With barrister Sarah Phillimore having this week served her defamation claim on noted turd polisher Jolyon Maugham KC, in respect of allegations set out in an article published by the Good Law Project in August last year, and in social media posts by Maugham, now seems a good time to update my Table of Failure and Futility (ToFF).

[Shurely ‘table of legal victories and exercise of sage judgment’? Ed]

Maugham and the GLP have now crowdfunded an impressive total of £3,389,487 since 1 January 2021. But, somewhat less impressively, all that they have achieved with this moolah (to date) is:

• two now irrelevant court wins on Net Zero, in 2022 and early 2024, that did not lead to any significant change in the then Tory government’s policies before the change of government in July 2024;
• the overturning of a Shrewsbury Town Council planning decision, in 2023;
• the funding of one of law firm Bindmans’ defamation cases, in 2023; and
• a £25K settlement with a US law firm, in a trivial case about transgenderism, in 2025.

Of that £3.4 million, a stonking £722,533 has been crowdfunded from the so-called ‘trans community’ and its allies to support the GLP’s ongoing efforts to undo the Supreme Court’s momentous April 2025 ruling in For Women Scotland. But all that they have achieved (so far) is a proper drubbing in the High Court in February, and a £300,000 bill from the EHRC for legal costs. Well, if the Supreme Court says it is the law, it is the law.

While the GLP say that Maugham will “vigorously defend Ms Phillimore’s claim”, at the time of writing there is no sign of any associated crowdfunder. Maybe, on this occasion, the opinionated Maugham will be putting his own money where his mouth is. I guess there’s a first time for everything.

Whatever, you can donate to Sarah Phillimore’s crowdfunder here.