Jolyon Maugham is a master of contradictions.

He appears quintessentially British yet his childhood was spent between the New Zealand countryside and Fijian beaches. A qualified barrister, he spends his working life ensconced in the rarefied world of British chambers yet he has known homelessness and spent his early adulthood “in survival mode”. He lobbies to end tax avoidance schemes, but makes his living defending those accused of not paying their dues.