MEDICAL JUSTICE NETWORK LIMITED

Registered charity 1132072 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEDICAL JUSTICE

Assist immigration detainees to get independent medical advice and legal advice, challenge instances of inadequate healthcare provision, monitor how the Home Office and its contractors implement policy and seek improvements to policies.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES BY PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND FOREIGN NATIONALS HELD IN IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES AND WHO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS (ASYLUM SEEKERS) THROUGH:(I) REVIEWING, MONITORING, VISITING, CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND FACILITATING ASYLUM SEEKERS' ACCESS TO MEDICAL, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES FROM APPROPRIATELY TRAINED PROFESSIONALS;(II) SUPPORTING AND COMPILING MEDICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE RELEASE FROM DETENTION IN IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES OF VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO HAVE SUFFERED TORTURE, RAPE, INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE AND/OR VIOLENCE, TRAUMATIC INCARCERATION OR OTHER ABUSE.(B) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE BY PROVIDING THEM WITH AND FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION).(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) FOR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ASYLUM SEEKERS BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(I) MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;(II) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;(III) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;(IV) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(V) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(VI) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;(VII) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS;(VIII) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; AND(IX) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS.(D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE POSITION AND TREATMENT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ENCOURAGING DIALOGUE, CONSULTATION AND NEGOTIATION. (E) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £472,866, representing 7.6 months of operating costs, which falls within the charity's stated policy target of 5-9 months. However, the trustees report a difficult financial outlook, forecasting a funding shortfall of between £144,000 and £346,000 in the year ending January 2027 due to the departure of major funders.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06073571

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Medical Justice (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BALACHANDRAN, Pranavan — director, appointed 12/06/2024on trustee list
• SHEA, Anna — director, appointed 30/05/2024on trustee list
• COHEN, Juliet, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• RICCA, Sarah Caroline — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• LU, Xiao — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• KATONA, Cornelius Louis Emanuel, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• HAYWOOD, Philip — director, appointed 03/11/2021not on trustee list
• TALBOT, Ruth Mary — director, appointed 14/10/2021on trustee list
• BANDA, Bridget — director, appointed 28/09/2020on trustee list
• BURKE, Linda Mary — director, appointed 12/05/2020on trustee list
• SIVANATHAN, Janahan — director, appointed 10/02/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUTH MARY TALBOTchair
• Anna Shea
• Bridget Banda
• Cornelius Katona
• Janahan Sivanathan
• Juliet Cohen
• Linda Mary Burke
• Phil Haywood
• Pranavan Balachandran
• Sarah Ricca
• Xiao Lu

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERVENE PROJECT.

• INTERVENE PROJECT income £79k
• Refugee and Migrant Justice income £1.9m
• JUSTICE FIRST LIMITED income £162k
• INTERMEDIARIES FOR JUSTICE income £27k
• MIGRANT ACTION income £338k
• GREATER MANCHESTER IMMIGRATION AID UNIT income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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