GLP are going after Sarah Philmore and are going to lose

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Get the popcorn folks. GLP is getting ready to lose again.

They are going after barrister Sarah Phillimore for referring to a man as a man. They think they are going to lawfare her into silence.

Her blog:

Here we are now: Entertain us
I have had now 7 years and counting of the various tactics used to 'silence' those who won't comply with prevailing orthodoxy. How are those tactics holding up?
https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/here-we-are-now-entertain-us?

The only thing is other TAs have already tried this on Phillimore multiple times. They went to the Bar Council their claims were dismissed. They all failed. More to the point this ‘Kate’ is the same guy complaining again who already failed. Sarah Phillimore knows the law and likes explaining it to TAs and making them lose. So she doesn't even resent the attempt.

As Sarah has stated "They pick on someone who not only enjoys this but has now a vast repository of knowledge about the law in this area."

Sarah Phillimore

Because I don’t tweet as a public body, an employer or provider of goods or services. I am not subject to the Equality Act. I tweet as a private individual and I will say again. You can’t change sex. A man cannot be a woman. I cannot be compelled to call a man a woman.

A trans identifying man such as ‘Kate’ who frequently takes to the public stage to urge violence against women and declare his intent to enter women’s spaces, is a dangerous man and one who will attract public comment.

Follow the fun on X
https://x.com/SVPhillimore

Separate legal identity.

Google says
Good Law Project is a company, specifically a non-profit company limited by guarantee (Company Registration Number 10556197) founded in 2017

So yes the company is recognised as a legal "person" 👀 /entity who needs to employ a qualified legal professional to take a case to court on its behalf (unquallified managers / owners cant act)

The legal entity has employees and has a legal responsibility for acts carried out by employees while carrying out assigned duties.

If the employee is being "batshit" while carrying out duties or acting on behalf of the company the company can be sued along side the batshitting employee.

Now acting on behalf of is wider than acting under instruction while carrying out assigned duties so if another person could be fooled into a reasonable belief that the employee is acting under instruction the company can be sued too.

If the employer says to the employee stop batshitting and/or to PS it is not us doing the batshitting and published it etc the company are making it clear any batshitting is a private life decision.

In RL GLP could have a doube bite of the cherry.
The employee in his private capacity
And
The employer as GLP
Both end up as defendents in the batshitting.

NB as a policy it is a very bad idea to employ the same legal team as your co-defendent because at some stage the TODDI (The Other Dude Did It) will be thrown in and you want to be driving the bus not lying in the road trying to work out what hit you.🤷‍♀️

This is what SP has pointed out:

The employee is attempting to use control of the company as a way to join/link the private life decisions of the employee as being the action of the company.

GLP can fund raise for the employee as a private individual who may be sued.

GLP can also fund raise for itself as a company who may be sued due to the action of its employee or by direct choice of management

Once the details are made clear there is no fraud in collecting the money.

So... your hypothesis is that the GLP is JM's personal tax dodge?? Fabulous. He's even more brilliant than the TRA's give him credit for.

The TRAs are already offering to fundraise for an appeal.

It really is a thing of beauty.

@ArabellaScott It's a nice little wheeze they pull, loads of individual fund raisers but every time a case gets knocked back for lack of standing or some other procedurally early fail, GLP get to keep any remaining funds & spaff it all on whatever they like. Presumably, in addition to data harvesting, that's the advantage sought in running their own direct donation facility. No ringfences, no refunds.

Edit: replying to AnSolas. I guess Hildegard has clarified further down that they say funds go to a general "piss up if we fancy one" fund.

Yes, but what I meant was when soliciting donations from the general public, the donations are supposed to go to specific funding pots for a specific cause, none of which (as far as I know) are called 'employee legal costs for when an employee has libelled/defamed a random person'.

@ArabellaScott As ever, the small print's the kicker.
Examine minutely the wording at the bottom of their latest trans begging bowl. Splendidly imprecise, isn't it?

"Funds raised will support our legal cases battling the attacks on trans rights which have followed the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland.
Ten per cent of the funds raised will be a contribution to the general running costs of Good Law Project. It is our policy only to raise sums that we anticipate could be spent on the work we are crowdfunding for. If there is a surplus it will go towards our work fighting to stop hate, and bring hope."

Who the fuck is Hope? Bring her where?!

🤣🤣🤣

ptd was complaining on Reddit that Jolyon had donated funds from the “Trans Litigation Fund” to (shock horror) “non-trans” causes.

it Amazes me how many people make money off gender. It is a gold mine.

I have a sneaking liking for ptd, who seems to be the one sane man in that place, but I wonder if he's heard the story of the SNP supporters who thought their donations were going to fight for independence.

It was a gold mine. I suspect the seams are running out.

His attempt to raise funds based on a dishonest interpretation of the high court judgement is certainly reminiscent of the kind of dodgy tax avoidance vehicles that Dan Neidle tries to expose.

Indeed. That doesn't counteract the idea that JM is actually a true believer either.

No doubt when he was helping rich people/companies avoid tax he thought he was helping the world. He deserved lots of money for doing it too.

Some of the best scam artists actually convince themselves the product/service they are selling is useful. That is why they deserve to be rewarded very highly for bringing it to people. Posh brits are amongst the best people in the world at doing this.

JM is not stupid, he is the kind of dumb that only articulate, clever people can manage where you rearrange reality so you can ignore it.

Look at the eloquent way he denies they actually lost, which he does every time GLP loses which is a lot.

I fear the road is running out though. The latest crowdfunder is not doing well. £300k costs is a solid number.

Then there is Sarah's case to deal with.

Those of us who want biology to accepted again owe him a debt. He saved countless sensible women and men a bunch of tenners to support cases by speed running the worst possible challenges to the judgment. It would have taken years of fighting to achieve the win that JM has gifted us. Maybe the gender people will start hiring better lawyers if he goes.

Maybe the gender people will start hiring better lawyers if he goes.

Who could only be:

A. True believers who are better lawyers. Are there any such beings?

B. Better lawyers who are not true believers but who will mouth the right phrases sufficiently well to satisfy the gender people whilst cynically taking their money. They'd have to not get tripped up on their fake support for genderism, mind.

The latest accounts up to end Jan 2025 are here

ETA hyperlink not working - sorry here’s the full thing:

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For those not that interested to look here are some extracts

Looks like an excellent company and subsidiary to generate valuable tax losses.

Also £300k on rent for 35 employees. I wonder who the landlord is? And where the office is?

That's some healthy income right there and a decent enough operating margin of ~20%.

Too bad the 'administrative expenses' puts them into a healthy loss meaning no corporation tax due at all. Must have got a hot tax lawyer involved there...

will go towards our work fighting to stop hate

I think Jolly's definition of hate includes acts of hate against him, and he defines suing him as one of those acts of hate. Tenuous link but one that pays his bills.

I can't for the life of me figure out why GLP would have 35 employees.

I remember, some years ago, hearing that Stonewall had 130 employees, and asking, what do they all do? And Stonewall is a big organisation, and was bigger then.

Good question about the address.

The registered / correspondence address is an accountant's office, of course.

AI says the main office is in central London, presumably from scraping job adverts.

There’s a wider pattern in relation to this.

I know (from a distance) quite a few people who have made a living over the past 5 years from public speaking and consultancy - using their lived experience to educate the ignorant. They are now unable to make a living as the work has dried up. Those who I know are pretty much unemployable due to undiagnosed personality disorders/ traits that would lead them to fail probation periods even if they managed to be selected after interview.

Widespread acceptance /tolerance of critical theory has passed and with it has come legitimate questions/ challenge. The ‘public speakers’ I know either seek reassurance before ‘speaking’ that there will be no tolerance of challenge or they have behaved appallingly at one of their engagements in response to challenge. Both scenarios make them unappealing to the HR boss who previously hired them.

GLP has used 167 -169 Great Portland St 5th Floor, but this might be a holding address as hundreds of companies are registered there, and it provides a lot of rooms for hire / serviced offices / answering services etc.

It's normal to have a registered office that isn't your place of business.

It's less normal to put a registered office address in your letter head.