Monday 17th June from 4pm
Join us on the 10km walk on 17th June to raise funds for Medical Justice to help immigration detainees get much-needed medical evidence and support to access free legal advice. Continue reading “Medical Justice on the London Legal Walk”
21st March 2019
Mr A and Mr AT were both removed from the UK. The Home Office was ordered to bring them back. The BBC2 Victoria Derbyshire programme interviewed them both yesterday, together with Theresa Schleicher of Medical Justice. Watch the interview here which starts at It starts at 46 mins 41 secs.
Continue reading “Removal windows case : BBC2 Victoria Derbyshire programme interviews two men removed from the UK”
14th March 2019 Medical Justice press statement for immediate release
High Court suspends unscrupulous policy of removing unwanted migrants from the UK without warning
The Home Office removals policy enabling it to refuse a migrant’s case and forcibly remove them from the UK, within hours and in many cases without access to legal representation, was suspended by a High Court judge today, potentially tearing the heart out of the government’s “hostile environment” strategy against migrants.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Wednesday 6 March
Joint press release with Freedom From Torture and the Helen Bamber Foundation
In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has ruled that the lower courts were wrong to override the conclusions of a medical expert when considering forensic evidence of torture in an asylum claim.
Medical Justice statement regarding criminal charges being dropped regarding the death of Prince Fosu at Harmondsworth IRC in 2012.
Medical Justice submits evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry immigration detention.
The full submission can be found here.
Medical Justice submits evidence to the second Shaw review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable people.
Continue reading “Medical Justice evidence to the second Shaw review”
New briefing “Putting Adults at Risk” published. This publication seeks to explain the history behind the Adults at Risk policy, to set out in simple terms how the policy is intended to work and, lastly, to highlight some of the main issues with the policy and explain why it fails to protect vulnerable people from inappropriate detention.
Press release : HMIP report on Harmondsworth IRC – detention of torture. In response to the HMIP report published 13/03/18
Continue reading “Press release : HMIP report on Harmondsworth IRC – detention of torture”
“Since 2005 Medical Justice has been alerting the Home Office, and now more recently NHS England, about repeated systemic failures in immigration detention and warned that these will lead to further deaths unless they are addressed. Continue reading “Death at Morton Hall IRC – 19th Nov 2017”