LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN LIBYA

Registered charity 1152068 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LFJL

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY DEFENDING JUSTICE AND PROMOTING THE RULE OF LAW) IN LIBYA (AND, TO THE EXTENT CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARITYS PRIMARY OBJECTS, IN OTHER COUNTRIES) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITYS TRUSTEES THINK FIT

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £299,686 were held at year-end, which is below the charity's adopted target of £335,000. The trustees note that significant funding reductions in 2025 have necessitated the utilization of these reserves and staff reductions to maintain activities.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07741132

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lawyers for Justice in Libya (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Balfour — Chairperson (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• ABDULHADI, Fayruz — director, appointed 03/05/2023on trustee list
• GHEBLAWI, Ghazi — director, appointed 25/01/2023on trustee list
• MHANNI, Mervet — director, appointed 20/06/2017on trustee list
• OETTE, Lutz Dieter, Dr — director, appointed 20/06/2017on trustee list
• ELHADRI, Mariam — director, appointed 09/05/2014on trustee list
• BALFOUR, Andrew Gordon — director, appointed 27/04/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW BALFOURchair
• Dr Ghazi Gheblawi
• Dr Lutz Oette
• Mariam Elhadri
• Mervet Mhanni

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

Operates in: Camden · Egypt · Islington · Libya · Tunisia

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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