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?
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.
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”