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Fair Trials International

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1134586
Status
Registered
Registered
March 2, 2010
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
The European Union

Address

Address
BAKER TILLY INTERNATIONAL
2 LONDON WALL PLACE
LONDON
EC2Y 5AU

Contact

Activities

Fair Trials is a human rights organisation that works to improve respect for the fundamental human right to a fair trial. We do this by: (a) helping people to understand and exercise their rights and ensuring that human stories of injustice are heard; (b) building international networks of fair trial defenders to increase local engagement and expertise and (c) fighting the causes of unfair trials

Objects: To promote the sound administration of the law by:(a) providing or assisting in the provision of legal advice and representation to people who have been charged with or accused of criminal acts and who are in need and who allege that there has been a failure to comply with the due process of law in the country concerned; and(b) promoting and undertaking measures to monitor, reduce and eliminate failures to comply with the due process of law. Due process of law means:(a) The domestic law of the country concerned including international treaty obligations where those obligations give rise to justiciable rights recognised in that country; and (b) Recognised or customary practices followed in the country concerned.To promote education in and conduct research into the sound administration of the law making the useful results of such research available to the public.To promote human rights (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) and, in particular, the right to a fair trial, by all or any of the following means: (a) Monitoring abuses of the right to a fair trial;(b) Providing legal advice and assistance to people who have been charged with or accused of criminal acts;(c) Obtaining redress for victims of violations of the right to a fair trial;(d) Educating the public and conducting research in relation to the right to a fair trial;(e) Providing technical advice to government and others on the right to a fair trial; (f) Commenting on proposed legislation and intervening in litigation relating to fair trials;(g) Promoting public support for the right to a fair trial and raising awareness of related issues; and(h) Conducting international advocacy on fair trials.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Other Charitable Activities
What
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who
The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Country
Belgium, United States
Local Authority
Camden

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025
March 31, 2024 £908,534 £985,743 £237,215 8
March 31, 2023 £1,512,977 £1,552,143 £314,424 18
March 31, 2022 £1,522,979 £1,456,271 £353,590 20
March 31, 2021 £1,377,766 £1,329,475 £286,882 17
March 31, 2020 £1,309,126 £1,291,989 £238,592 16

Trustees

Name Appointed
Eric Arthur Kolodner (Chair) Dec. 17, 2012
Amy Jeffress March 28, 2017
Morris Lipson Jan. 22, 2019
Robert Scott Sept. 29, 2015
Stephen Mark Muers June 25, 2019