The GMLC grew out of a protest against cuts to services offering free legal advice and representation. In recent years the right to legal aid has been subject to permanent assault by successive governments. As a result people have been left without advice and support when they need it most, putting them at the risk of poverty, homelessness and unemployment. On this page you can find out all the latest news from the struggle to restore legal aid.
In this election we are asking what commitments to Free Access to Justice candidates in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester – Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan – are willing to…
On Friday afternoon we had the pleasure of welcoming Andy Burnham MP to the Greater Manchester Law Centre. Andy has long expressed his support for our campaign and has often…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Greater Manchester Law Centre has opened against the odds and is the third new centre to join the legal aid network post-LASPO. Barristers were integral to its success and John…
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.…
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 aid has been cut and cut…
Our patron, Lord Willy Bach, recently published an interim report on the current state of access to justice and some policy recommendations for the future.