The Daily Mail v The Annoyingest Barister:
Left-wing campaign group Good Law Project has been accused of ‘hypocrisy’ after becoming an offshore trust in Jersey.
Director Jolyon Maugham KC has restructured the non-profit organisation so it is owned by a ‘purpose trust’ on the island. But legal experts say the move is ‘enormously hypocritical’ because becoming a trust will ‘give it the benefits’ of being set up like a charity without having oversight from regulators.
Well Joly doesn’t need oversight, because he is perfected.
Veteran barrister Barbara Rich said the restructuring meant that GLP would operate ‘without the burden of charity registration’.
She added: ‘[This] is not just because in England that imposes restrictions on political activity but because my impression is that Jolyon Maugham is pretty antagonistic towards the Charity Commission generally and would prefer to have a free hand [rather] than be subject to any regulator at all. It’s enormously hypocritical.’
Well when Jolyon does a thing he does it big.
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