Press Coverage of the Campaign to Save Birmingham Law Centre
The campaign to save Birmingham Law Centre began in earnest on Thursday 3 January 2013. Staff at the law centre organised a lobby of the full Council meeting on 8 January ahead of a meeting arranged between the law centre and Sir Albert Bore, Leader of the Council set for Friday 11 January. The lobby was trailed by an article in the .
ITV Central News covered the event outside the Council House. We also managed to get a client of ours to ask a question in the Council chamber but there was a categorical refusal to accept that the law centre should be funded by the Council. Albert Bore stated that the City Council’s neighbourhood office network plus CAB would sufficiently meet the needs of Birmingham citizens. BBC online covered the meeting.
Stories have also subsequently appeared in the Law Society Gazette and the Lawyer Magazine as well as our friends at Birmingham Against the Cuts .