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Good Law Project suing the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - letter before action

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OhBuggerandArse · 16/05/2025 15:30

Sorry if this has already been shared - here are the links to their letter and statement. Looking forward to the Mumsnet analysis :-)

https://goodlawproject.org/were-bringing-a-legal-challenge-to-the-ehrcs-interim-update

https://goodlawproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Letter-to-the-Equality-and-Human-Rights-Commission-16-May-2025_Redacted.pdf

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TheOtherRaven · 17/05/2025 09:31

The fury of women having protections in law being so very openly voiced by this movement, the contempt for women, the belief that women should not be allowed dignity, privacy, a voice, a right to choose their own sexual preferences, their own language or anything not controlled and ruled by men, that their role is unconditional submission and silence, the threats of sexual violence so prevalent for any woman protesting this,

and two out of three daughters who identify as boys, as mentioned in that article.

I wonder why it could feel a better option to be a boy?

DrudgeJedd · 17/05/2025 09:09

MoistVonL · 16/05/2025 19:15

I was under the impression the middle one did so now as well. But I can’t find the source just at the moment.

But totally not a social contagion. Nope.

Labour Pains blog link
This blog by Richard Dunstan gives a fairly comprehensive lowdown on how and why JoMo got himself into this mess. It includes links to the interview with the elder daughter (Grin) saying her sister is also trans, Grin was also included in a Guardian article about children who have been given puberty blockers & hormones. I'll see if I can find it.
I'm not surprised he looks unhinged in that video, he's got himself in a proper Chinese finger trap. He's never publicly acknowledged his personal reasons for his crusade and is careful to never directly link the GLP to his daughter's campaign group, but as more people become aware of it he's looking even less credible. He still gets positive interaction on bluesky & insta but every trans related post on twitter is thoroughly mocked. No serious people want to be publicly associated with this grifting nonsense.

Difficult transition: Jolyon Maugham KC’s identity crisis

As noted on this blog last month, it was always going to be fun watching Jolyon Maugham KC and his Good Law Project try to re-invent themselves, following the demise on 4 July last year of the Tory…

https://labourpainsblog.com/2025/05/06/difficult-transition-jolyon-maugham-kcs-identity-crisis/

fromorbit · 17/05/2025 08:57

JM's video on X now has a glorious community note.

Readers added context
Sending a letter before action is not "starting legal proceedings". The very point of a Pre-Action Protocol LBA is to "try to settle the dispute without [legal] proceedings". The Good Law Project have previously had to apologise for misleading statements such as this.

ArabellaScott · 17/05/2025 08:19

RareGoalsVerge · 16/05/2025 20:25

This is the thing I am really needing to remind myself. It's far better that they waste their money and time on this futile tantrum rather than doing anything that might actually make a difference.

Yes, except it wastes our time and money, too.

Given the cost of living crisis, food banks, the NHS struggling, etc, quite a lot of taxpayers may be understandably pissed off at the time wasting eejits.

And if I were in the legal sphere, I'd be losing patience with someone making the profession look so absurd and pointless.

ArabellaScott · 17/05/2025 08:16

AlexandraLeaving · 16/05/2025 17:42

Sigh. Having witnessed this sort of thing from the 'inside', my heart sinks at the knowledge of how much official time and energy will be diverted to dealing with this rather than the many other things that government ought to be focusing on.

On the plus side, I note from one of his footnotes that Kew Gardens now offers single sex toilets again. Hurrah for that.

Exactly my response. It's all bullshit, everyone knows its bullshit, everyone knows it won't succeed. But everyone has to plod through the unbelievably tedious motions anyway. Thirty pages of bullshit. And taxpayers will have to cover the time, effort, and expense of carefully and laboriously explaining each point as if to children.

It's a version of 'the process is the punishment', only for this lot it also appears to have made them an enormous amount of money, just to waste everyone's time.

I have to admit I can't even be arsed to read it.

WarriorN · 17/05/2025 06:59

Nothing to see yet but JK has a LOT of popcorn in

WarriorN · 17/05/2025 06:37

TheOtherRaven · 16/05/2025 16:29

I can hear the crunch of Michael Foran, Peter Daly, Naomi Cunningham and Akua Reindorf sharpening their pens as they murmur oh ffs..

Edited

<toddles off to twitter>

Crouton19 · 17/05/2025 06:07

Is is possible to see who has donated to the crowdfunder, ie any large donations from shady organisations? This is what FWS were accused of after all.

SinnerBoy · 17/05/2025 05:25

Hoardasurass · Yesterday 22:06

I'm sure he's had advice from the likes of rmw whom as we all know (atleast those who heard his women's hour interview) is a "expert" in these matters 🤪

Did you mean egg spurt?

SinnerBoy · 17/05/2025 04:22

CarefulN0w · 16/05/2025 17:25

Good Laugh Project?

Grifters, Losers and Prats?

ArtemisiaTheArtist · 17/05/2025 02:10

TL, DR: Why do people keep being conned out of their money by this fraud?

Stop giving Jo money and hopefully he’ll go away.

ThatsNotMyTeen · 16/05/2025 23:03

Glamourreader · 16/05/2025 15:34

Wow, they really, really, really want to use the ladies, and the ladies in the ladies in order to feel like ladies

Exactly. I thought “they just wanted to pee”? Surely they can do that in the gents. What a lot of absolute nonsense. I really am losing patience rapidly with these ludicrous tantrums.

nebulae · 16/05/2025 23:01

🤣🤣🤣

Good Law Project suing the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - letter before action
dubaichocolate · 16/05/2025 22:59

I’m surprised the TRAs don’t want to be strip searched by men, wouldn’t that be part of the sissy humiliation routine? I can’t believe I’m typing that but sadly my brain knows too much about this area these days.

There was a snippet of an interview with two of the kids posted on X, that’s where it was suggested that they were both trans. They were discussing the different attitudes of eg their school between one transitioning and the other transitioning a few years later.

KnottyAuty · 16/05/2025 22:29

Lalgarh · 16/05/2025 21:33

Imma spamming this now. Hat tip @greenup who set up another thread on this. The LSE Law School dissecting the implications of the Supreme Court ruling. 2 hours.

Sarah Vine KC who specialises in vulnerable defendants cases v interesting. Also at the end they note that the Gender Recognition Act meant this ruling seemed to flow naturally from the relevant legislation. In Australia and other countries that don't have that, it would actually be far harder to distinguish for single sex service etc

Yes after hearing that today I thought it would be best if the GRA was not repealed. It is apparently what made the SC ruling on the EA possible and it will remain in itself a useful law.

proximalhumerous · 16/05/2025 22:19

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 16/05/2025 21:21

What’s with the incessant blinking?! He looks like someone on the edge of sanity.

Yes! I could tell something felt weird and disturbing about the video (other than the content!) but couldn't put my finger on what it was.

Hoardasurass · 16/05/2025 22:06

SionnachRuadh · 16/05/2025 20:13

There's a good possibility they've taken legal advice from themselves.

Which works in our favour, because Jolyon's legal expertise is mostly in the area of helping Gary Barlow minimise his tax bill, and when he says eminent KCs have told him he's got a slam dunk, they're probably just saying that to get rid of him.

I'm sure he's had advice from the likes of rmw whom as we all know (atleast those who heard his women's hour interview) is a "expert" in these matters 🤪

AelitaQueenofMars · 16/05/2025 22:01

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 16/05/2025 21:43

I'm guessing that a crowd-funded-law-practice does not have a whole lot of setup costs (a couple of computers, work from home etc.) so perhaps almost all of the donations will go on 'salaries'?

Is it a charity? Any financial declarations?

Nope, it’s a limited company. The website claims it’s a ‘non profit.’ Presumably Jolyon pays himself some kind of salary. He’s not wandering around wearing sackcloth, for sure.

GOOD LAW PROJECT LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

GOOD LAW PROJECT LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10556197

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 16/05/2025 21:57

OhBuggerandArse · 16/05/2025 15:30

Interestingly, according to Companies House, JM is no longer a director at the Good Law Project, but he is the only director of the Good Law Practice. 🤔 But they both have the same correspondence address.

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 16/05/2025 21:43

Nameychangington · 16/05/2025 21:38

No, yes, lots, yes.

IIRC he was initially crowdfunding £10k for him to look at the judgement. The judgement is available for free on the internet. I've looked at it several times myself.

I'm guessing that a crowd-funded-law-practice does not have a whole lot of setup costs (a couple of computers, work from home etc.) so perhaps almost all of the donations will go on 'salaries'?

Is it a charity? Any financial declarations?

Nameychangington · 16/05/2025 21:38

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 16/05/2025 21:18

Just out of interest - when Maugham pursues these cases, does he do it at some reduced rate or is he essentially drumming up hopeless business for himself?

How much does he charge?

Has he already paid himself a nice dollop of cash for the holidays for preparing the letter to send to the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson?

No, yes, lots, yes.

IIRC he was initially crowdfunding £10k for him to look at the judgement. The judgement is available for free on the internet. I've looked at it several times myself.

Lalgarh · 16/05/2025 21:33

Imma spamming this now. Hat tip @greenup who set up another thread on this. The LSE Law School dissecting the implications of the Supreme Court ruling. 2 hours.

Sarah Vine KC who specialises in vulnerable defendants cases v interesting. Also at the end they note that the Gender Recognition Act meant this ruling seemed to flow naturally from the relevant legislation. In Australia and other countries that don't have that, it would actually be far harder to distinguish for single sex service etc

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 16/05/2025 21:30

LittleBitofBread · 16/05/2025 18:04

Precisely this. What a lot of sound and fury. Why aren't they fundraising and campaigning for, say, awareness-raising about how gender-non-conforming men in men's spaces shouldn't be subjected to violence or ridicule? I mean, I might even support that.

Because it’s ultimately about forcing women to submit to them, that’s the kink, the fetish, the power trip. In general, they’re not going to get the reaction they want from men, it’s only women they want to dominate.

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 16/05/2025 21:30

How about Greed Flaw Project?

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 16/05/2025 21:25

NecessaryScene · 16/05/2025 20:27

when he says eminent KCs have told him he's got a slam dunk, they're probably just saying that to get rid of him.

"So he's got £500,000 of crowdfunding money, he's desperate for any advice on how to get the ECtHR to declare a bad court thingy on the UK Supreme Court, and we get to keep our names off it?"

"Yep."

"Go for it. Just for god's sake don't even hint that we'd actually represent him in court - there's a remote chance he might actually try it for real. You know my wife reads Tribunal Tweets."

Edited

Are these the same KC’s that told him FWS definitely wouldn’t win? Do you think they’re in the room with him now?! 😂