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. 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. In March, the signatories vowed not to act for new fossil fuel projects or to prosecute peaceful climate protesters. In addition to an explanation about how the law in this country actually works - all written in a very accessible, and sometimes amusing, way. 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.

The Houthis have discovered the beauty of greyzone aggression: you can just keep going, and the other side will struggle stop you. 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 Chinese Communist Party is eager to tout its commitment to the ‘rule of law’, by which they really mean rule by law. However, where I (where anyone who believes in a liberal democracy) must irrevocably part with Maugham, is that I prize the rule of law far above any particular political end. So when I use it to describe Jolyon Maugham KC's book, I mean for it to be a challengeable position, which ought to be playing out in the readers mind. On its own scorecard, GLP chalks up 44 per cent wins, 35 per cent losses, and 21 per cent mixed results.

He seems blind to economic and political realities: it’s not clear that he gets the economic point of the non-dom tax rules, and he seems proud of destroying Uber’s business model and of making it more difficult for ordinary Londoners to get taxis late at night. Maugham is not against wide judicial power — he wants judges to use a political end goal as justification to unilaterally abrogate Parliamentary sovereignty, yet he also thinks that judges put right-wing political ends ahead of following the law. The High Court has set a hearing date for early July, and Maugham believes the case will have “very profound impacts” if it succeeds. Victory was claimed in 2020, when the government agreed to review the policy, publishing an improved Energy National Policy Statement the following year.In the same way as human rights are enshrined by the UK’s Human Rights Act - a touchstone for judges - this could provide an overarching code against which environmental damage is assessed. 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. It lays bare some of the litigation that gets little meaningful unbiased reporting in the mainstream media; a fact that is troubling. Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful - for those who know how to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. He depicts a specific moment that surprised him about his father, an upper-class man, which was that he did not care to know what life was like in a coal-mining village.

This book confirmed my belief that the legal route is the most effective way to hold our politicians accountable.

whatever one thinks of Brexit – in 2016, I canvassed against it – this broader campaign aimed to overturn a major democratic vote. He focuses on collectivising the law for public means, as the law often mirrors the government’s political preference. The English legal system and the impression that the UK is a just land is worryingly in jeopardy from the onslaught of the rise of the right. Bringing Down Goliath principally suffers because it draws exclusively on case law and legal work within which the author has been directly involved.