[10] He also spent some time in Belgium at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, studying under Walter Van Gerven,[11] and later completed an MA at Birkbeck, University of London.

They refer to Maugham's description of "a despairing senior civil servant who asked for the 'VIP lane' to be abolished as the PPE sourcing team was 'drowning in VIP requests and "High Priority" contacts that...either do not hold the correct certification or do not pass due diligence'...[the VIP lane] was crowding out companies who had an actual track record in manufacturing and distributing medical-grade PPE."

[15] Yuan Yi Zhu gave a critical review in The Times and described it as "the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC".

[23] The Times reported that 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".

GLP alleged their appointments were the result of a "culture of cronyism and the highly secretive use of billions of pounds of public funds".

[27][needs update] In a separate case, regarding the award of PPE contracts to healthcare company Abingdon Health, Maugham apologised on behalf of GLP to the Health Secretary and the High Court for publishing a witness statement which had not been entered into evidence in the case, a breach of civil procedure rules.

[30] As of June 2021, Maugham was involved in an appeal by Mermaids against a decision to award charitable status to LGB Alliance.

The appeal was made on the basis of the notion that LGB Alliance did not meet the threshold tests to be registered as a charity.

[33] In 2023, 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.

[35] In late 2019 Maugham referred to the Talkradio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer having revealed his home address at a time when he was receiving death threats.

[36] On 26 December 2019 (Boxing Day), Maugham stated in a Twitter post that he had "killed a fox with a baseball bat".