Jolyon’s Bluesky followers have been treated to a short video of the failed lawyer dancing backstage at a trans festival in London. This is what you’ve lost over on Musk’s X…
Jolyon is seen enthusiastically dancing at the Trans Mission festival in Wembley with American singer Beth Ditto. Zack Polanski was at the same event and gave a speech in which he said “trans rights are human rights” and asked “are you ready for hope to be normal again?” Such a shame to have missed it…
More than 30 barristers and academics have signed a public letter to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson accusing Jolyon’s Good Law Project (GLP) of making “egregiously false” claims about their High Court defeat on single-sex spaces. In a blistering attack, Jolyon’s learned friends say the GLP is repeatedly “selling hope” to its gullible supporters over trans rights, aggressively fundraising for court fights it inevitably loses. Don’t say Guido didn’t warn you…
The letter makes specific reference to Jolyon’s defeat in the High Court last week, which the GLP subsequently misrepresented by claiming “the High Court makes clear that service providers are not obliged to exclude trans people from gendered spaces and services”. The lawyers shot this down in no uncertain terms…
“Nowhere in his judgment did Swift J conclude that ‘service providers are not obliged to exclude trans people from gendered spaces and services’. The phrase ‘gendered spaces’ is absent from the judgment and has no legal meaning… We are aware of no other organisation that has ever published such egregiously false material about the judgment in a case that it has lost.”
Brutal. Guido has said for years that Jolyon tries to use the courts as a political vehicle. If he wants to stand for Parliament, he should. He’s familiar with how it feels to lose by now anyway. Even some of his former supporters have had enough: “Maugham always pretends he’s had some sort of win even when he has unambiguously and comprehensively lost. He did the same with his Brexit cases. I’m fed up of this turd polisher claiming he does so much for us.” From learned friend to ‘turd polisher’ – life comes at you fast…
The Good Law Project’s challenge to the EHRC’s interim trans guidance has been dismissed in the High Court today. Another notch on Jolyon’s belt…
Maugham described the ruling as a “pretty grim decision.” The case has been dismissed thanks to the fact that the interim guidance doesn’t exist any more, and that the GLP isn’t a valid claimant anyway, among other things. Oh dear….
UPDATE: Jolyon is already handing out the begging bowl for his appeal of the ruling.
Jolyon’s (requiescat in pace) Good Law Project has launched a campaign against group Sex Matters which is running a standard letter-writing effort aimed at MPs in the Council of Europe. Jolyon’s outfit is aghast that Sex Matters are “infiltrating the vote” and “bullying them to uphold transphobic ideas and asking them to vote against a ban”…
The GLP is therefore launching a counter-letter campaign: “Email the MPs and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats, they can stand up for what’s right.” So upset are they that they’ve illustrated their big campaign with a photo of the European Commission not the Council of Europe. If even the Euro-crazies can’t get it right…
New financial declarations from top woke charities Stonewall and Mermaids show massive declines in income. Spare a thought for Jolyon Maugham…
Mermaids incurred losses of £285,496 with final reserves of minus £33,056, down from £226,224 last year. The charity reports reduced activity and that it has undergone “a full restructure to reduce costs.” Shedding jobs…
Stonewall is in an equally bad position. Its income fell from £6.9 million last year to £4.7 million. Higher spending of £5.6 million have produced a deficit of £906,000. Their cash reserves are down to £92,000 from £1 million…
The organisations are also supported by piecemeal grants from taxpayer-funded sources in their activities. At a university talk late last year trans campaigner Jolyon Maugham said the two charities were “essentially killed” by the Charity Commission after having to fight legal cases. The same strategy Jolyon is using unsuccessfully against the Institute of Economic Affairs…
It was actually Maugham’s Good Law Project which crowdfunded and supported Mermaids in its massively unsuccessful litigation against fellow charity the LGBA to have its status revoked. That’s what kicked off the downward spiral…
In other Jolyon news the campaigner told students he was setting up Good Law Project associations in universities in the New Year to establish them as “centres of resistance.” He’ll find a way to lose at that, too…
Jolyon has lost again. It’s practically daily now…
The Good Law Project announced yesterday:
“Good Law Project has taken on leading civil society organisations The Bureau for Investigative Journalism and Spotlight on Corruption as clients, as they challenge a decision by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to hear the “blackmail” case against Christopher Hutchings in private…Good Law Project’s clients will make submissions before the SDT tomorrow to seek to overturn their decision…When solicitors are accused of bad behaviour – particularly behaviour which seeks to silence journalism on important issues – the public must be able to see justice being done.”
The case regards an alleged threat made in a phone call between two solicitors. It is being heard in private to protect the contents of correspondence regarding solicitors’ clients. Jolyon’s application for the case to be heard was summarily dismissed today. The Law Society Gazette reports:
“SDT panel chair Lisa Boyce said: ‘This application is late, there is no reason given for the application being made in between month of the conclusion of the hearing in October and the letter of 17 November.’ Noting that the substantive hearing was nearly finished, Boyce said: ‘We are only hearing closing submissions. It would be contrary to our overriding objective to hear the application at this stage. The application to be heard is refused. We will move to private session.’”
Chin up Jolyon, it’s only November. A few more losses to fit in before Christmas…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”