Mere minutes before Jolyon told the Jason Arday vigil in central London that “today is a day for white people to listen and not to speak” he was chatting away brazenly during singer-songwriter Beverly Knight’s speech. Was he boasting about his threats to the Guardian?
So far the Good Law Project and its fans have used Arday’s death to call for tight regulation of the press. Shameless…
Jolyon is having a tough week. After apologising for offending trans activists after the Good Law Project launched a new ad campaign, the serial loser deactivated his Bluesky account. He deleted his X account some months ago…
Barrister Sarah Phillimore, who is suing him, points out that the deletion comes shortly before Jolyon presents his defence in her libel claim against him.
He also Blueskied in support of Bash Back, the militant trans group which has targeted Wes Streeting among others. It says it uses “rarely legal” methods. Jolyon had posted:
“The non-violent direct action promoted by Bash Back is the inevitable, and I would say legitimate, response to a society whose institutions, politics and media systematically dehumanise trans people. No pasarán.”
Is there anything Jolyon is capable of not losing?
The Good Law Project has apologised and cancelled a pro-Trans Rights ad campaign after its imagery offended Trans Rights campaigners. Oh dear…
A billboard campaign featuring monstrous animals like sharks and dinosaurs with the text “Of course I support trans – I’m not a monster” has rubbed people up the wrong way. From Jolyon Maugham today:
“We want to apologize for how the ‘Monster’ campaign has been received by the trans community. We’ve heard you – and we’ve instructed our media partners to take the campaign down.
The ‘Monster’ campaign was commissioned from the preeminent public artist Martin Firrell, whose work evidences a long record of support for the LGBT+ community, to speak specifically to cis people about what it means to oppose trans people, rights, spaces and joy. The campaign tested very positively with cis allies and the team that worked on it included a number of trans people. The campaign was funded by a single donation and in its very brief existence has brought in at least one four figure donation.
We think it’s important that we speak both to the cis people, who we need to persuade, and the trans community, for whom ultimately we do this work. Later this month a project we funded for the trans community, the 86-metre Trans Unity Quilt, with two trans co-artistic directors, will be carried along the route of London Trans+ Pride and then at further events outside London.
All of this is true – but none of it matters if it damages the trust we enjoy with the trans community and it has. So it will be taken down today – and I repeat my apology, on Good Law Project’s behalf, to those the campaign has upset. We remain, as ever, extraordinarily grateful to the many members of the trans community who continue to support our work for the community.”
Chalk that up as another loss…
Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project has issued an update:
“We can confirm that the barrister Sarah Phillimore has issued in the High Court a claim for defamation against Jolyon Maugham KC.
The claim relates to an article Good Law Project published in August 2025 which identified an online onslaught led by Sarah Phillimore, a barrister and anti-trans activist, which led to an attempt by Kate* to take her own life. The article explained that Good Law Project had made a regulatory complaint to the Bar Standards Board (BSB), Ms Phillimore’s regulator…
Before publishing its article, Good Law Project took advice from Leading Counsel on whether an allegation of harassment could properly be made. This is the only complaint it has ever made to the BSB. It has direct documentary evidence that Kate sought professional help for distress immediately after Sarah Phillimore began posting about her and GP notes detailed her attempted suicide several weeks later.
Unsurprisingly, Jolyon Maugham will vigorously defend Ms Phillimore’s claim. No further comment will be made at this time.
Ms Phillimore is represented by Elliot Hammer of Branch Austin McCormick (who is also acting for Sophie Corcoran in her action against 10,000 Interns). Mr Maugham will be represented by Good Law Project and Jonathan Price KC.”
A Doughty Street Chambers barrister alongside the might of the Good Law Project. What could go wrong…
Jolyon Maugham’s serially incompetent Good Law Project is using the North Belfast attack and subsequent protests to ask for donations to “stop Farage.” Grifters gonna grift…
An email sent after lunch to everyone captured by GLP’s data collection says: “The far right are following the playbook they used in Southampton and Southport: take an isolated tragedy, talk about it in the language of race, divide us against each other and push their hate.”
“According to the ONS, there were more than 20,000 knife assaults in the UK in 2024/2025. It’s no accident that the far right have chosen this one…
Now more than ever, we need to stand together against hate, and division, and take action.”
There follow two dubious “stop Farage” buttons that go to GLP’s donations page. This is one of their “reactive fundraising” campaigns…
Jolyon’s outfit says it’s “already knee-deep in the fight against Reform, we’re taking them to court and are campaigning against them. Whether it’s their failure to respect data rights, or exploiting women’s safety to attack migrants, we’re fighting to stop their hateful agenda.” Reform did condemn the violent protests last night…
The last update to Jolyon’s ‘campaign‘ against Reform refers to court proceedings by the GLP against it way back in February over the party’s alleged failure to respond to Subject Access Requests quickly enough. There is no judgement on that one yet. What’s known as a bottom-of-the-barrel legal attack…
A “petition” by Good Law Project (data collection form) about “fighting back” against Reform has only 3,303 signatures so far. Not much faith in Jolyon’s abilities?
Jolyon is himself facing legal proceedings – gender-critical barrister Sarah Phillimore has filed a £50,000 claim defamation claim against him after he accused her of harassing a trans person. Lawfare has got two edges…
Jolyon Maugham has quietly shuffled the ownership of his crowd-funded litigation-losing vehicle the Good Law Project into a Jersey purpose trust. Jersey…
Good Law Project insists it will remain UK resident for tax purposes and there will be no change to how its income is taxed. Nothing to see here…
But what is actually going on? The stated reason for the offshore move is to replicate the characteristics of charity status without being bound by the “moving political guardrails policed by the Charity Commission.“ Maugham wants all the credibility of being a charity, with none of the oversight. The Charity Commission getting in the way of your political activism? Pop offshore and set up a purpose trust instead…
And who controls this Jersey vehicle? In the short term, the only trustee will be a company owned by Jolyon himself, and he will remain the “person with significant control.“ So after all the fanfare about handing over ownership, Jolyon is still, in every meaningful sense, in charge…
The next time Maugham appears on the Today programme to demand that some government contractor be hauled over the coals for its corporate structure, perhaps the interviewer could ask him a simple question. Why Jersey, Jolyon?
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”