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.

Is it a failed attempt at using language in a very clever way? For instance, "this extremely non-violent action, threatening to smash things up with a hammer, must be seen by every person in the whole world as clearly non-violent, otherwise anybody (but especially women known as CIS) saying it is violent is a deranged bigot, and violence must be done to them for their violent words, for demeaning the term non-violence by pointing out the truth"

When did cartoon images of masked men wielding hammers along with calls to action which will ‘be rarely legal’ count as ‘non violent action’?

Again, all I have is that he lives in some parallel universe

There is precedent for deluded men living in their own worlds. At least Maugham can tilt at his own windmill.

Yes. He’s not registered to practice but that doesn’t matter. Once you are called to the Bar you are a barrister and subject to regulation. They went after one for denying the Holocaust who hadn’t practiced in 7 years.

please, if this diminishes your trust and confidence in the profession please report him. If enough people speak up they may finally take action. https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/for-the-public/reporting-concerns.html

Thank you, I didnt realise that was something people could do! No shit it damages.confidence!!!

I think the rationale is that violence towards objects isnt violent. Only violence towards people counts as violence. Its a belief he may have but it doensnt seem to reflect the law.

Morally and practically, the damage and vandalism to objects is clearly used as a threat - it makes me think of abusive men punching walls etc

It’s very 1984 isn’t it, to demand that violence is seen as non-violence?

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential demand.”

I think anyone investigating the Bash Back and 'splintery rolling pin' posts would also be concerned about the safety of any children in the same household as those posters.

Once you believe that only and all people who feel they are women are women, it’s only a matter of time before the entirety language is open to feelings based redefinition.

When Magritte painted “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” he was just foreshadowing.

This does indeed call for the laugh reaction. Over on Reddit it would be a shoe in for r/murderedbywords NOT to be confused with literal genocide!

Yes indeed.

I think anyone investigating the Bash Back and 'splintery rolling pin' posts would also be concerned about the safety of any children in the same household as those posters.

Not to mention examining their hard drives.

Ceci n'est pas une pipebomb?

(Unsure of the gender of pipebomb. I suppose it IDs as female)

A bomb is feminine la bombe.

Hmm funny it coincides with the removal of Non Criminal Hate Incidents .

I'm all for honest advertising. A brilliant step showing the world that they must let violent, threatening men into women's spaces right now or risk them... being a bit more violent and threatening than usual?

Violent men insisting that they are not violent or abusive because they didn't hit you, they just smashed up the room around you whilst shouting and in fact you are the abuser here for saying such terrible things (like, you are scaring me please stop) about them... Hmmm, where have I seen this before?

Ex falso quodlibet

"From falsehood, anything follows"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principleofexplosion

Having studied a little classical logic, I have felt for a long time that Genderists' requirement to sign up to a core contradiction as the base of their beliefs will eventually compromise their ability to think critically about anything.

Darn, lost the link in an edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

I love that your link takes you to the option of looking at the "Elysian Fields Quarterly". Which turns out to be about baseball.

.... will eventually compromise their ability to think critically about anything.
Dr. Upton's 'I am not a robot therefore I am biological ...' testimony springs to mind

Actually I think Dr U knew exactly what he was doing there - anyone who has dealt with a certain type of power abuse would recognise the pattern.

"You know and I know that I'm taking the piss out of you, but you can't prove it, and the more you try the more I'll widen my eyes and look shocked and the more unhinged you will sound"

It's a variation on "It's just a joke! Jeez you Feminists are so uptight!"

The relishing of "we've been forced to aggressively hurt them" is so, so Trumpian.

Sarah Phillimore

What is interesting is that this report makes no mention of the comments and behaviour of the complainant nor gives any example of what I said. Thus removing very important context. No doubt there are people reading this who will think that the GLP have a point and the BSB have failed.

I look forward to the no doubt inevitable judicial review with unseemly delight.

BSB rejects Good Law Project complaint over gender critical barrister
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/bsb-rejects-good-law-project-complaint-over-gender-critical-barrister