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GMLC Campaign Volunteer Neryssa Martins Luz summarises the Museum of Homelessness’ new 2026 report into Severe Weather homelessness provision (SWEP). The full report is available here. The Museum of Homelessness…
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) have accused Rockstar, the tech company currently working on Grand Theft Auto 6, of ‘union busting’ in sacking 31 of their employees.…
GMLC is delighted to announce that we have been selected as the Manchester Law Society President’s Charity of the Year 2026. The group’s publication, the Manchester Messenger, has a feature…
In October 2025, the government finally passed the long-awaited Renters Rights Act, which will significantly reform the housing sector – particularly the private rented sector. The changes it makes will…
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…
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…
Following our successful Annual General Meeting in November at Friends Meeting House in Manchester, GMLC’s annual report is now available online to read. Click here to read the 2024 annual…
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…