GLP are going after Sarah Phillimore and are going to lose - Part Two

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The Story so Far

Part 1

The first thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5400132-glp-are-going-after-sarah-philmore-and-are-going-to-lose?page=1

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."

Part 2

So the Fox Basher decided to tell massive lies about Sarah Phillimore now he faces a defamation action.

GLP's case against Sarah rested on evidence from "Kate" and this turned out to be the infamous man in a dress Sophie Sparkles. A guy who was too obnoxious, chaotic and threatening even for the Scottish Greens to tolerate. Even for someone as incompetent as the Fox Basher this plan seemed particularly bad.

A band of helpful gardeners assembled and planted a lot of seeds and soon Sarah's garden was blooming.

Sarah assembled a huge dossier of evidence about Sparkles showing his instability. She carefully built up her case using her excellent legal skills.

After giving the Fox Basher plenty of time to apologise Sarah took action for defamation in December and her blog outlines the story so far nicely:

Letter before Action
I publish here my letter to Jolyon Maugham. There is no freedom of speech to tell harmful lies about others.

For the background to all of this, please see my response to the complaint of the Good Law Project which they made to the Bar Standards Board on August 26 2025. Shortly after this complaint, Mr Maugham chose to assert to his many followers online that I had ‘led a campaign of harassment’ so wicked that it led a trans identifying man to attempt suicide. I deal with that claim at some length in my response. It is not true.

I asked via email on 30 August 2025 for Maugham to delete, apologise and make a donation of £5K to For Women Scotland. His refusal came a few days later in a series of videos posted to TikTok and Instagram where he was clearly excited about the (false) idea that JK Rowling would be joining me in legal action against him. Being able to tell his followers that he faced attack by the Nasty Billionaire Transphobe would clearly have more cachet and would attract more funds to the Good Law Project than a much less sexy tussle with a junior provincial barrister.

I am sorry to disappoint Mr Maugham. It’s just me. Well me, and the so far 990 very generous people who have helped me raise the money to be able to even contemplate this kind of legal action. My grateful thanks to every one of them. I do not think that anyone has ‘freedom of speech’ to tell harmful lies about another person and certainly not a senior member of a regulated profession, who will rely on his status to give his words power and cause harm.

https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/letter-before-action

Now the Bar Standards Board has decided that Sarah has no case to answer and released a letter explaining how the GLP had failed again. Details here:

Right Here. Right Now.

Another stunning technical victory for the Good Law Project shows that sanity is being restored to the public debate about gender identity, slowly but ever so surely.

On 27 March 2026 I received the welcome and to be honest not entirely expected news that the Bar Standards Board was not going to investigate further the complaint of the Good Law Project against me on behalf of trans identifying man Euan Weddell, aka Sophie Molly/Sparkles.

https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/right-here-right-now

GLP are planning to release a statement which will no doubt spin what has happened as much as possible in its usual style.

Will the Fox Basher's long history of misogynistic hatred for any women who has knowledge about biology and legal incompetence come back to haunt him again?

If he is defeated it will be a warning to all TAs that this type of bigotry and massive lies are not going to be accepted legally in a country where women and men are legally equal.

Whatever happen's Sarah's bravery once again will pay a significant part in restoring a world in which discussing the reality of the existence of male and female human beings is accepted.

Her garden still needs more plants, and harvest so far has been excellent and you can keep watching this thread for more proof of that.

Just realised there isn't a like option - so just to say I like this!

Sparkles getting TA criticism. Apparently the Terfs are watching what he says.

https://x.com/TheParty1sOver/status/2051781482272678219

Oh dear Jolylon to think you are going to court to defend this bloke and he doesn't even rate you. To be fair to Sparkles who is very deluded being able to notice GLP is kind of useless is surprising.

By the way even if they get this to Europe [very unlikely none off the cases they raise is relevant] you have to remember they might LOSE. Especially if their lawyers are useless. If they do the TA cause across Europe is in serious trouble.

I haven't followed them closely, but have the been any signs that the likes of the Graun are stepping away a bit from their previous enthusiasm for the GLP? They are getting loonier by the week, after all.

A case is only lost because the judiciary/police/CPS/all of the above/everyone in the entire world are at fault.

Such unshakeable belief in their ideology would be something to behold if they applied it to a worthwhile cause.

May I submit for consideration a potential improvement on my earlier entry:

Bratman and Robbing

I wish they would hurry up and get a case to Europe. Any case will now have to overturn the superb logic and analysis of the UK Supreme Court and thats highly unlikely. The sooner this hits home the better. None of these people seem to understand that the GRA already gives them the rights that Goodwin won them and they’re not entitled to any more… 🙄

If only the law could refer to the gobbledegook in my head and apply it to the rest of the world in the way only I can see fit.

Well it's not for want of trying 🙃

https://archive.ph/mh0qq

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2026/a-criminal-abuse-of-the-law/

GLP abandoned their anti JKR stickers suddenly possibly after Warner Brothers letter. They are getting nervous.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5523679-good-law-project-are-now-selling-jk-rowlling-is-a-transphobe-stickers?page=8

Advantage Sarah! Are GLP beginning to realise they are bad at this law stuff. I am wondering if Sparkles recent anti GLP rants also might help in case.

Adding to general HP news, they are gonna be BIG MAD as the HBO TV series has been commissioned for a second series before the first one is even out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv2em4r3mno

And the issue is only a moral panic...

yes of course it is. This is why they keep losing. There is just no capacity to engage with reality. Which is the bottom line of the whole belief system. And as GLP may discover, you can only fuck about for so long before real world consequences kick in and you do some finding out.

Oh noes. Jolyon got corporate Warner Brothers attention not the personal attention of JKR.

He must be GUTTED. His harassment campaign is not going to plan.

To be fair, we don't know that for certain.

I mean, it's possible that someone, say another lawyer, warned the vulpicide, in a friendly and supportive manner, that he was on thin ice, and that FK listened carefully to the advice and, realising that it was correct, acted accordingly.

I swear I'm keeping a straight face here.

I would expect nothing less given your username Cher 😂

I will admit that it does give me an unfair advantage.

Or Bratman and Throbbing? (In the Forces slang version of throbbing).

What's going on here?
Change of ownership structure for the GLP Ltd, new trust based in Jersey & controlled by Jolyon.
All announced on a very busy news day, 🤔
What can it mean?

I suspect it's to obfuscate their finances. As a former tax lawyer the Fox Botherer will know all about the best ways to hide their financials.

I think he was upset that the High Court refused to treat GLP as having standing in the Judicial Review of the EHRC interim guidance. As I recall the judge said that charities could have standing, where the subject matter was relevant to their purpose and where they represented a number of affected parties, but GLP was a private company and had no more interest than any (other) busybody.

JM wants the status of a charity without the hindrances that come with it, so this is his next best idea.

Update - GLP are appealing against the BSB decision that Sarah has freedom of speech. This probably will help her libel action.

Sarah Phillimore

Interesting framing here. The BSB did something - just not the ‘thing’ that Jolyon used other people’s money to attempt to buy. My behaviour was found not to be a regulatory concern.

The GLP did not assist Mr Weddell with a private prosecution or application for a civil injunction. I conclude from this they -correctly- realised such actions would fail.

They hoped - reasonably - that the regulator was still captured by their ideology.

This failed. I welcome the opportunity to point and laugh at the next failure. I just hope they dont screw too many vulnerable people out of too much money.

https://nitter.net/SVPhillimore/status/2053012624212631606#m

Whenever I try and click on a bitter link I just get a blank screen. Any top tips please?

Isnt Weddell whining on about how the GLP aren’t good enough all over social media? Awks!

Make sure you're not just on nitter 'home'. Check you have all the est of the address included. Sometimes I have to do a bit of copying and pasting into a text file to sort it

GLP has gone public with appeal.

Sarah Phillimore
12h
https://nitter.net/SVPhillimore/status/2053231209665220652#m

The letter has been published by the GLP.

^https://goodlawproject.org/were-challenging-the-bsbs-failure-to-act-on-trans-harassment/^

As the GLP have made their complaint about me public, then every aspect of it will be public and I will defend myself publicly.

I do hope they enjoy what they have asked for.

Thread here with Sarah's hilarious take down of the letter:
https://nitter.net/SVPhillimore/status/2053227358702723572#m

Remember Sarah's garden still available via her blog see the link in the first post in thread at top of the page. The stakes are higher than ever so any seeds help.

Yes we mentioned that trend a little earlier in the thread. It looks like panic is setting in at the GLP and at Sparkles house for different reasons. More mistakes are being made.