T.R.O.Y. wrote:Of all the crowd funding I wonder why they’ve chosen to discredit Maugham.
I very strongly suspect it is simply down to this line in the article...
"...particularly concerned about the increasing practice of crowdfunding applications for judicial review, forcing the Government to 'waste time and resourcess fending off unmeritorious but popular claims'."
I've said all along that he is a vexatious litigant, having had the not so pleasurable experience of having to deal with one once in more professional career.
Vexatious litigants are people who persistently take legal action against employers and other businesses, regardless of the merits of the claims, either in the hope of persuading the business of making a settlement to get rid of the inconvenience of the claim, or because they are on a mission to cause as much harm to the business [substitute Tory government instead - Sluffy] as they can. The time and expense involved in dealing with a vexatious litigant is a harrowing prospect for any employer.
https://www.ashfords.co.uk/news-and-media/general/vexatious-litigants-and-how-to-stop-them
You're apparently are keeping score of all the outcomes of all the 27 cases has brought against the government in the last four years, so can you tell me how many has he actually won and more specifically what if any actual benefit have we seen resulting from it?
I suspect little if any.
The only one I'm aware of is the government not reporting the PPE contract awards within 28 days and the government itself acknowledged it had failed before even going to court!
The current Judicial Review awaiting the judgement - isn't anything to do with sleaze and cronyism, it is about did the civil servants act in strict accordance with the legislation - but you would never know that if you simply followed Maugham/GLP on social media who paints it all about cronyism and sleaze - do they not?
Did you even know that the Judicial Review awaiting judgement was based around three specific company's awarded PPE contracts, maybe you did, but did you know at the JR GLP gave no evidence against one company, they in effect withdrew their action against it (Clandeboye Agencies Ltd).
They didn't seem to let anyone know that...
...I wonder why???
Surely the action wasn't without merit was it, I mean after all they had said about it being awarded due to cronyism and sleaze...
Maugham has set himself up a system whereby he can take 'free' shots at the government without spending a penny of his own money (all of it coming from mugs contributing via crowd funding who believe what Maugham feeds them on social media) and with the sole aim of bringing discredit to the government with no actual proof - and if he loses, people will simply believe it to be a 'fix' and the judiciary are as corrupt as they believe the government to be!
This is really bad on many levels not least that people start to believe the system we are governed by is corrupt and not to be trusted and that it may ultimate lead to less access for genuine and worthy cases seeking judicial review for the purpose that it is intended for namely the correct application of legislation.
I know I've been ploughing a lone furrow on here in the face of Tory government haters who also believe everything they read on social media but Maugham has simply hijacked the Judicial Review system (based on crowd funding) to progress his personal agenda against the government, at no cost to himself.
Quite brilliant of him in a sense but also massively destructive longer term if people begin to no longer trust the government or judiciary any more.
Clearly measures will now be put in place to stop that abuse of the system and if I may say so - rightly too.