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25 November 2024

Save South Manchester Law Centre – lobby of full Manchester City Council meeting

Article published: Sunday, December 5th 2010

Supporters of South Manchester Law Centre are to hold a protest outside the full Manchester City Council meeting this coming Wednesday 8 December, Albert Square at 9am as part of the campaign to save the law centre and restore its funding.

South Manchester Law Centre has been providing free advice and representation in court to members of the community for the last 35 years. Its expertise has been in the areas of Housing, Welfare Benefits, Employment, Women’s Rights and Immigration and Asylum Law.

Following Council and the Legal Services Commission decisions, the Law Centre is now only able to provide free advice and representation in Women’s Rights and Immigration and Asylum Law.

Despite victory in the first stage of the Judicial Review against the LSC in early November, nothing is yet resolved: the law centre’s ability to provide these services remains under serious threat until funding is restored by both the Council and LSC.  It is still at risk of closure.

As the fight continues, supporters are the law centre are calling on Manchester residents to demand that funding be restored and the service saved. As part of the campaign they are calling on people to lobby their local councillor by taking the following steps:

Ask your councillor at this lobby or at their next surgery:

1. Why is Manchester the only major city not to have a law centre?

2. Why will there be nowhere in South Manchester for publicly funded immigration & asylum advice?

3. Why is such a long established centre with a national reputation being lost to Manchester residents?

Protect Your Rights, Keep Your Choice
SAVE YOUR LAW CENTRE

To sign the petition click here:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savesouthmanchesterlawcentre/

Contact your MP and Councillor
See www.smlc.org.uk and see our Facebook page Save South Manchester Law Centre

For more information contact Nadia Siddiqui on 0161 225 5111, Nadia@smlc.org.uk

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