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.

@chagula But the GLP would not be able to represent Maugham in any way. If she includes them.

That is what she wrote on Twitter. I don't think JM is trying to get GLP added as a defendant to avoid paying for his own libel (if that's the outcome) though, or if he is, it's unlikely to work.

Vegan Cat issues.

He has a daughter who is trans identifing.

I think Maugham now has two trans identifying daughters? Bought drugs for the eldest one, as reported by The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/15/ive-had-to-become-my-own-doctor-trans-young-people-on-life-after-the-cass-review

Kinda hard to not to go all in for the cause, otherwise you might have to accept the long term harm that you’ve enabled for children.

I wonder if people will read that article in 20 years time and wonder what on earth they were putting in the water at the Guardian at the time it was written.

You'd think so, along with all those "Woman murders woman" headlines. We can only hope.

This is a very interesting question. Is someone unwell if they have batshit ideas? What about David Icke and his turquoise period? That seems similar to me. Or his thing about lizards from outer space?

I’m not so sure that there really must be saner TiM our Jolyon could champion.

Even assuming that that mythical figure, the TiM who just wants to live their life, is real; all of them would be - well, just living their lives, getting on with their jobs, seeing their friends - whatever. What that leaves for the GLP is the absolute raging nutters. Maybe SM really is the best of the bunch.

I feel so sorry for the BSB. They have to deal with blokes like @aidap who repeatedly write to them. (I noticed this post after he plopped on to another thread in this section of Mumsnet)

The Bar Standards Board has decided that mocking a trans woman’s suicide attempt falls below regulatory concern

So I’ve sent senior leadership a letter about the anti-trans rot and bigotry this exposes.

A hard copy is in the post, because apparently “standards” now need explaining in writing.

He mentions in the letter that he had also written to them about Akua Reindorf KC 🙄

https://bsky.app/profile/aidap.bsky.social/post/3mibbgyrets2h

😮

Thank you for these threads. I am watching with interest and shamelessly stealing. It’s well overdue to end this.

Good luck Spero. It’s been awhile since you have popped up here.

That bsky account mentioned by Chagula ^ explains a lot

Yes he is a regular plopper, very keen to tell us all what bigots we are for not accepting his parody of womanhood.

Totally honoured to be able to help you, in any way.

Sarah Phillimore on X: "Good luck going after @akuareindorf. Seriously. You will need it. You will need all the luck in the world because you have nothing else going for you. https://t.co/hINHKe8JhS" / X

For those who like to put a face to a name

https://www.instagram.com/aidaa.paul/

Well that's a tick box list of cliches

The man, the legend...

Just curious but I haven't seen the name Spero before. Who is it?

Sarah Phillimore
I publish this part of Weddell’s statement in the public interest as I think it profoundly revealing.

A. A 39 year old man describes himself as a ‘regular girl’.
B. Describes me as ‘rich and powerful’. I am a disabled legal aid lawyer.
C. Claims ‘B’ makes it hard for him to ‘push back’.

The only power I have are my words and that I am not afraid to use them. I can see that in 2026 this is great power indeed.

The only argument gender identity ideologues appear to have is that they will kill themselves if exposed to any argument, challenge or criticism they do not like.

I do not agree that law and policy should be determined by the most manipulative.

I hope others are with me on this
https://nitter.net/SVPhillimore/status/2039969156620021866#m

Mumsnet is with you.

Garden has 43,422v seeds but could do with more.

Thanks for the link, just donated to Sarah's fund.

To be fair , Sarah has more than her words. She also has the fact that she is based in reality.

It's Sarah Phillimore, the barrister this thread is discussing. She used to post here years ago, nice to see her again.

Edited to add: If anyone thinks it best that the name is removed, please let me know or report my comment.

Anyone as fragile as that should come off social media. In fact, they should stop reading anything about anything.