Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination fact sheet
This fact sheet was written by legal advisers at Greater Manchester Law Centre following a meeting with Care and Support Workers Organise (CASWO). It is intended to answer care workers’…
GMLC’s housing work on the cover of Law Society Messenger
Following Kathleen Cosgrove’s win at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2021, the Manchester Law Society Messenger has run a version of our housing law and campaigns…
GMLC’s Kathy Cosgrove wins Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award
As our housing lawyer Kathy Cosgrove wins a LALY Award, we recap GMLC’s recent housing casework and campaigns. This month, we’re delighted to say that our housing solicitor Kathy Cosgrove…
The Justice Gap widens: unemployment and debt during the Covid-19 pandemic
Cover picture: bus workers on strike in April 2021 following their employer Go North West’s decision to use ‘Fire and Rehire’ tactics, laying off workers and then offering them new…
Covid-19 exposes an ongoing welfare crisis
GMLC has been campaigning against cuts to Universal Credit and in favour of an increase to all welfare benefits. We have been collecting photos of what £20 buys for our…
Online injustice during Covid-19
Guest article by author and barrister David Renton. He specialises in housing, discrimination and employment law. He acts for vulnerable tenants in disrepair possession hearings, and for employees, principally in…
Zero Covid Day of Action, 13 March 21: No More Social Murder!
On 13 March 2021, a few of us from the GMLC team took part in Zero Covid campaign’s Day of Action for a Zero Covid strategy. GMLC is affiliated to…
Resisting Unsafe Work: Zero Covid days of action
Zero Covid campaign, to which GMLC recently affiliated, has been working hard to highlight breaches in health and safety and employment law at work during the pandemic. To eliminate the…
‘Breathing space’ or thin air? The Debt Respite Scheme is no solution to spiralling rental debts
On 31 March 2021, the current eviction ‘ban’ ends and the extended warning of eviction for tenants of longer notice periods falls away. In place of these safety nets, the…
I Thought They Said ‘No Covid Evictions’?
This is a guest article written by Housing Law Practitioner and GMLC Member Nick Donlon. The government announced on 8 January an extension of the stay on enforcement of evictions…