We at the GMLC are a campaigning organisation. We are actively fighting Government cuts to legal aid and for the restoration of funding and support for all who need legal advice and representation. We are also fighting to change Government welfare reform policy. The vulnerable in our community face real hardship, and we are using our experience enact real change through strategic litigation. On this page you can find out all about our campaigning activities.
GMLC campaign volunteer Ella O’Sullivan reviews journalist John Pring’s new book The Department: How A Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence (2024). Content Warning: mentions of mental…
Today, GMLC releases our new research report, ‘Scrap the cap: the benefit cap in 2024 and why it needs to go‘. Following the release of the new benefit cap statistics…
GMLC campaign volunteer lead Avaia Nightingale Williams summarises the findings of the Bar Council’s 2024 report on public funding of the justice system, ‘Justice Short-Changed‘. The Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders…
This month, GMLC has sent letters to Greater Manchester MPs inviting them to consider working with us on improving policy and practice for their constituents facing legal issues. We reprint…
Recently, the human rights organisation Liberty took a case against the Home Office to challenge the last government’s changes to protest law to define ‘serious disruption’ as any disruption which…
GMLC employment campaign volunteer lead Avaia Nightingale Williams summarises the recent report by Unite the Union on profiteering. What is profiteering? Profiteering occurs when companies take advantage of crises or…
GMLC Campaign Volunteer Lead Eve McLaughlin summarises the May 2024 report released by the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, which outlines the current government approach to…
The Election Charter below is Greater Manchester Law Centre’s perspective on what policy-makers could do in the next government to improve the lives of low-income residents of Greater Manchester. Greater…
After attending the launch of a new report by Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) and Boaz Trust, GMLC campaign volunteer Deborah Okyere summarises its findings and the insights the…
As Serious Disruption Prevention Orders come into force in Britain, GMLC campaign volunteer lead Jacob Quested Khan updates us on the Act as it now stands, and the risk the…