His book, due out on Thursday (April 27), discusses these cases and alleged "failings" in the UK’s judicial system. This blindness to ultimate consequences is also evident in his account of my specialist subject: the Brexit saga.

The GLP depends on public outrage to fund its litigation, and few environmental causes have appalled the British public like the pollution of waterways with sewage. From the introductory quote of “justice is open to all – like the Ritz Hotel” to the conclusion quote of “The world is in a bad state, but everything will become worse unless each of us does his best. This is how Jolyon Maugham KC describes it in his new book Bringing Down Goliath, which charts the origins and ongoing battles of the Good Law Project (GLP). As to a lack of facts, she detailed very well the actions she took and on what basis and laws she took those actions, even relating what rules and laws the attorneys and judges had broken.He mentioned that the reader’s problem pertained to people in communities that are often deprived, which he mentioned earlier on that he fails to connect with anymore because of his place of privilege. The second edition flowed much better and in fact, even though I had read the first edition, I could not put the second edition down until I had finished. The Houthis have discovered the beauty of greyzone aggression: you can just keep going, and the other side will struggle stop you. An upstream polluter can pay off someone with an economic interest downstream, but this exchange does nothing to preserve the river.

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. We both know I have written to many GC feminists seeking a private discussion of trans issues and to de-escalate the ‘debate’. At times, he reveres liberal institutions, asserting he is ‘very proud to be a barrister’, but cites Judith Shklar’s dismissal of the rule of law as ‘just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians’. They claim that the government’s ‘Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan’ is unlawful as it gives water company bosses until 2050 to stop the mass discharges of sewage. Yuan Yi Zhu did in his blistering review of the book for the Times on Saturday and the backlash was swift.The problem, however, is that Maugham doesn’t realise that the means of the rule of law are an end in themselves. Personally, I do, and have admired Jolyon Maugham since hearing him speak in person during the Remain campaign.