Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

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Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

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Judges who agree with him are heroic for breaking with legal orthodoxy, while judges who disagree let their Tory bias overcome the same orthodoxy.

In Bringing Down Goliath , he recounts campaigns for public transparency and victims of sexual assault. The problem, however, is that Maugham doesn’t realise that the means of the rule of law are an end in themselves.In the book’s last chapter - aptly named ‘Slingshots’ - Maugham reveals that GLP is looking at creating a platform for sharing legal advice which can be used for multiple actions. For example, holding the more than 300 local authorities which have declared a climate emergency to account. Maugham gave an eye-opening portrayal of what he is fighting for when he spoke of the statue atop London’s Old Bailey.

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 book confirmed my belief that the legal route is the most effective way to hold our politicians accountable. It is now the largest legal campaign group on the UK and has won some of the most important constitutional cases in recent memory. I believe Mercy Grant is a true American Hero for standing up for the rights of all of us and taking on our corrupt legal system.He plays a prominent role in the campaign against Brexit, making legal challenges and supporting the revocation of Article 50. 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. Viewed with an open mind, this book is not political but does cover politics and holds it to account using the rule of law.

JK Rowling, Phillip Pullman, Mike Galsworthy, Baroness Hale, Gina Miller, Steven Pinker and AC Grayling played a similar role. There is a superb tackling of the way in which Judges are selected and their place in the British constitution. 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. Bringing Down Goliath principally suffers because it draws exclusively on case law and legal work within which the author has been directly involved.

On its own scorecard, GLP chalks up 44 per cent wins, 35 per cent losses, and 21 per cent mixed results. It breaks the profession's “cab rank” rule, which says that a barrister must take a case they are qualified for, provided they are available to do so, in the interests of fair representation. 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). For years, Maugham has pursued progressive causes in the courts – these range from campaigns against Brexit and the Conservative government to support for Uber drivers – and crowdfunded these on Twitter. I couldn't put this book down, the story is detailed with good flow and kept my attention right to the end!



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