Law trainer dies following cancer battle
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Housing law trainer and consultant Margaret Biggs has died, following a year-long battle with cancer.
She developed training courses specialising in housing, family and immigration law, drawing on her background in neighbourhood law centres.
She also acted as an adviser for housing services, and was a visiting lecturer at South Bank and Cardiff universities.
An obituary sent by consultancy LJM says she died on 26 October.
It reads: ‘Margaret’s expertise and engaging personality ensured everyone attending her training sessions learned as much about their own role as the law. In a business where legal decisions often complicated essential processes, Margaret was always able to remain pragmatic and sensible in the application of the law.
‘Her death leaves a huge gap in the way housing law is explained to people working in housing. Many people, including us all at LJM Consultancy, as well as the housing industry as a whole have lost a loyal and trusted friend.‘
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Ros Tyrrell | 07/12/2009 6:12 pm
Margaret was well know to all the North Wales local authorities and provided some valuable and engaging training on homelessness and private sector law. I was especially grateful for her help in checking a handbook on homelessness for Welsh authorities. She was a vibrant and effect trainer and her knowledge was extensive. She was also a great character and we shall all miss her very much.
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The.Dark.One | 08/12/2009 10:23 am
Margaret was very knowledgeable and had a way of making stale subjects fun and very interesting. She will be missed.
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Steve | 08/12/2009 7:38 pm
I am very sorry to hear this. She was a great character and an expert who bought subjects as dry and potentially dull as leasehold management law to life.
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Michelle Emery | 29/12/2009 11:05 am
I have had the fortune to attend many of Margaret's training courses. As Steve says she had the ability to bring the subjects she was teaching to life. She will be very sorely missed.
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Beth | 05/01/2010 9:33 am
I attended one of Margaret's courses and her enthusiasm, knowledge and great sense of humour did bring the topics to life.
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Geoff Cheetham | 13/01/2010 7:02 pm
I have know Margaret for many years and have benefited from her expertise on many occasions.
Margaret was a fun, energetic person who infected all with her enthusiam and humour and I will miss her.
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Lisa Derrick | 04/02/2010 12:03 pm
Unfortunately we have only heard this very sad news in the last few days, we are so sorry not to have been able to pass on our condolences to Margaret's family and close friends.
Margaret was an integral and extremely well valued part of the training that we provided and will be so missed. Her ability to bring courses to life was incredible.
Thank you to Margaret.
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Adam Lee | 25/02/2010 0:57 am
I sat on two training courses delivered by Margaret and probably learnt more from her on Housng Law than the 10 years i have spent in Housing and the three years i spend doing my Law degree. Why?...because she was able to provide military clarity on aspects of housing that were tangles into knots by our peers. She is a huge loss but i hope her family take solace in the fact that this is becuase she made such an enormous contribution to so many.
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