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Jolyon 'Jo' Maugham QC (born July 1971), is a British barrister, currently practicing in tax law at Deveraux Chambers. He is the founder and director of the Good Law Project, through which he has played a key role in bringing to court a number of legal challenges to the Brexit process. These cases include defending the rights of British expats in Europe, a case to clarify whether the Brexit process can be reversed by Parliament, and a legal challenge to referendum spending by Vote Leave. He has written extensively on Brexit and legal issues for many publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the New Statesman.

He graduated with an LLB in European Legal Studies from Durham and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1997, and an MA from Birkbeck. He became a QC in 2015. He is the son of David Benedictus, although they did not meet until Maugham was 17, and he was brought up by his mother in New Zealand.