The political landscape is increasingly polarised, almost tribal. This book covers one arm of the state (The law) challenging the legislator ( the incumbent government). Today, challenging or holding to account the government doesn’t give rise to debate, it entrenches people’s beliefs. Often, these are based on nothing more than holding faith and facts in the same regard. If you like or see your identity in the reflection of this government then you will not like the challenge this book documents. He gained notoriety when he brought a series of high-profile cases against the Government through the Good Law Project. This included legal action over the procurement of PPE and the employment of a PR agency with Tory links to work on Covid-19 communications at the height of the pandemic.

In Bringing Down Goliath, Jolyon Maugham shares his inspiration and his purpose, and he reveals the story behind these landmark cases and the hidden fault lines of our judicial system. He offers an empowering, bold new vision for how the law can work better for all of us in the fight against injustice. Her remarks triggered a row as Maugham first suggested Rowling should read his book before turning his sights on her gender-critical views. 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. Taxation law specialist Maugham was widely condemned in 2019 after claiming he had “killed a fox with a baseball bat” while wearing his wife's kimono in his garden on Boxing Day. 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. By law, the government must publish a summary of any publicly awarded contracts within a certain timeframe.Maugham also responded to a letter signed by 150 writers including Rowling, which denounced the “restriction of debate”. Initially, in turns out that a couple of contracts had been awarded to Tory party donors on terms unfavourable to the government and details not published. Later today, WH Allen, part of Penguin Random House, will announce the publication of my new book, Bringing Down Goliath – How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful.

This story is about greed and power, violence and betrayal, lies and deception, survival, redemption and love. Mercy's story is scandalously unique, a never-before-told story.Mr Maugham claimed that the bad review of Bringing Down Goliath, 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”.

I expected not to agree with this book, and I don't. I expected it to be badly written, and it often is. Yet it’s not a bad book, and reading it is certainly revealing. Maugham gave an eye-opening portrayal of what he is fighting for when he spoke of the statue atop London’s Old Bailey. The statue is blindfolded and holding a pair of scales that suggest equality in law separate from political influence, which Maugham believes to be inaccurate. He focuses on collectivising the law for public means, as the law often mirrors the government’s political preference. He expresses that the Good Law Project is an antidote of the notion that law is a victory dance of power.For a start, Jolyon Maugham is not quite part of the privileged North London elite that many will have assumed. 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. It’s a reminder that for everyone in public life there’s a real person behind the persona. Thus is the words of BBC’s then Legal Affairs Correspondent, Joshua Rosenberg, “ The Hoffman affair must have done great damage to the International reputation of the English judiciary “. How right he was! Good law is difficult and, to most people, rather boring. It does not play well on social media. One benefit of the less highly networked culture of the recent past is that the acquisition of influence tended to be slow, and meritorious; whereas today, a certain kind of status within the ever-growing online legal world can be achieved swiftly, by playing to the cheap seats. So, for the time being at least, it is hard to completely refute Maugham’s clichéd insistence that “the real court is that of public opinion”.

Bringing Down Goliath is based on the true life story of a young woman, who grew up in a farmhouse. This book's main character, Mercedes Grant, was a naïve, beautiful woman who was challenged by the painful death of both parents at a young age. But that was easy compared to what she was about to face! Anyone on this thread who believes that wasting billions – documented by the government’s own watchdog – on overpriced, unsuitable equipment is a good idea needs to have their heads examined. Hoffman was also Chairman and Director (unpaid) of Amnesty International Charity Ltd, a satellite of AI. Hoffman’s wife had also worked as an administrator at AI for many years. Disappearing WhatsApp messages relating to official government business – contradicting the government’s own guidelines – was a case worth taking up, but lost. They work for us and should be transparent. A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project.Thus a new path was forged taking Mercy's life in a uniquely surprising direction. Having a new found purpose and spirit, Mercy went on to shake the very foundations upon which our society is built! As a youngster, Maugham says, he never doubted that he would be successful. And if we adopt his definition of success — basically, winding people up ‘til they slag you off — he was correct. It is his insistence that he is, and was at all relevant times, right that precipitates much of the text of this work. (“Of course I get stuff wrong sometimes,” he concedes, but details are not shared.) Journalists who upset him, colleagues who question him, solicitors who take against him, and of course judges who find against him: they all have their turpitude explained to them, in painstaking detail. This book has a central and unfulfilled purpose in common with the Good Law Project itself: the protection and improvement of the reputation of Jolyon Maugham KC. Given how confused the rest of his writing is, Maugham is strikingly clear on this point. Judicial diversity, for example, is not good if judges simply reflect the population they serve. The “real problem” which diversity must solve is changing the sort of judgments that come down, so that judges take the “political context” into account in the way Maugham likes. A judge who comes from a demographic that makes them close to a “feminism of privilege” (apparently, being older and female?) is likely to issue suspect decisions. Maugham wants a judiciary which speaks not with many voices (which, of course, is the definition of diversity) but rather “a single voice”, presumably one which is in perfect concord with him. Maugham doesn’t mind if his political goals are achieved either by a written constitution (which judges cannot pass) or judges simply judicially inventing one. Autobiographical and alluring, Jolyon Maugham portrays his uneasy relationship with the establishment in Bringing Down Goliath , which speaks to people who believe in the power of public law. He reveals that his vision is to give power to the underdogs, or David, in reference to the title, which alludes to the classic story of David and Goliath. Maugham’s reference to Goliath is an indirect reference to the people in power that haven’t been held to account, which is the driving force that led him to creating the Good Law Project in 2017.