Justice Together
“Racism and extremism in migration policy has a huge effect on clients, staff within organisations and people with lived experience of the immigration system who work in the sector.”
— Grant partner, 2024
Justice Together is a collaboration of 15 funders, hosted by LEF, which aims to ensure that people who use the immigration system can access justice fairly and equally without being harmed.
As well as offering funding, we are building a community of people and organisations with diverse backgrounds, strengths, and experiences to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system.
Justice Together is rooted in the belief that a better coordinated and more strategic approach that is driven by lived experience will help address systemic challenges.
Through grant making and collaboration, we aim to connect the knowledge from lived experience, frontline advice and influencing strategies to create lasting change.
We have held funding rounds in each region and nation across the UK and we are not currently running open funding rounds. We continue to provide learning and networking support to our grant partners and ensuring that what we have learned is shared with our grant partners, funder partners and the wider sector.
Having set out to operate for a decade, we are exploring longer-term commitment to the networks, partnerships and staffing that Justice Together has enabled to ensure a legacy after it ends.
Case study: Public Law Project and partners unite to stop Rwanda removals
Justice Together funding freed up the capacity of a Public Law Project solicitor to support the coordination of several key organisations to develop a litigation and policy strategy in response to the Rwanda removals.
Additional funding enabled the group to pay for Counsel’s Opinion in relation to the Rwanda removals. For the first six months of 2024, they and others worked tirelessly to prepare cases for litigation against removals to Rwanda.
This coordination between organisations and litigation work was crucial in delaying the implementation of Rwandan removals under the Conservative government and contributed to the Labour government’s decision to abandon the policy.