FINALLY!

Claim form in libel issued. Let's go.

On 29 August 2025 Jolyon Maugham defamed me to his 400K followers on X, refused to delete and apologise, later republished and used the money raised by the Good Law Project in its general ‘trans defence’ fund to instruct a KC to draft a complaint about me to my regulator, presumably in the hope that I would be disbarred.

I set up my crowdfunder in early September and your generous donations have enabled me to issue a claim form in defamation today on 22 May 2026. This process has taken rather longer than I had hoped but the mills of God of course grind slowly. I have had some good news along the way - on 27 March 2026 the BSB rejected the Good Law Project complaint that I had ‘harassed’ the young trans woman ‘Kate’ into an attempted overdose of anti histamines (aka the 39 year old man Euan) and that rejection was reassuringly robust. Maugham then instructed his KC to draft a request to a review that was made on 9 May 2026; a document that I found reassuringly weak in both its analysis and claims.

Roddy Dunlop KC has offered to represent me No Win No Fee and I am very grateful - this will certainly help your money go further and provides me with some equality of arms against Maugham, who will no doubt further raid the GLP funds to pay for very pricey silks.

So now we begin. Libel is of course notoriously tricky and expensive. If I lose then I will lose my house. It’s the only asset I have and costs are likely to be in the region of at least £200K.

So why am I doing this? Concerned friends have offered me identical worried and quizzical expressions. What will I actually achieve? How can this be worth the only asset I have? I have obviously thought about this long and hard. I am a fan of having somewhere to live, especially my home for the last 14 years.

I thought about it again when watching Legends on Netflix on Friday night. This is a truth adjacent story about some plucky Customs Officials in the early 90s who with very little training or resources, managed to bring down two major drug cartels and seize 20 tonnes of heroin. And so what? Fast forward to 2026 and drugs remain a significant societal scourge, cut down one cartel, two more spring up in its place.

But on that analysis we would all do nothing and we would all be nothing. I operate from the simple principle that Maugham is doing significant harm now - to our profession, to the rule of law, to the rights of women and the safety of children. And many continue to take him seriously.

For example, I noted with serious concern that on May 15 Ofcom announced that it was working with ‘experts’ such as the Good Law Project.

We have worked with a range of organisations to gather evidence about suspected illegal terrorist content and illegal hate speech online, including antisemitic and anti-Muslim material. As part of this, we have received and independently reviewed evidence from a number of expert organisations including British Future, the Antisemitism Policy Trust, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Community Security Trust, Good Law Project, HOPE not hate, Tech Against Terrorism and Tell MAMA.

The Good Law Project are not ‘experts’. They are an unregulated and unaccountable outfit controlled by only one man who has a very particular hobby horse. They should not be taken seriously by Ofcom to offer advice on ‘internet hate’, particularly given Maugham’s clear endorsement of domestic terrorism.

Maugham has now shifted his operation to Jersey, to ensure that he avoids scrutiny, or as he would describe it - to replicate the characteristics of charity status without being bound by the 'moving political guardrails policed by the Charity Commission’.

The Good Law Project raises money off the back of vulnerable people’s fears and they consistently misrepresent what they have achieved or hope to achieve. They in fact do harm to the cause they claim to be fighting for, most recently demonstrated by yet another victory for a woman denied single sex facilities in the NHS. The tribunal judgment at para 194.1 noted that the GLP’s previous failed attempt to challenge EHRC interim guidance in the High Court, cemented binding authority that an employer who permits trans women to use the women’s toilets in effect no longer provides single sex facilities for women as defined in Regulation 20(c) of the Workplace Regulations.

The Good Law Project is indivisible from Maugham; it is simply his vehicle to showcase his own peculiar ideological fixations. He has clogged up the courts, wasted time and significantly extended and inflamed the harms caused by the ongoing insanity over sex versus gender.

I think the harm Maugham does extends significantly beyond what he has tried to do to me. I think it is worth standing up against this, and him. Even if twenty years from now a hundred more Maughams proliferate, at least I tried to do something about this one. I think my defamation action will be illuminating for many who still consider him ‘expert’.

And maybe I too could be a Netflix drama about a plucky underdog who pulled off something special. Suggest some titles in the comments!