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…
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 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…
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…
GMLC employment campaign volunteer lead Avaia Nightingale Williams summarises the recent report by Unite the Union on profiteering. What is profiteering? Profiteering occurs when companies take advantage of crises or…
The Election Charter below is Greater Manchester Law Centre’s perspective on what policy-makers could do in the next government to improve the lives of low-income residents of Greater Manchester. Greater…