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22 January 2018
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TLEF grants drive rule of law

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Grants totalling £5m from The Legal Education Foundation (TLEF) funded trainee lawyer posts and helped legal teams support Grenfell Tower residents, among a range of projects last year.

TLEF’s annual review records its support for law centres, advice agencies, universities, charities and law firms. Its 91 grants in 2017 include £1.25m to create 15 traineeships at social justice organisations, £67,000 for North Kensington Law Centre’s dedicated Grenfell Response Team in the aftermath of the fire, £146,000 for a Legal Aid Practitioners Group programme of practice management training, £98,000 for a Disability Rights UK online interactive guide on legal rights for disabled people, and an innovative project to bring specialist lawyers together with homelessness outreach workers.

Matthew Smerdon, TLEF chief executive, said: 'Drawing all TLEF's work together is a driving belief in the role of the law as a tool to solve people's problems.’ 

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