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Medical Justice Basics Medics’ Training Day – 1st October 2016
10.30am to 5.30pm – Saturday 1st October 2016
Venue : TBA (Central London)
Our training is for medics who are interested in volunteering for Medical Justice as medico-legal report writers, visiting detainees in detention centres, assessing their health and documenting evidence of torture or trauma and other health issues.
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Medical Justice Annual Report 2015-16 published
Medical Justice published its 2015-16 Annual Report released at our AGM on 20th July 2016.
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Medical Justice AGM 2016 & launch of report on ‘Death in Immigration Detention’
Join us on
Wednesday 20th July
for an evening of discussion with:
Kris Harris – Medical Justice, author of the report
Jesse Nicholls – Doughty Street Chambers
Ms C- ex detainee
6pm – AGM (members only)
6.30pm report launch (all welcome)
@ Doughty Street Chambers, 53-54 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LS
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Supreme Court Gives Guidance on Detention of People with Serious Mental Health Problems
The Supreme Court has today given important guidance on the detention of people with serious mental health problems.
Help us End the Detention of Pregnant Women!
Two weeks ago the House of Lords voted to ban the detention of pregnant women. On Monday the amendments will be considered by the House of Commons.
The Royal College of Midwives and Medical Justice have issued a joint statement calling for an absolute ban on detaining pregnant women.
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Join Medical Justice as a Trustee?
Medical Justice is looking for people with managerial and financial experience to join the management committee.
Handcuffing and Privacy
Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons has reported:
“Although we found a small number of exceptions, most detainees were handcuffed on external appointments, even though they all underwent individual risk assessments. This included some detainees assessed as low risk.
Cancelled Hospital Appointments
RT missed three external cardiologist appointments to investigate uncontrolled hypertension at different IRCs over a four-month period. Following a complaint, UKBA accepted that RT should have been put on “medical hold” and not transferred from IRC to IRC.
Mental Health Services
A legal judgement in 2014 found that S had been unlawfully detained for 3 months because of his severe mental illness. The treatment and care he received was so inadequate that it amounted to significant breach of articles 3 [inhuman and degrading treatment] of the Human Rights Act.