Authors:LAG
Created:2017-03-01
Last updated:2023-09-18
Greater Manchester Law Centre opens
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Marc Bloomfield
A new Law Centre for the Greater Manchester area opened last month in Moss Side. The official launch was attended by a large number of local people. Guests included the well-known barrister Michael Mansfield QC and the actor Maxine Peake (pictured left at the launch) who are both patrons of the Law Centre.
The chair of the centre’s management committee, John Nicholson, said that they are ‘fighting for a new generation of publicly funded social welfare lawyers’ and that the centre, which will initially be staffed mainly by volunteers, has not been established ‘to mask the severity of cuts and closures’.