NAWRA to hold quarterly conference in association with Garden Court North Chambers

2 June 2025

NAWRA's landmark event will take place on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 June, 2025, at Stockport Town Hall (pictured). Credit: Alastair Wallace / Shutterstock.

NAWRA’s event will take place on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 June, 2025, at Stockport Town Hall (pictured). Credit: Alastair Wallace / Shutterstock.

 

The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA) will hold its quarterly conference this Friday (6 June 2025) at Stockport Town Hall, in association with Garden Court North Chambers.

Hosted by Greater Manchester Law Centre (GMLC) and Stockport Council, the one-day conference aims to emphasise the crucial role of social welfare advice and commemorate NAWRA’s 50th anniversary.

A host of Garden Court North barristers will be dissecting potential legal challenges to the Government’s proposed ‘Pathways to Work Green Paper’ and disability benefits cuts in a session at 14:00pm.

Tom Royston, Alexa Thompson and Rosalind Burgin will draw on their expertise in social security, housing and public law to discuss this pressing issue alongside contributions from the public law teams at Leigh Day, GMLC, and Public Law Project. The session will be interactive with room for discussion.

See the agenda for NAWRA’s quarterly conference here.

The conference proceeds NAWRA’s one-day advice summit on Thursday (5 June 2025), at which Garden Court North’s Alexander McColl will be delivering a session on advice as a statutory duty at 14:45pm.

The advice summit will also involve sessions from NAWRA founding members, academics, advisers, advice providers, and a panel Q&A chaired by Patrick Butler, The Guardian’s Social Policy Editor.

See the agenda for NAWRA’s advice summit here.

 

Additional media

NAWRA – NAWRA advice summit (5 Jun 2025) and NAWRA conference (6 Jun 2025) at Stockport Town Hall

Garden Court North Chambers – Legal challenges or a Labour rebellion? Tom Royston dissects Government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits

 

For further information, please contact Alex Blair, Communications Manager at Garden Court North Chambers: ablair@gcnchambers.co.uk

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