Help keep free legal advice open across Greater Manchester!
Following the overwhelming response to our official launch, we are excited to now invite you to our Quiz Night Fundraiser! In collaboration with Cheetham Hill Advice Centre we are hosting…
“Access to justice is no longer a worker’s right, but a luxury.”
Laws that cost too much to enforce are phoney laws. A civil right that people can’t afford to use is no right at all. And a society that turns justice…
“Justice fault: repair needed”
Four years on from LASPO, the wheels of justice are in urgent need of repair, writes Andrew Langdon QC. No hyperbole: policy-makers are fixated on the technological revolution and the Reform…
GMLC Patron Maxine Peake drops by for our thoughts on Brexit
One of our wonderful Patrons, Maxine Peake, came by the Centre yesterday afternoon to discuss our thoughts on the effects of Brexit for her upcoming article for The Guardian. Maxine…
“Going against the grain” – Counsel Magazine, April 2017
Greater Manchester Law Centre has opened against the odds and is the third new centre to join the legal aid network post-LASPO. Barristers were integral to its success and John…
Council report lays cost of welfare cuts bare
Liverpool is now the fourth most deprived borough in England. And austerity has hit the most vulnerable people the hardest since the current government came into power in 2010. But now, a damning report from…
“Immigration Detention”
Andrew Langdon QC adds the Bar’s weight to a chorus of criticism on the intolerable state of immigration detention: no judicial scrutiny; no time limits; and scant access to justice…
“In praise of: John Nicholson”
A short but accurate piece by The Legal Action Group Magazine on our Chair, John Nicholson. “John Nicholson would probably argue he is not worthy of the (admittedly minor!) accolade of being…