It may not be quite coherent enough to be a threat to the rule of law, but it is a dangerous watershed in the mainstreaming of an ideology utterly inimical to our present legal system.

By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. BUT if you want a succinct overview of the current government's deliberate attacks on the rule of law, this is what you should read. However, I don't think anyone bashing the author who's clearly angry at her, has anything factual to say. In this empowering book, Jolyon Maugham reveals what has driven his inspiration and purpose, and offers a bold new vision for how the law can work better for all of us in the fight against injustice.I'm not sure if he mentions his battles with GC women in it because the review doesn't mention it but I thought some people here would like to read the review. Victory was claimed in 2020, when the government agreed to review the policy, publishing an improved Energy National Policy Statement the following year. As is the wont of low liberals, Maugham regards activism as taking precedence over established rules. I really hope at least one and preferably all 3 of his big projects to fruition and I look forward to seeing more actions. Today, challenging or holding to account the government doesn’t give rise to debate, it entrenches people’s beliefs.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. From that perspective, I'd say it would have been perfectly possible to honour the 2016 vote without leaving the EU ( https://treasonableman. Critics argued that this violated the cab rank rule, according to which lawyers act for whoever seeks their services.It is eye opening and sometimes a little depressing and frustrating to realise how poor our democracy and rule of law is. Alongside journalist George Monbiot and Ecotricity founder Dale Vince, they landed on challenging a government planning policy which favoured fossil fuel over renewable energy infrastructure. 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". The net-zero case last July was the last time that he can remember GLP being found to have standing. His new “book”, Bringing Down Goliath, is a tedious, almost unreadable combination of Pooterisms , delusions of grandeur, and descriptions of his tweeting — intermixed with rambling thoughts.

Even so, the opening gambit still clunks like a sack of coal being emptied down a chute: the thing Maugham is trying to convey just doesn’t make sense.He claimed that gender-critical feminists - who believe sex is biological and cannot be changed - had rejected his offers to debate the issue with him. The judges will decide whether the firm can be subject to private legal action over these discharges, in this case from the canal’s owner.