This intervention is a good thing for the FWS case.
1 - GLP virtually always lose. Having the fox batterer against you is a bonus not a disadvantage. He has inappropriate legal skills, remember Joly Kimono is a TAX lawyer, trying to do complex equalities and constitutional law. Moreover he is more interested in making money, gaining publicity, than winning.
Trina on twitter pointed out this:
Crowdfunder is for £30k. Probably about 2x as much as needed for legal costs for an intervention. Why are they fundraising for something they haven't even been granted permission for? If they are turned down where does the excess money go? Surprisingly little detail on the page..
2 It is likely that GLPs badly designed intervention will give a great example to the supreme court of how batty TRAs are. They are at their most successful when they are sneaky. This attempt may not even be heard, but trying to do it, the publicity in papers like the Times makes the pro-woman side stronger because it gives a concrete example of the sexism going on. Because FWS employ competent lawyers rather than random grifters it may be they could even use aspects of the attempt to intervene during the case itself to show the threat to women's spaces.
3 GLP's reputation is mud amongst the senior legal profession because their grifting lawfare, which is not only time wasting, but as mentioned earlier is constantly incompetent. Lawyers admire winners, those who win cases, no matter what the cause they fight for. Again this helps the women side because it undermines the idea of TRAs as being victims.
4 It diverts money that might be spent on effective TRA campaigning into buying JM new kimonos.
5 It peaks people and gives FWS more publicity so raises more money for our side. The gardening plot has gone up another 9000 in the last few days over 150,000 now. Newsflash making women more and more angry is NOT a winning tactic. The longer the mumsnet thread, the more GC twitter rants the more powerful the pro-woman side becomes.