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If you’re a human rights lawyer, an expert in shipping legislation or a specialist in immigration, you might find yourself handling a client who’s in legal limbo.
These are people who end up stateless or out of place, unable to move from where they are for fear of reprisals or with nowhere else to go.
There are lots of legal vacancies on s1jobs and, while many can involve complex cases, those that hinge on individuals in these circumstances can prove the most challenging and protracted.
To whet your appetite for this kind of work, here are three cases where legal representatives have had to settle in for the long game.
Mehran Karini Nasseri
He claimed to have been expelled from Iran in 1977, was thrown out of several countries and awarded refugee status by the UN before failing in his bid to come to Britain.
But what makes Nasseri famous is he lived for 18 years in the departure lounge of Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Both France and Belgium offered residency but he refused to sign the papers – much to the frustration of his lawyer Christian Bourget.
Stephen Spielberg paid him $250,000 for the film rights to his story but didn’t feature Nasseri in his film The Terminal.
Nasseri left the airport in 2006 and moved to a hostel in Paris. Le fin!
Nikesh Rastogi
For more than 15 months a sailor has been stranded on a ship moored in the docks at Great Yarmouth.
Captain Rastogi was part of a 13-strong replacement crew for the Malaviya Twenty, contracted in February 2017.
Most of the crew have not been paid and came ashore but Captain Rastogi from Mumbai says, if he leaves the ship, it would be declared a derelict and anyone could then claim it for salvage.
So he remains on board while the legal dispute continues. Ahoy! Calling all maritime lawyers!
Julian Assange
For more than five years now Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been in self-imposed imprisonment in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition charges.
Earlier this year Lenin Moreno, the president of Ecuador, said Assange’s asylum status in the embassy is not under threat – provided he complies with the conditions of his stay and avoids voicing his political opinions on Twitter. Erm, not likely!
If you’d rather widen your horizons than stay put like these fellows, there’s a world of Legal vacancies to discover on s1jobs.