This made for a fine laugh this morning.
Why it’s funny is because Timothy Brennan is head of Devereux Chambers, which Foxy Jolyon left as of midnight yesterday.
Burn ALL the bridges down.
This made for a fine laugh this morning.
Why it’s funny is because Timothy Brennan is head of Devereux Chambers, which Foxy Jolyon left as of midnight yesterday.
Burn ALL the bridges down.
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8 responses to “Ssssshhhhh”
I think I am missing alot of context.
Sorry. I’ve made fun of Jolyon several times. He’s a fanatical enforcer of trans ideology.
I meant I do not know what he quit or what it means. I know you have posted about him before did he get in trouble?
Well, JolyM’s getting quite the dragging in that thread. Clearly a lot of people find him misguided and tiresome at best.
Sentient Spanner, Maugham is a Q.C. (barrister), who was until last night employed at Devereux Chambers, one of the top teams of civil and commercial Q.C.s in England.
I did say rather recently that it may not be a good idea for a barrister to openly criticise and antagonise the judges of the High Court (and boy, was he ever arrogant about it). I would assume that the head of Devereux Chambers, Timothy Brennan, had no desire to have the reputation of the chambers stained by association with Maugham so told him to either rein it in or leave.
Maugham announced back in November that he would be leaving his “lucrative law tax practice” and that from the end of this year he would work at the Good Law Project full time, drawing a salary that will be “about one-twentieth” of his recent take-home from his chambers. There was nothing in the Guardian report to suggest it was anything other than an amicable separation, though obviously it’s turned sour now. The article is here to save readers from Googling. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/22/jolyon-maugham-qc-covid-cronyism-good-law-project
What I don’t know is whether Maugham will retain his status as QC now that he has decided to follow a new career path. But I can’t imagine Her Majesty will wish to engage his services in the foreseeable future.
I’m slightly in awe of the initials QC. I think this must be a really clever person with a lot of knowledge in their own area, and a good grasp of language and logic. And then Jolyon Maugham comes along and kills my regard (along with that fox).
Minor nit-pick: most barristers are not employees and for the sort of work Maugham was engaged in I believe they are required not to be employees or partners. The relationship to a chambers is quite different to a typical employer/employee one.
cf. wikipedia
(also, most barristers are not QCs)