In this article, GMLC employment campaign volunteer lead Avaia Nightingale Williams considers the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill and analyses the consequences of inadequate legislation, as well as suggesting how the law could…
Below is the text of an open letter written by Shelter and GMLC, signed by a range of housing and legal organisations across the Greater Manchester region. This was sent…
In December 2022, Greater Manchester Law Centre, in association with the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA), conducted a survey into recent delays in processing Pension Credit claims. Here,…
On 15 December 2022, the High Court sitting in Manchester heard a legal challenge to the 2022 rate of weekly asylum support payments made to asylum seekers under s95 Immigration…
The High Court has today ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the…
GMLC campaign volunteer Avaia Nightingale Williams summarises the findings of the Bar Council’s report on the state of justice following 10 years of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of…
This month, Greater Manchester Law Centre’s proposed amendment to the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill in Parliament has been raised in the House of Commons and debated in the committees. The…
From 6 – 8pm on 8 December 2022, GMLC and the University of Manchester Pro Bono Society will be holding a careers event in the Williamson Law Common Room. Anyone…
GMLC’s Campaigns Officer Kate Bradley summarises GMLC’s 2022 AGM. This year’s GMLC AGM on Tuesday 22 November 2022 saw over 50 attendees join us to talk about the Law Centre’s…
GMLC campaign volunteer Jake Marshall summarises the findings of an October 2022 Smith Institute report on homelessness and temporary accommodation, giving particular attention to Greater Manchester. Written at a…