
Jo Maugham
@JolyonMaugham
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Director @GoodLawProject. King's Counsel. Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts. He/him.
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Joined November 2011
“Musicians came together and fully gave themselves to a song that was written by and for trans people. When the session ended, I broke down in tears and we all hugged—some of us were crying too. Something powerful happened that day."
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RT @GoodLawProject: Reform’s use of women’s safety as cover for racism is not just hypocritical, it’s dangerous. We’re fighting back. Join….
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Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to
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Simply pathetic. Once she wrote, ponderously, about how she was "interested in freedom of speech and have publicly defended it, even unto Donald Trump." Now she uses her billions to try and persuade people to bring hopeless legal actions against me.
@ForWomenScot @JohnBoyneBooks @GoodLawProject Be awful if @JohnBoyneBooks sued. I wonder if he’s got a friend who’d be delighted to fund him if he did? I’ll ask around in this room where I’m sitting alone.
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RT @GoodLawProject: Taking on the EHRC in court will be long and costly. Now more than ever, we need your help 👇.
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RT @GoodLawProject: 💥The fight goes on 💥. We are pleased to say that our case against the EHRC’s transphobic guidance will be heard in full….
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Well, not always. But definitely in General Election years.
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RT @GoodLawProject: We’re at @BristolHarbFest tomorrow! 🌊 . Find us at the Expression Stage and hear from @carolvorders, @DaleVince, @Jolyo….
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In accordance with our transparency principles, we have now updated our EHRC challenge page with our case as filed, the EHRC's response, our reply, and the responses of the Health & Safety Executive and the Secretary of State Bridget Phillipson.
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We challenged the EHRC on their transphobic guidance. The High Court has now given us directions to proceed with the case.
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Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV is the most hideously transphobic channel on your screens. It's clearly breaching broadcast impartiality laws. Please join us in complaining to Ofcom. We took down GB News' homophobia - now let's join forces against Murdoch.
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RT @joshi: A well-known historian in Liverpool demanded that @abi_whist take down her stories about him. Instead, she took down the paywa….
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The historian has been threatening us with High Court action and trying to intimidate our sources and staff
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The most interesting thing about these stats is that the most political judge of all - the Lord Chief Justice - is constitutionally responsible for choosing which judge hears which case against the Government (.
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My Keynote Lecture from 17 May 2024 at the Open University's Annual Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice.
🤯 stats, from the UK Constitutional Law Association blog, on the difference the judge makes to your prospects of succeeding in judicial review proceedings.
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RT @JujuliaGrace: Wes Streeting took £224,575 in donations from people and companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023-2….
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The health secretary told MPs: "I just think the sort of the BMA’s approach to this from start to finish has been completely wrong." | ITV National News
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RT @GoodLawProject: A detail we didn’t know four months ago – Peter Mandelson still had £6m of shares in Global Counsel 👀 .
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Lord Mandelson, Britain's ambassador to the US, still owns a major shareholding in a company which has lobbied for TikTok, Palantir, BMW and Shell
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We will today issue proceedings against the Equality Commission Northern Ireland. And it might be, for reasons we explain, that this becomes the key case in the fightback against the ideology of For Some Women Scotland.
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