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

If, purely hypothetically, I had donated to a legal crowdfunder to support a cause close to my gender-identified heart. And later found that the money had mainly been diverted via some byzantine tax-efficient procedures, into a retired tax-lawyer's back bin... and had produced less forward progress than an asthmatic ant with heavy shopping (C) Captain Blackadder

Well I'd be quite curious and then furious about that.

GLP's current registered and correspondence address is 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 0EG - the office of Lee, Dicketts & Co, Accountants.

Above per Companies House and its website.

From a job advert posted in June 2025, under the heading Location, " Hybrid working. The postholder will be expected to attend our office in central London regularly – minimum of 2/3 days per week".

The GLP’s registered address is the Sevenoaks one in the footer of that letter.

The Great Portland St address hosts hundreds of companies, lots of meeting rooms for hire, serviced office space, answering services etc.

So have they got another top seckrit and very expensive central London address?

Bcs the Portland St one seems more for kind of hot desking? Or have I misunderstood.

Wouldn’t it be funny if they did and it turned out it was Tufton Street.

Probably just an address you can use as your Registered Company Address as a service. At a minimum they forward on your company mail to where you (or your Company Secretary) actually live/work.

I've used things like that when I have run a Ltd Company as a self-employed IT contractor.

The registered / correspondence address is in Seal, Sevenoaks.

The job adverts specify presence in central London 2/3 days a week.

sorry yes somehow I didn't notice that. Then I think @ArabellaScott is right, they can use that space for meetings and hotdesking as needed.

Crazy how much effort and money goes into losing these court cases on behalf of the blue-haired community.

So Regus, a big provider of office space, charges from £65 per person per day for day offices. If 35 staff have to be in the office 2/3 days a week, let's say office space for 17.5 people 5 days a week all year. At £65 per person per day that comes to just under £300,000.

Have I got my sums right?

=((((52×5)-28)×35)׳/⁵)×£65
Max £316,680 ?

This makes the assumption that the job advertised as 2/3 days per week in London is typical of all GLP positions. The real average could be higher or lower

So far I've found 7 jobs, paying various salaries up to £75,000 p.a., and all have the same wording under 'Location', "Hybrid working. The postholder will be expected to attend our office in central London regularly – minimum of 2/3 days per week", for full time jobs (35 hours per week).

I think your assumption that GLP is paying for day offices is likely incorrect.

The accounts show liabilities for operating leases of £245k which would indicate that they probably have a rental lease term of at least a year and the rent is at least £245k per year

I looked at that too - lease liabilities of £395k in 2024 and £245k in 2025, so I wondered if lease costs were around £150k per year with about 20 months of lease left to run.

What range of salaries? Do you have rough descriptions of the positions?
Would be interesting to know if the work could only be performed in London.
At 300k and 35 people it would be nearly 10k a head for offices - seems a lot

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/programme-officer/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/campaign-technology-officer/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/head-of-content-editorial/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/journalist-campaigner-project-no-one-left-behind/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/head-of-tech-data/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/senior-associate-employment-law/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/legal-manager/

https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/campaigns-communications-manager/

Mostly dated 2025. That's just posts that needed filling, of course.

I also found one advert for a part-time job, 21 hours, in Scotland, dated 3/1/2023. https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/public-law-lawyer-scotland/

GLP announced on 27/11/2022 that it was opening a Scottish office, though the job advert says "You will be working with a leading Scottish law firm based in Edinburgh either as a secondee or as a consultant."

https://goodlawproject.org/scotland-office-launch-2023/

I vaguely remember someone digging up an address in Covent Garden. Very spenny

It's giving "over enthusiastic youtube content creator takes on many staff based on lucky first year of google adsense revenue"

Or is it "after receiving huge over funding for initial kickstarter campaign, spends all the money on expanding a new business unrelated to fulfilling original kickstarter pledges"

"we've raised lots of money for our countercultural arts exhibition"

"hey, let's set up a cat cafe in shoreditch"

£50k for comms manager?! Thats a lot for sending out a few begging emails and making the odd ranty fox-basher tiktok reel.

Perhaps they feel they have to offer that for someone of the necessary calibre, one who can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear or spin gold from straw.

Yeah but then your brain hasn’t been stewed in an artificial cocktail of synthetic hormones thought to induce dementia at high dose….

Perhaps they all work form home and only use that address for meetings and they pay them to forward post - but didn't somebody say the rent was £300,000 a year?

ETA - I see this has already been discussed.

But then I was just wondering what Sex Matters do about this and a according to the Charities Commission their address is:

5th Floor
167-169 Great Portland St
London
W1W 5PF

I can only conclude that this is a virtual business address that is rarely used by the companies who use it as their address, otherwise the lifts must be interesting.

I'm sure this is it, annual rent about £140k. There was definitely a bit on a trade website about the lease being agreed but it's disappeared now
No sure why they're being so coy about it, no-one is getting masked up to protest outside during school holidays from our side.
Agent's details from 2023

There's that bloody yellow chimney breast, backdrop to many tiktoks lol