Law Project is up to its old losing tricks again. To kick off their campaign against voter ID, Jolyon’s crew have sent a pre-action letter to the government on behalf of a “trans woman with disabilities, who has no photographic identification” and who believes that voter ID requirements “undermine” “the ability to vote in a free and fair election“. Jolyon might not have much joy trying to challenge a statute by judicial review…

The Government Legal Department’s letter in response is pretty amusing. It sets out that the Good Law Project says it “will bring litigation” against the government and has raised nearly £60,000 from crowdfunders to do so despite sending a pre-action letter “in hopes of avoiding the need for litigation“. Avoiding litigation is the whole point of pre-action letters…

Government lawyers then point out that there is no mention in the “particularly detailed pre-action letter” of the free-to-claim voter authority certificate (VAC) that counts as ID for any election. On top of that they note there also isn’t any reference to the VAC anywhere on the Good Law Project’s website, all while “misinformation, such as that the forms of identification are ‘targeted at the older generation’ serves to undermine the important work that is ongoing“. They go on to attach the simple-to-fill out application form for it. Lawyers who dub Jolyon’s outfit the “Good Laugh Project” are finding his latest antics highly entertaining…