Interim report of Bach Commission on Access to Justice published
Our patron, Lord Willy Bach, recently published an interim report on the current state of access to justice and some policy recommendations for the future.
Problems filling in ESA50 forms? We can help
Every Monday, we provide appointments to assist you on filling in ESA50 forms. An ESA50 form is a document that lets the DWP know about how your illness or disability affects your ability to work and why Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is the right benefit for you.
We are Now Officially a Law Centre
Last week in Belfast, members of the Law Centres Network voted to officially recognise the Greater Manchester Law Centre. This is fantastic news and credit is due to all those that have helped with the accelerated development of a community law centre. With funding secured for a supervising solicitor for the next 3 years, a…
Going Against the Grain: a new law centre in Greater Manchester
Originally posted in Socialist Lawyer (the Magazine of the Haldane Society)
North West Probation & CAFCASS affiliate with law centre
The North West Probabtion & CAFCASS Unison branch recently agreed to affiliate with the Greater Manchester Law Centre. Their branch secretary, Kev Allsop said that ‘we are pleased to support our comrades at GM law whilst condemning the successive Tory governments that have seen an end to six law centres in Greater Manchester alone and…
The newly opened Greater Manchester Law Centre offers free, independent legal advice and representation
159 Princess Road, Manchester, M14 4RE In the face of legal aid and local authority cuts, and law centre closures, Greater Manchester Law Centre (GMLC), a community organisation offering free, independent legal advice and representation, has opened its doors. With the collective support of volunteers, lawyers, judges, trade unions, 3rd sector groups and the community, and…
Are you a Solicitor with a commitment to access to justice?
SUPERVISING SOLICITOR People are facing greater and greater hardship as a result of cuts in benefits, homelessness, uncertainty at work, and escalating racism. Legal aid – which is an essential part of the welfare state – has been cut again and again. The people most in need across the ten districts of Greater Manchester are…
Greater Manchester Law Centre – going against the grain
Dear Editor People are facing greater and greater hardship as a result of cuts in benefits, homelessness, uncertainty at work, and escalating racism. “I Daniel Blake” paints this picture of Britain today utterly clearly. Meanwhile legal aid – an essential part of the welfare state – has been cut again and again. People most in…
The beginning of the end for appeal hearings?
By Giles Elliott (orignally posted here) Did you know the government is currently consulting on wide-ranging proposals to reform the UK’s justice system? If not, you could easily be forgiven: the consultation began just a month ago, on 15th September without much of a blaze of publicity. And it closes in not much more than a…