The widow of a suicide bomber has urged a court to overturn a decision to refuse her legal aid for representation at the upcoming inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the 7/7 attacks in London, reports the Press Association on News Yahoo.
Hasina Patel, whose husband was plot mastermind Mohammed Sidique Khan, is challenging the refusal to provide her with funding.
Her QC, Ian Wise, told Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Silber, sitting at the High Court in London, that the "important" question for them is whether the May decision was "rational and lawful".
He said: "If such funding were to be granted she would be in a position to make representations to the coroner as to why the inquest into the death of her husband should be resumed and whether it should be joined to the inquests into the deaths of the 52 victims of the bombings."
He emphasised that her judicial review application was not about the judges being asked to adjudicate on the "merits" of any application to resume the inquest into the death of her husband, or whether "any such inquest should be joined to the ongoing inquests due to begin on October 11 this year".
