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.

That letter - I got as far as Anna Katerina Awurakua -
and just 💜

I'm finding it weirdly (morbidly?) interesting that they have seemingly moved on from silencing regular people (via comments in online papers, sm etc) , slowly moving through the second tier of lawyers and journalists , and aiming upwards to the third tier of regulatory bodies. It's like a pincer movement since they have got most of the leading MPs of all parties under mind control.

However I'm hoping there are enough adults, with intelligence and thinking skills, who can say wtaf, no, bugger off. The toddlers need their tantrums to be handled very firmly now, no blinking allowed. Good luck Sarah

It’s been a while - got distracted by gender activism. Who knew we would be here in 2026? But it is fantastic to think that it was Mumsnet that provided the way for women to connect and organise - no Mumsnet, no FWS?

That’s fine, I was ‘outed’ by John Hemming in the Daily Mail in 2013?!? I think, so anonymity long gone.

I believe that Mumsnet, and Justine, had a lot of pressure put on them by the usual types of suspects, had Mumsnet advertisers complained to, etc etc. But this space was allowed to remain for sex realism. Well done to Mumsnet and Justine.

And now the tide is turning in other places. Along with people like you, standing up to the nonsense.

Hi, thanks so much for letting me know. I didn't want to cause you any additional hassle.

I remember you posting here years ago and we knew who you were, which is why I said your name, but then I just had a bit of a panic! Good luck with everything.

Thanks, @Columbidae Thought that was probably the case but wasn't sure.

Nice to see you here, @Spero. I'm another who is following your case with interest. It's beyond time to end this.

I do have to laugh that GLP are also considering going after Akua
FFS have you SEEN her son - he is scary :-)

"Mum and wife"

Funny, because he looks like a bloke in woman-face to me

You forgot ‘lesbian’ for the hat trick.

Yes, and also any such person who was unlawfully discriminated against or similar could potentially get help from a less batshit organisation. I'd need to have been turned down by a lot of other providers before giving GLP any consideration.

I believe his “lesbian” partner is also a man.

@RedToothBrush

An antihistamine OD can be really dangerous. People think that they are harmless but they are not by any stretch. Just putting a bit of info out there. I'm not defending Sparkles in any way, he's a waste of skin.

I had to stop taking antihistamines after realising (that is, reading the fucking advice leaflet) that they were causing me serious depression. SM would be advised to do the same.

WTF? I've heard it all now...

There is no mistaking it.

Barrister Details - Miss Anna Katerina Awurakua Reindorf KC

That's how she's registered to practice. Not sure why are you making fun of her chosen name but alright, as you wish you do.

And hope you are enjoying my IG! Leave a like and follow. I'll let my wife know that mumsnet thinks she's trans 😂. Because yeah, you can always tell.

You’re still not a lesbian.

HTH.

I wondered if that was the Aida that posted here as it seemed highly unlikely to have two tra men having that name. Sick to death of men claiming to be lesbians.

Absolutely. Even Ray Charles can see that's a man.

Are we having comprehension problems?

It's a great name - that's what the heart meant.

I haven't been anywhere near your IG. I haven't mentioned (or even thought about) the person you call your wife.

We women have enough male aggression in real life without you bringing it onto Mumsnet threads unnecessarily.

Aida's misunderstanding of the reaction to Akua's full name is quite revealing. I suspect it's not so much difficulty in reading comprehension as misreading other people's reactions.

As a convicted criminal twice over (at least) @AidaP has a history of violence and is not afraid to hold back. Maybe that’s why he’s fixated on a barrister.

Does seem to be a Jolly On acolyte so mimicking him as well as women? Fascinating.

I’ve never seen your wife, however, I based my belief that your wife is trans on a comment I read elsewhere. Whether it is true or not is irrelevant. YOU are not a lesbian.

He's a convicted criminal? Tbh I'm not even surprised he has a history of violence, especially when he writes flagrantly graphic, misogynistic messages like this towards women who refuse to validate his woman-face identity:

"...And let's send a clear message to the world: fuck bigots and especially nazirowling with a splintery rolling pin."

https://bsky.app/profile/aidap.bsky.social/post/3midp5hebd22a