Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

"Bitter disappointment" as training contract grant scheme is scrapped

Legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly is scrapping the training contract grant scheme with immediate effect.

Throw us a bone

About ten years ago my local authority decided that it needed rather more joined up thinking when it came to resolving the difficulties faced by the myriad of tenants living within the borough. We had a very high proportion of private tenanted accommodation and also a significant social housing sector. Put quite shortly the problem was that tenants were getting into trouble with their rent â€“ being evicted and quite literally ending up in the town hall with their suitcases asking for help.

Taking the sugar pill

â€œWhen your baby dies, don't sue me,â€ warned the angry obstetrician when my wife (as she then wasn't) refused his advice to stay in hospital because her as yet unborn son was stubbornly in the breech position. The obstetrician said there was no hope of turning him and he insisted she should have a caesarean. She on the other hand really wanted to have a home birth; the problem was solved when her midwife administered a homeopathic remedy. Within hours the baby turned and was born naturally. Last year that baby achieved first class honours at Oxford Brookes University.

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