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/