But the event was spectacularly upstaged by a succession of leaks to loyalist activist Jamie Bryson, who proceeded to live-tweet the meeting. He doesn’t grandstand or preen, he makes us understand what the law is for and how it can be used to serve noble humanitarian ends, challenge injustice and curb the abuse of power. Those types of insults are very difficult to disprove because any effort to disprove it will own further your association with that characteristic. The High Court has set a hearing date for early July, and Maugham believes the case will have “very profound impacts” if it succeeds. Elon refuses to allow collective bargaining - but collective bargaining is part of the Swedish model.

Jolyon Maugham KC founded Good Law Project with the belief that the law can also put power in the hands of ordinary people.Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. Maugham doesn’t mind if his political goals are achieved either by a written constitution (which judges cannot pass) or judges simply judicially inventing one. When we think about whether or not to bring a case we absolutely have in mind whether there is an actual or latent public interest.

In Bringing Down Goliath , he makes other comments about the integrity of the judiciary which will anger colleagues. This blindness to ultimate consequences is also evident in his account of my specialist subject: the Brexit saga. I'm sometimes asked how to handle bad reviews and usually answer along the lines of, 'we've all had them and it's never fun. The word “Twitter” appears but once in the index of Jolyon Maugham’s memoir cum social action manifesto Bringing Down Goliath.

Regeringen (och alla svenska regeringar) borde också leta upp strategiska tänkare, för många finns sannolikt inte inom det egna partiet. Mr Maugham claimed the bad review of his book, which explores a series of high-profile cases brought against the Government by his governance watchdog the Good Law Project, was because of where The Times "stands in relation to my politics".

I couldn't put this book down, the story is detailed with good flow and kept my attention right to the end! A judge who comes from a demographic that makes them close to a “feminism of privilege” (apparently, being older and female? Now the largest legal campaign group in the UK, Good Law Project is shining light into corners the establishment would rather keep dark - from the failures of Brexit to the still-developing PPE scandal, to the tax arrangements of business giants like Uber. His work is worth taking seriously, not because it has any scholarly, literary, or other value (it is precisely as awful as Zhu’s review describes), but rather, because beneath the many, many layers of accumulated idiocy, Bringing Down Goliath represents an ideological attack on the foundations of the rule of law.For a start, Jolyon Maugham is not quite part of the privileged North London elite that many will have assumed. In a moment of introspection, Maugham does acknowledge that the Miller 1 case "turned out to be somewhat unhelpful" to the Remain cause, and that he had not "foreseen any longer-term consequences of winning the right for Parliament to vote".

This is how Jolyon Maugham KC describes it in his new book Bringing Down Goliath, which charts the origins and ongoing battles of the Good Law Project (GLP).Would highly recommend anyone with the vaguest interest in politics or the legal system to give this a read.