Shelter wins landmark Legal Aid-funded case

Shelter has won an historic legal case at the European Court of Justice on behalf of a homeless woman with four small children. The case was wholly funded by the Government’s legal aid services. Shelter represented Nimco Hassan Ibrahim, a mother of four children, after her housing application was turned down by Harrow Council. The case, which lasted three years, finally went before the European Court of Justice who ruled in favour of Mrs Ibrahim. Shelter chief executive Campbell Robb said: ‘Shelter did not fund this case, as claimed in a daily newspaper, and none of our funding or donations from the public or corporate sponsors has been used. The case was wholly funded by legal aid through the Legal Services Commission.’