With Manchester Advice to close and the government looking to scrap most legal aid funding in social welfare law, the ability to access detailed professional advice on a range of issues could soon be a thing of the past.
With Manchester City Council staring devastating spending cuts in the face, what did our councillors think about the impact on the city? MULE popped down to the Town Hall to find out…
Public money is being ‘wasted’ while vulnerable people are denied access to justice, claim legal aid campaigners in Manchester. They are calling on the Legal Services Commission to back down from defending a challenge taken by two law centres to have their funding restored.
Today campaigners are set to march on the Labour party conference to call for support for the South Manchester Law Centre which faces closure. MULE’s Michael Pooler asks why this valued and well used service is being forced to shut its doors and argues that far from an isolated incident, its closure is part of a [...]
We asked Steve from the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) what his organisation was doing about Fitness to Work and discriminatory behaviour more generally.
As part of MULE’s feature on the Welfare Reform Bill, set to be trialled in Greater Manchester towards the end of 2010, Hazel Kent looks at who’s likely to be hit hardest by the Government’s latest welfare-cutting masterplan.
