“After qualifying as a barrister and a solicitor in Nigeria and specialising in maritime law for 15 years, I moved to England and did a conversion course to practise as a solicitor here. It was difficult to get a role, so I started to volunteer full time at a law centre for six months and stumbled into focusing on social welfare law for the past nine years. I became a senior solicitor at a law centre and later moved to become a solicitor, manager and then chief executive of a citizens advice bureau.