Shelter Solicitor is "Lawyer of the Week" in The Times
16/07/2009
HELEN JACKSON, a solicitor at Shelter Manchester, the housing and homelessness charity, has been interviewed for Lawyer of the Week in this week's Law Supplement published in The Times today....and Ben McCormack gets a mention.
"HELEN JACKSON, a solicitor at Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, acted for Ms Sharon Moran, a mother of two, in a landmark House of Lords decision against Manchester City Council. It ruled that women staying in temporary refuges after fleeing domestic violence should be considered homeless and must be given urgent help by local authorities to find a permanent home."
> more on the Moran / Ali case
Click on the link below to read the full interview online...including the huge significance of this case for women in refuge accommodation...making a difference as a lawyer...some sound advice...and why GCN barrister Ben McCormack has been the most influential person in Helen's life.
> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6715338.ece
You can also read the extract below:
"Who has been the most influential person in your life?
Ben McCormack
, who is now a barrister at Garden Court North. He allowed me to do work experience with him when he was a solicitor. His enthusiasm for housing law and for trying to help people at the margins of society was contagious and inspired me to go into housing law."
