The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Global Legal Action Network (Glan)

Registered charity 1167733 CIO Registered since 2016

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Ireland

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Other Charitable Purposes 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 6Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 3Professional services 3Health and social care 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.1 in 2021

16 from 5 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.glanlaw.org
Emailinfo@glanlaw.org
Phone07521203427
AddressC/O Garden Court Chambers, 9 Carmelite Street, London, EC4Y 0DR

Finances

£1,749,238 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£549,112£321,824
2022£995,881£1,051,751
2023£1,374,066£833,168
2024£1,083,692£1,264,158
2025£1,749,238£1,393,997

What it does

What

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or DiversityOther Charitable Purposes

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) AND SUBSEQUENT CONVENTIONS, DECLARATIONS AND REGIONAL CODES OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH INCORPORATE THE RIGHTS CONTAINED IN THE UDHR AND THOSE SUBSEQUENT CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS, AS WELL AS THROUGH CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:1) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW THROUGH LITIGATION;2) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS; 3) MONITORING AND REPORTING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;4) COMMISSIONING RESEARCH INTO THE MAINTENANCE AND OBSERVATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;5) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS THROUGH PRIMARY AND/OR SECONDARY LEGISLATION;6) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STANDARDS AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW THROUGH LITIGATION, ADVOCACY, TRAINING AND INFORMATION SHARING AS REGARDS HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS;7) COMMENTING ON THE COMPLIANCE OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS;8) RAISING AWARENESS AMONG LAWYERS, MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY AS WELL AS CIVIL SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS AND OF THEIR ENFORCEMENT THROUGH DOMESTIC LAW AND; 9) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY REGARDING THE EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH THE USE OF DOMESTIC LAW.

Governing document: CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED ONAMENDED TO CIO FOUNDATION 12 JUL 2023

Trustees (7)

7trustees
54median age
0aged 70+

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