In February, I questioned whether Labour shadow ministers have any idea how to implement their near totemic pledge – set out in their New Deal for Working People – to “ban zero-ho…| Labour Pains
Last month, I noted on this blog how November had been a big, bad month for Jolyon Maugham and his (Not Very) Good Law Project. And how – thanks to the Court of Appeal and the Charity Commiss…| Labour Pains
Back in October 2022, when Jolyon ‘Angry Dad’ Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project were still using Crowdjustice to host their crowdfunders, I reported on this blog the strange case of the GLP’s crowdfunder in support of … Continue reading →| Labour Pains
Since the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act on 16 April, three organisations – the trans advocacy group TransLucent, the civil liberties group Liber…| Labour Pains
Social media is currently host to a number of quite astonishing clips from the Parliament TV recording of yesterday’s two-hour oral evidence session of the Trans+ Rights Select Committee of M…| Labour Pains
So, we now have not one, not two, but three separate crowdfunders in support of proposed legal challenges to the draft revised Code of Practice issued by the Equality & Human Rights Commission on 20 May, in response to the … Continue reading →| Labour Pains
[Note: This page, including the Table below, is regularly updated] You ain’t nothin’ but a lost causeAnd this ain’t nothin’ like it once wasI know you think you’re suc…| Labour Pains
As noted on this blog last month, it was always going to be fun watching Jolyon Maugham KC and his Good Law Project try to re-invent themselves, following the demise on 4 July last year of the Tory…| Labour Pains
The Supreme Court is comprised of very able and mature minds, aware of the law and of their duties. The case brought by For Women Scotland concerns a pure and straightforward matter of statutory reading and I have no doubt … Continue reading →| Labour Pains
We believe that the so-called Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from a man with titties and a woman with a beard before handing down a decision with the profoundest possible conse…| Labour Pains
In September last year, Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project announced, in an email to supporters, that they will no longer be bringing legal challenges on transgender-related issues, as It’s getting harder and harder to win rights … Continue reading →| Labour Pains
So, having launched only three new crowdfunders in the first seven months of the Starmer era, and then starting their 2025-26 reporting year on 1 February with just two open crowdfunders, Jolyon Ma…| Labour Pains
So, tomorrow, Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project will stagger to the end of their 2024-25 reporting year (1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025). As documented on this blog in Decem…| Labour Pains
Gaie Delap waits at home with her bags packed, terrified of the next knock at the door as she waits for the police to arrive and take her to prison. This 77-year-old woman is living under the…| Labour Pains
It’s almost Crimbo time, which means Jolyon “I am a KC” Maugham KC will soon be recording the End of Year video message in which he gushes about how successful he and his (Not Ver…| Labour Pains
It’s November, winter is almost here, but Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project are still floundering around, trying to work out how to “re-conceptualise” themselv…| Labour Pains
So, three months on from the General Election of 4 July, Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project have finally launched their first crowdfunded legal challenge of the Starmer era. It&#…| Labour Pains
Sometimes, it’s hard not to feel just a teeny-weeny twinge of sympathy for Jolyon Maugham, the bloviating barrister and executive director of the (Not Very) Good Law Project. In July, Jolyon …| Labour Pains
Next week, when MPs return to Westminster to begin work on the ambitious legislative programme set out in the King’s Speech on 17 July, the new Labour Government will be well into the second …| Labour Pains
In July, the Government launched a formal, 12-week consultation on a proposal to establish a new Single Enforcement Body for employment rights. You might even have submitted a response (the consult…| Labour Pains
Almost three years ago, in December 2021, I concluded on this blog that, in terms of progress towards the creation of a single enforcement body for workplace rights – a reform I had first pro…| Labour Pains
On 5 June, having already grifted more than £20,000 for legal advice on challenging NHS correspondence with parents of trans-identifying young people on puberty blockers, Jolyon ‘I used to be…| Labour Pains
Last month on this blog, I catalogued Jolyon ‘I am a KC’ Maugham’s three-year vendetta against the Charity Commission, including, most recently, a crowdfunded threat of legal acti…| Labour Pains
Last night’s launch by the (Not Very) Good Law Project of a new crowdfunder – in support of a possible legal challenge in defence of services provided by the controversial, Singapore-ba…| Labour Pains
In January 2023, at the end of a lengthy blog post cataloguing the existential legal defeats that had made 2022 an annus horribilis for Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project, I sugg…| Labour Pains
In January, I noted on this blog that – just like one of the RAF’s bombers in 1942 and one of the Natural History Museum’s dinosaur skeletons in 1975 – one of the (Not Very)…| Labour Pains
I wasn’t intending to post another Good Grift Watch update until early February but, thanks mainly to Jolyon Maugham’s Big Christmas Meltdown, December turned out to be such a bumper mo…| Labour Pains
