Founder and legally qualified head lawyer and Director at Fightback4Justice, a not-for-profit community-based CIC registered under the name of Advocacy For Disabled People CIC. Michelle holds a LLB law degree with honours, a certificate of education in law and Law AS and has significant experience working in the welfare rights industry. Starting life following her degree at Citizens Advice Bureau as a law advocate in the law department, she then went on run a department at busy solicitors Adamson’s law, setting up and running welfare rights department, offering probono help to those who needed it.

Michelle’s has worked with disabled vulnerable people since 2013, and has gained much experience dealing with the disability benefits PIP, ESA/UC and Child and adult DLA. Along with other social welfare experience including housing and debt, she can advise on policy and the legal areas surrounding these benefits, as well as trends as she sees them on their Facebook community page, which has over 1 million hits a week and 100k followers.