We at the GMLC are a campaigning organisation. We are actively fighting Government cuts to legal aid and for the restoration of funding and support for all who need legal advice and representation. We are also fighting to change Government welfare reform policy. The vulnerable in our community face real hardship, and we are using our experience enact real change through strategic litigation. On this page you can find out all about our campaigning activities.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recently, the human rights organisation Liberty took a case against the Home Office to challenge the last government’s changes to protest law to define ‘serious disruption’ as any disruption which…