Ten years of GMLC: read our 2024-2025 annual report now
GMLC’s annual report for this year is now available to read. Highlights are provided below, but you can click here to read the full report.
GMLC student volunteer wins Pro Bono award!
GMLC’s student volunteer Zayd Tariq won this year’s award at Greater Manchester Pro Bono Awards for Best Student Contribution for his work on our Legal Advocacy Student Project (LASP). This…
Success in Lower Falinge: GMLC helps tenants challenge the demolition of their homes
Rochdale Council has refused a demolition application by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing following a successful Judicial Review by tenants on the Lower Falinge estate. In recent years, the estates of Lower…
Manchester City Council spends most on landlord incentives of any local authority in the country – what does this mean?
GMLC comments on the widely reported news that Manchester City Council spend more than any other local authority on ‘incentive’ payments to landlords, explaining the context and giving a case…
On the disability benefit cuts (the ‘Universal Credit Bill’)
GMLC campaign volunteer Elliot Ross writes on the Universal Credit Bill currently making its way through Parliament, following a dramatic day in Parliament in June 2025 where significant concessions were…
Police are using artificial face recognition technology at protests – but is it lawful?
GMLC campaign volunteer Mariam Hussain reflects on her research into the use of face recognition technologies at protests, arguing that we need legislation to clarify the legality of its use…
Stand firm against the disability benefit cuts
This week, the government will vote on the controversial new reforms to the welfare system proposed by ministers in March this year. These reforms as they were first tabled included…
GMLC joins trade unions in saying no to the proscription of Palestine Action
Today, the government intends to lay a draft order in Parliament that would, if finalised, proscribe Palestine Action, an activist group that uses direct action to interfere wit the supply…
On the eviction of the St Peter’s Square homeless camp
Some may have seen in the news this week that on Tuesday 11 February 2025, His Honour Judge Bird ruled that the homeless camp in St Peter’s Square can be…
Review of John Pring’s new book on the DWP
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…