COVID-19: Making Homelessness Applications
We understand that some local authorities across Greater Manchester have or will be closing their face to face homelessness assessment services. This doesn’t mean that people who are homeless or…
Stop Evictions Now!
We have written to Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester Mayor and all local authorities and major housing associations across the region demanding that they take the lead and commit to…
Vicious new powers attack the homeless
A full version of this article by Ruth Hunt appeared in the Morning Star. This extract is re-posted here with permission. Ruth F Hunt is a freelance journalist and an…
“How the DWP is silencing dissent”
This article by Ruth Hunt appeared in the Morning Star and is re-posted here with permission. Ruth F Hunt is a freelance journalist and an author. With austerity…
Social Security not Sanctions: Our latest Law Society Messenger Column
We have a monthly column in the Law Society Messenger. You can see the full June edition here. This month, GMLC volunteer Edmund Potts analyses the recent announcement that the…
GMLC shortlisted for the Charity Awards 2019
We are going against the grain, having started our campaign in the face of legal aid cuts, with no funding and no premises. We now punch above our weight and…
Our case in Big Issue North: “DIY could be undone”
By Ciara Leeming This piece originally featured in Big Issue North magazine and is re-posted here with permission A group of homeless people have found themselves a roof over…
Our cover story in the Law Society Messenger, LASPO Review: Deliberate Amnesia
We have a monthly column in the Law Society Messenger. This month, we were delighted to be asked to produce the cover story on the important topic of the LASPO review.…
Thursday 11th April: Access to Justice: Why we need Law Centres
With: Richard Burgon MP, Shadow Justice Secretary and GMLC Patrons Maxine Peake and Robert Lizar Join us for the Greater Manchester Law Centre manifesto launch 11th April 2019, 6-8pm, Thompsons Solicitors,…
GMLC represents homeless people fighting eviction from hostel by NHS
See coverage in the Manchester Evening News here. And in the Mirror here. A group of homeless people who established a hostel in a vacant doctors’ surgery are facing possession…