Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

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The undermining of the rule of law affects us all but in different measure depending upon social and economic standing. 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. The talk began with Maugham getting candid with the audience when he reflected on his life from childhood to tax lawyer to founding the Good Law Project. JK Rowling, Phillip Pullman, Mike Galsworthy, Baroness Hale, Gina Miller, Steven Pinker and AC Grayling played a similar role. For that reason, this book deserves to be taken seriously, because the ideology underlying it is disturbing and dangerous.

Recently, he signed a declaration , with over 100 other lawyers, pledging not to act for those developing new fossil fuel projects or against those who protest such projects. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site.Maugham wrote: “We both know the review has got nothing to do with the quality of the book and everything to do with what The Times is - and where it stands in relation to my politics - which is exactly the point my tweet makes. 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. Critics argued that this violated the cab rank rule, according to which lawyers act for whoever seeks their services.

Sometimes GLP brings cases it estimates have a less than 50/50 chance of success because they raise important issues and expose where the law is wrong. Its rhetoric would be dangerous in the hands of a competent author, but even allowing for Maugham’s fumbling fingers, the ideas espoused in this book should worry anyone who cares to maintain the rule of law in the United Kingdom. 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. The reviewer - not Rowling - claimed that Maugham was "a first-time author who should not be encouraged to re-offend ever again". Rowling responded to her 14m followers: "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'.

It is only good insofar as it means judges are independent of the ideas and politicians he happens to dislike. Maybe he is now, but his account of his dysfunctional childhood and upbringing leaves one impressed he was able to overcome it and forge his career.