Jolyon Toby Dennis Maugham is a notable British barrister.
23 Facts About Jolyon Maugham
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Jolyon Maugham has written on Brexit and legal issues for publications such as The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the New Statesman.
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Jolyon Maugham was brought up in New Zealand by his English mother, Lynne Joyce Maugham, and his adoptive father, Alan Barker.
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Jolyon Maugham went to England in 1989 and stayed with his mother's father after finishing school.
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Jolyon Maugham graduated with a first-class LLB in European Legal Studies from Durham University in 1995.
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Jolyon Maugham spent some time in Belgium at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, studying under Walter Van Gerven, and later completed an MA at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Jolyon Maugham completed his pupillage in the chambers of Lord Irvine.
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Jolyon Maugham left Devereux Chambers at the end of 2020.
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In 2023, Jolyon Maugham published Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful, a book that examines three cases and what they can tell us about using the law for social good.
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Jolyon Maugham brought an unsuccessful case by British expatriates in Europe who objected to their loss of European Union citizenship, a case to clarify whether the Brexit process can be reversed by Parliament, and a failed legal challenge to referendum spending by Vote Leave.
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Jolyon Maugham had advised the Labour Party on tax policy under Ed Miliband.
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Jolyon Maugham was formerly on the advisory council of liberal conservative think tank Bright Blue, which advises the Conservative Party.
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The Times reported that Jolyon Maugham "flirted with Labour in the run-up to the 2015 election, harbouring a fleeting fantasy of becoming attorney-general, but decided he wasn't a party political animal".
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Jolyon Maugham is the founder and Executive Director of the Good Law Project, a not-for-profit campaign organisation that aims to use the law to protect the interests of the public.
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Jolyon Maugham has been an outspoken supporter of transgender rights and as of November 2020 is representing a transgender boy in a lawsuit against the NHS over treatment delays.
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In 2023, Jolyon Maugham was criticised by the judge in the trial of the murder of Brianna Ghey for a tweet he had made alleging transphobia by the defendants.
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In 2019, Jolyon Maugham said that two High Court judges, Mr Justice Swift and Mr Justice Supperstone, were biased in favour of the government following Mr Justice Swift's refusal of permission to Good Law Project to bring a legal challenge against Brexit.
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Jolyon Maugham was criticised by other lawyers on the social network site Twitter for the statement.
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In late 2019 Jolyon Maugham referred to the Talkradio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer having revealed his home address at a time when he was receiving death threats.
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Jolyon Maugham criticised the television programme Question Time for allowing Hartley-Brewer to appear as a panellist.
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Hartley-Brewer said Jolyon Maugham's address was already easily available online and that he had previously revealed it himself in published interviews.
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On 26 December 2019, Jolyon Maugham stated in a Twitter post that he had "killed a fox with a baseball bat".
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Jolyon Maugham said that the fox was entrapped by the netting surrounding a hen house in his garden.