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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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Merrymouse · 23/05/2025 09:16

"Such pass my desk All The Time."

😁

SionnachRuadh · 23/05/2025 09:51

Am now flashing back to that old Viz cartoon of Neville Chamberlain on the toilet. "I have in my hand a piece of paper..."

Can actually imagine Jolyon declaiming like that.

teawamutu · 23/05/2025 10:08

Another2Cats · 23/05/2025 09:08

A little bit off-topic, but I came across this statement today:

"I have on my desk an Opinion from a prominent QC at the Tax Bar. In it, he expresses a view on the law that is so far removed from legal reality that I do not believe he can genuinely hold the view he says he has. At best he is incompetent. But at worst, he is criminally fraudulent: he is obtaining his fee by deception. And this is not the first such Opinion I have seen. Such pass my desk All The Time."

That does sound so much like a quote about Joylon Maugham or one of the KCs that he has apparently taken advice from.

But it was actually a quote by Joylon himself talking about another QC back in the day when he was still practising tax law.

I just find it quite ironic that how he used to describe others in one context is how he appears (to me at least) these days.
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Link to article written by Joylon Maugham:

https://waitingfortax.com/2014/08/07/weak-transmission-mechanisms-and-boys-who-wont-say-no/

The sight of him gives me the ick now. The sheer self-regard just radiates from him.

lcakethereforeIam · 23/05/2025 10:10

Seems he always had a high opinion of himself.

DrudgeJedd · 23/05/2025 10:21

SionnachRuadh · 23/05/2025 09:51

Am now flashing back to that old Viz cartoon of Neville Chamberlain on the toilet. "I have in my hand a piece of paper..."

Can actually imagine Jolyon declaiming like that.

"I have in my hand a prescription for puberty blockers..."

Good Law Project suing the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - letter before action
AelitaQueenofMars · 23/05/2025 11:34

teawamutu · 21/05/2025 21:04

It's a good point, because after half a century as a female I could count the times I've heard of it happening on the fingers of one hand.

We never challenged all the obvious men but now we're challenging women with short hair?

Boolsheeet.

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It’s a curious one isn’t it? It’s suddenly a useful, however spurious, line of argument for them.

Incidentally, I’ve been subject to regular ‘misgenderings’ all my life - but never in a toilet and except in one instance by an old lady as a child, always by men. And I don’t expect to start being challenged in loos by other women anytime soon.

moto748e · 23/05/2025 11:37

SionnachRuadh · 23/05/2025 09:51

Am now flashing back to that old Viz cartoon of Neville Chamberlain on the toilet. "I have in my hand a piece of paper..."

Can actually imagine Jolyon declaiming like that.

Or Neville Chamberlaine as filtered by Harry Perkins!

(the late, great, Ray McAnally)

moto748e · 23/05/2025 12:29

I wish the BBC would show that again. That, and The History Man.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 23/05/2025 18:06

I would love to see The History Man again. So prophetic.

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