Jolyon Maugham has been having quite the weekend – mainly consisting of a meltdown over Wes Streeting’s decision to continue the ban on puberty blockers being given to children. He issued advice to every trans family: Evacuate the UK now…
The fox-beater has been barraging Wes Streeting with tens of “questions” including such killer takedowns as: Why are puberty blockers still allowed to be used in clinical trials but not outside of them? To be fair to Jolyon, he isn’t a medical expert…
Last night Jolyon threw off the blinders of privilege and declared himself in possession of the “skeleton key” to “a whole new moral universe” thanks to his trans work:
I am a wealthy, white, cis, straight man, with the cultural privilege of a KC. But working with the trans community has taught me how my status distorts my understanding of what power does and for whom. For me, the work has been a skeleton key to a whole new moral universe. https://t.co/jZiXcDPUUB
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) July 14, 2024
Anyone concerned with ethics will be breathing a sigh of relief. Questions on morality itself? Just ask Jolyon…
Some dark corners of the sanctimonious left’s presence on Twitter have been frantically trying to come to terms with the fact that Reform did so well at the election. Their chosen conspiracy? That Reform’s “paper candidates” in unwinnable seats aren’t real people at all. A theory based on the fact that one candidate, an antique dealer called Mark Matlock, had a photo that looked a little bit edited…
And their chosen champion is none other than the fox-beater himself, Jolyon Maugham. The anti-government crusader-turned-government-enthusiast (as of 4th July) bravely said on Twitter: “If you’re an MP who lost by fewer votes than a Reform candidate who didn’t exist you’re gonna be speaking to your lawyers.” Jolyon then went round pointing out Reform candidates who didn’t speak to the press or turn up to the counts (normal if you are a paper candidate – hence the name). He was even assisted by defence minister Maria Eagle…
The Guardian jumped on the bandwagon last night and even spoke to Matlock, who “insisted that he did exist“. Some saner hacks in that newsroom must have been seriously biting their tongues as this one got written up…
GB News went so far as to get Matlock on air last night to chat to him about his existence. Never fear, though – Jolyon is still going on about it this morning…
Jolyon Maugham often uses the fact that he is a KC to defend his losing arguments on X. Just two weeks ago, he used his title to reject the view he was “extremely misleading“. ‘I am a KC’, don’t you know…
Though now he’s changed his X bio to “Used to be a King’s Counsel”. Despite the fact on the Good Law Projects’ page, he still boasts the title of “Jo Maugham KC”, it looks like his practising certification expired at the end of last month. He no longer pops up on the Bar Standards Board website either. Co-conspirators can feel free to get in touch with any insight…
Jolyon has lost again. After government lawyers skewered the Good Law Project for their “misinformation” campaign against Voter ID law, Jolyon tried to challenge the law through judicial review. His attempt has been firmly rebuked by the High Court…
Justice Beverley Lang has sided with government lawyers in stating that Jolyon’s claim, for which he collected £60,000 from his hapless fans, is “unarguable“:
“The new voter ID requirements were introduced by the Elections Act 2022. There are 22 accepted forms of voter ID. They include voter authority certificates (“VAC”) which are a free form of photo ID intended primarily for electors who do not have access to other types of voter ID.“
Jolyon’s claimant, a “trans woman with disabilities, who has no photographic identification”, is not “personally or directly affected” by the government’s refusal to expand the list of acceptable ID because she can get a free VAC. The Good Law Project now has to pay the government another £6,296.35. On top of the £539,766 that Jolyon’s outfit has already supplied the government since 2017, this is salt in the wound…
For a man who’s a repeat loser, Jolyon Maugham never seems to get used to it. Still sore from losing the case against the Institute of Economic Affairs, The Good Law Project has now issued a formal complaint against the Charity Commission over the “handling of the radical rightwing think-tank.” Christopher Snowdon of the IEA came out swinging…
It’s quite simple, Jolyon. The Commission doesn’t need to carry out a new investigation every time someone makes the same baseless complaint about the IEA. It has heard it all before and rejected it.
— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) May 16, 2024
The fox-beater came back with an empty accusation – that Snowdon was a “repeat offender“. To which Snowdon egged him on…
What offence have I repeatedly committed? Careful now.
— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) May 17, 2024
True to form, Jolyon couldn’t come up with any actual evidence against Snowdon. Meanwhile, The (Not Very) Good Law Project have filed a complaint to the Charity Commission against GambleAware for allegedly “promoting” gambling. As Snowdon noted, this looks like “a dash for cash from anti-gambling groups trying to knock out a competitor.” Follow the money…
Jolyon Maugham took time out of his busy schedule losing cases today to speak about “social justice” at the Open University’s Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Guido picked up on some of Jolyon’s definitely-not-personal analysis of the legal system:
“The way our system allocates costs means that if you litigate and you lose you will generally pay the winner’s costs – so even if you have lawyers acting for free you can often not fight because if you lose you face enormous financial penalty, even bankruptcy. This critical feature of the law, the adverse cost regime, is a profound shortcoming in a thing whose main purpose is to be a safeguard.“
Jolyon is speaking from experience: the Good Law Project did not win a single case in 2023. Not that he bore the costs personally – he collected £623,895 from his hapless fans that year. Meanwhile, the government has cashed in £539,766 in legal costs from the Good Law Project since 2017 and given up only £63,738. And the gravy train keeps going: the Good Law Project is now hoovering up thousands in donations for campaigns that have already been lost…
Bizarrely the fox-beater then goes on to seemingly blame the long-standing principle of costs following the event on… a bland committee of lawyers put together to supervise a 1997 law that simplified legal rules:
“[It] is crafted by a committee, The Civil Procedure Rule Committee, who we looked at a couple of days ago and we believe to be entirely white and overwhelmingly Oxbridge-educated.“
Typical fare for a woke Durham graduate…
