Lawyer Consultant - Beqaa Office

BACKGROUND:

The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization based in Beirut. CLDH was created in 2006 by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily), which has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human rights violations.

CLDH monitors the human rights situation in Lebanon, fights enforced disappearance, impunity, arbitrary detention and racism and rehabilitates the victims of torture. CLDH regularly organizes press conferences, workshops and advocacy meetings on human rights issues in Lebanon and collects, records and documents human rights abuses in reports and press releases.

CLDH team on the ground supports initiatives aimed at determining the fate of all missing persons in Lebanon.

CLDH regularly follows up on numerous cases of arbitrary detention and torture in Lebanon in coordination with Lebanese and international organizations, and with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention WGAD and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Center’s director, in coordination with the detention coordinator, the other lawyers and the assistant, the lawyer consultant with CLDH can be requested to:

1-Provide legal consultations at CLDH premises:

Welcome the beneficiaries at CLDH and counsel them regarding their file, their legal status in Lebanon or other legal issues they may have.

Follow the cases at General Security, in front of the Judiciary and any other relevant institutions.

2-Defend the beneficiaries in courts:

Act as beneficiary’s lawyer (with a power of attorney),

Defend the beneficiaries in courts.

Present appeals to courts decisions.

3-Other legal proceedings:

Assist detainees in police stations

Apply for having the sentences of the prisoner run concurrently

Apply for a reduction of the amount of the bail

Close old arrest warrants that could have remained in the detainee’s file.

4-Follow-up on administrative detention:

Follow-up detentions at the General Security

Coordinate with relevant institutions

Facilitate release or departure according to the needs 

Essential Minimum Qualifications and Professional Experience Required:

• 3 to 5 years of experience

Education:

•      Lawyer must be registered at the Bar Association

Location:

 The selected candidate will work in the Beqaa area (Deir el Ahmar, Baalbeck, Zahle..).