In January Guido reported on Jolyon Maugham’s bizarre campaign backing a Judicial Review against the Charity Commission, which had refused to retract the conclusions of its report into the (now defunct) disgraced charity Kids Company. The judgment is out and it’s bad news for Jolyon as the High Court “dismisses” his challenge on all but two minor points…
Those two points relate to:
The Charity Commission has put out a punchy statement this afternoon which confirms it is “clear that the overall findings of our report were not ‘irrational.’” It said the “High Court judgment has upheld our finding of mismanagement of the charity’s finances and has confirmed that it was based on “ample evidence.'” It adds “firmly rejected allegations we predetermined the outcome of the inquiry, stating the threshold for this was ‘not met in this case by a wide margin.’“ That won’t stop the fox-beater…
Despite the action being dismissed on all but these two points, Jolyon is still claiming his Good Law Project has “won” its case against the Charity Commission. Things work differently on Planet Jolyon…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”