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Thank you for supporting our team in fundraising for Medical Justice as part of the 20th anniversary of the London Legal Walk. 

We will be walking 10km on Tuesday 18th June with the Lady Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers in aid of free legal advice and support for everything from Law Centres and Citizens Advice services to refugee specialist support services. We are walking to raise funds for Medical Justice.

Medical Justice works to uphold the health and associated legal rights of people in immigration detention, and provides medical evidence so the devastating health harms of detention are understood and acted on.

We are the only charity in the UK to send independent volunteer clinicians to visit people held in Immigration Removal Centres across the UK and document their scars of torture and serious medical conditions. 

Evidence from our casework is the platform for our research into systemic failures in healthcare provision, the harm caused by these shortcomings, as well as the toxic effect of immigration detention itself on the health of people in detention. We use our research, policy work, strategic litigation and parliamentary work to secure lasting change.

Your support is needed more than ever. Please sponsor our walkers as generously as you are able. 

£50 could cover the train fare for a volunteer clinician to visit a person in detention to carry out a medical assessment. 

Our team is: Ariel, Liz, Idel, Rachel, Lisa, Theresa, Sara, Aideen, Thelma (with more to follow)

Many thanks for your support.