Left-wing campaign group Good Law Project (GLP) has been accused of hypocrisy after director Jolyon Maugham KC restructured it as an organisation owned by a ‘purpose trust’ in Jersey. The Mail has the story:
Legal experts say the move is “enormously hypocritical” because becoming a trust will “give it the benefits” of being set up like a charity without having oversight from regulators.
GLP, which uses judicial reviews to challenge the Government and public bodies over contentious issues, has repeatedly criticised others over their offshore arrangements.
In 2024, it published an article titled ‘The offshore bonanza powering Reform’s far-Right rhetoric’.
In 2019, Mr Maugham hit the headlines after he announced on X (then Twitter) that he had killed a fox with a baseball bat on Boxing Day while wearing his wife’s kimono. …
GLP was set up in 2017 as a non-profit company limited by guarantee. …
When Tory leader, Rishi Sunak, pledged to crack down on activist lawyers who take legal action to frustrate the will of Parliament. He promised to resist what he called “lawfare” and listed examples of cases – all involved Mr Maugham. …
Criminal barrister Matthew Scott said: “Although the GLP is not a charity, it constantly wraps itself in the clothing of sanctimonious moral rectitude to solicit, and to receive, millions of pounds – well over £4million in 2024–2025 – from the public every year.”
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Is a Jersey based firm allowed to practice law in the UK?
Jolyon Maugham – up there with Kahn, Blair, Campbell, O’Brien in the Consistently Dreadful People league tables. He has tough competition but he’s doing well.
Mr Wayne Kerr
He always was a revolting little tyke.
This does not surprise me in the slightest.
Like that indescribable green bloke, I cannot understand why anyone thinks they are worth listening to.
even if I suddenly became a raving lefty overnight, the thought of either of them being on my side so to speak would cause me acute embarrassment!
Hypocrits R us.
Can we send the kimono-clad fox-killer to Coventry, or anywhere else incommunicado?
“Ah, but this is different, we’ve done this to escape fascism…”
Or something…
Abolish charitable status. Abolish registered charities. I do not consent to my taxes subsidising any cause no matter how worthy. If you support something, donate more.
Not a single penny of government (ie, taxpayers’) money should go to charity. Governments have no right to decide which charities receive taxpayer funding and which don’t.
I’d make an exception for state-to-state level disaster relief, but not state-to-charity.
The whole thing is a racket.
100%
His early life checks out…
And who made the law as it is? Change the lawmakers.
So much for the champion of transparency. Typical left wing “do as I say not as I do” behaviour.