Legal Consultant
- Court Case Follow-up and Monitoring
- Follow up on ongoing trafficking cases before the courts and monitor their progress
.
- Maintain an updated status of assigned cases, including hearing dates, proceedings, rulings,
and applications.
- Attend relevant court proceedings and provide timely feedback to the organisation.
- Identify delays, challenges, or risks affecting case progression and recommend appropriate
action.
- Follow up on outstanding actions arising from court proceedings
- Survivor Preparation and Support
- Prepare survivors for court appearances and testimony in a clear, respectful, trauma
informed manner.
- Explain the court process, including what survivors can expect before, during, and after
testimony.
- Ensure survivors understand their rights and responsibilities within the justice process.
- Coordinate with the organisation's Programmes/Protection Officer and caseworkers on
psychosocial and practical support.
- Identify concerns affecting survivors' participation in court and recommend measures to
address them.
- Maintain confidentiality and uphold survivors' dignity throughout all legal engagements.
- Liaison with Prosecutors and Investigating Officers
- Maintain regular communication with prosecutors and investigating officers handling
assigned cases.
- Follow up on investigations, witness requirements, exhibits, statements, and hearing dates.
- Liaise to minimise avoidable postponements and adjournments.
- Where postponements are unavoidable, establish reasons, follow up revised hearing dates,
and promptly inform the organisation.
- Facilitate effective communication between the organisation and justice-sector
stakeholders
- Support for Cases Under Investigation, Shelter Referral, and Repatriation
- Provide legal support and follow-up for cases still under active investigation, including those
involving survivors referred to and residing in the organisation's shelters
.
- Monitor the status of investigations for shelter-referred cases and advise on their legal
implications for the survivor.
- Advise on the legal requirements and processes surrounding survivor repatriation, working in
collaboration with relevant foreign missions/embassies and other authorities.
- Liaise with foreign missions and relevant government agencies on the legal and
documentation aspects of repatriation.
- Continue to follow up on cases after a survivor's repatriation, until their successful closure,
coordinating with counterparts in the survivor's home country where necessary.
5.Strategic Litigation, Compensation and Restitution
- Liaise with the Programmes/Protection Officer on cases requiring strategic legal intervention.
- Identify cases where strategic litigation may advance survivors' rights and access to justice.
- Provide legal advice on avenues for compensation, restitution, and other remedies.
- Advise on legal and procedural requirements for pursuing compensation or restitution.
- Support legal applications, referrals, or interventions as agreed with the organisation.
- Document lessons and emerging legal issues to inform future survivor-support and advocacy
work.
- Legal Documentation and Reporting
- Maintain accurate, confidential records of assigned cases and legal follow-up activities.
- Provide timely written updates after court proceedings and significant case developments.
- Submit periodic case status reports to the organisation in writing.
- Immediately communicate urgent legal developments, risks, or matters requiring
management attention.
- Provide recommendations for action on cases requiring further legal intervention.
- Prepare a final consultancy report summarising activities, case progress, outcomes, and
recommendations.
- Cross-Team Collaboration, Trends Analysis, and Data Management
- Collaborate with the organisation's Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), Research, and
Programmes teams, sharing insights on trends and patterns emerging from cases to inform programming and reporting.
- Continuously provide recommendations on ways to strengthen collaboration with criminal
justice actors (police, prosecutors, judiciary) and increase successful convictions against traffickers and smugglers, while ensuring victims' rights are upheld throughout.
- Support the improvement of the organisation's systems and processes for accurately
collecting data and information relating to ongoing and concluded cases.
- Work with the M&E team to help ensure the correct and accurate collection of data linked to
the criminal justice process for assigned cases.
- Use the organisation's designated data management systems for recording, updating, and
reporting all case-related data and information.
- Comply fully with the organisation's data management policy in the handling, storage, and
sharing of all case data and information.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with a valid practising certificate.
- Demonstrated experience in criminal justice and court case management.
- Experience working on human trafficking, gender-based violence, child protection, or
related cases.
- Experience liaising with prosecutors, investigating officers, and other justice-sector actors.
- Experience or familiarity with repatriation processes and liaison with foreign
missions/embassies is an added advantage.
- Ability to comply with shelter security protocols and work collaboratively with shelter staff
and other consultants when engaging with victims.
- Analytical skills to identify trends and patterns in case data and translate these into
actionable recommendations.
- Experience or willingness to work with organisational data management systems and
comply with data management policies.
- Knowledge of survivors' rights and trauma-informed approaches to legal support.
- Knowledge and experience in compensation, restitution, victim participation, or other legal
remedies.
- Strong communication, coordination, case follow-up, and reporting skills.
- High standards of professional ethics, confidentiality, and integrity
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