Salford May Day 2017– Unity in the Community
May Day is a day where Communities come together to celebrate their diversity all around the world. In Salford, the role for organising May Day has been traditionally done by…
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.
Westminster General Election announced – what will the parties say about legal aid?
In the last few years, people have faced greater and greater hardship as a result of cuts in benefits, rising homelessness, uncertainties at work and escalating racism. Meanwhile legal aid,…
Women’s Legal Rights – worth fighting for then, worth fighting for now
Charlotte Hughes paid a moving tribute to Caroline Sheridan, English social reformer and author, in a feature article in The People’s Daily Morning Star on the 12th April. Caroline Sheridan’s…
“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…
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…
PCS to launch an alternative vision for the justice system
Everyone with an interest in promoting access to justice should come along to the launch of a new report commissioned by PCS, at the House of Commons, on 22 February.…
Excellent speech by Ken Loach at the film awards
The Baftas went according to plan, if not exactly according to type, and the pundits’ predictions were largely correct, although it is sad that Moonlight did not get the silverware that it deserved. There…
“‘We will have access to justice’: Greater Manchester Law Centre opens”
Originally published on Legal Voice: The Greater Manchester Law Centre opened its doors to the public this weekend becoming the third new centre to join the network post-LASPO. ‘Legal…