Our Board
Our Board oversees the work we do and sets our strategic direction. Read more about our current board members below.
The Good Law Project is a not-for-profit campaign organisation that uses the law to protect the interests of the public. We fight cases that defend, define or change the law and we use litigation to engage and educate. We challenge abuses of power, exploitation, inequality, and injustice.
We are a bold, young, organisation with a ground-breaking track record. We speak the truth and act with integrity. You can learn more about our organisation and our achievements in 2020 in our annual report.
Our Board oversees the work we do and sets our strategic direction. Read more about our current board members below.
The Good Law Project is the brainchild of Jo Maugham QC, barrister and author of the popular blog waitingfortax.com. Jo is a regular contributor in the national media. He has written for or appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Times, Wall Street Journal, Mail, Mirror, Telegraph, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and many others. Jo became a Queen’s Counsel in 2015. He has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Quartz and others. He is an honorary Professor at the University of Durham. He has advised the UK government and the official Opposition on tax policy and is described by The Times as ‘one of the country’s leading barristers’. A campaigner as well as a lawyer, Jo has raised well over £1m in crowd funding for legal challenges, and through The Good Law Project has won a number of internationally renowned constitutional law cases. Follow Jo on Twitter: @JolyonMaugham.
Stewart Wood is a Labour member of the House of Lords and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he taught politics from 1995 to 2011. His academic research focused on political economy in western Europe and issues of UK public policy. From 2001 to 2007 he was a member of the Treasury’s Council of Economic Advisers, working on public policy issues for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 2007 to 2010 he worked at 10 Downing Street as a Senior Special Adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, leading on foreign policy; culture, media and sports policy; and Northern Irish affairs. From 2010-2015 he was a member of the Labour Shadow Cabinet and an adviser to Labour Leader Ed Miliband. He now serves as a Labour member of the House of Lords EU Select Committee. And since 2017 he has been Chair of the United Nations Association UK.
Rupert Evans is Chair of the Good Law Project, Managing Director of TranslateMedia and a non-executive director of Colchester Oyster Fishery. Rupert’s main job is running TranslateMedia, a language translation business which he co-founded. He is also an active non-executive, as Chair of the Good Law Project and a board member of Colchester Oyster Fishery, one of the UK’s largest and oldest oyster fisheries. Rupert is based in London but has lived and worked in Amsterdam and Hong Kong. He is a director of TranslateMedia subsidiaries in America, China and Poland and has previously directed businesses in France, Germany, Hungary and Serbia. Rupert is married and a father of three and therefore has limited spare time but is a former president of Oxford University’s juggling club.