Nichola Marshall

Nichola is an expert in management of multi-claimant cases. Since joining Leigh Day she has worked on some of the firm's largest, landmark multi-party action international claims including

• the high profile group claim against the oil trading company Trafigura on behalf of 30,000 residents of the Cote d’Ivoire (the largest foreign claimant group action to be brought in the UK),
• the historic case against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on behalf of the Mau Mau who suffered torture at the hands of the British
• litigation against Shell on behalf of the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta whose land had been severely polluted following two large oil spills.

Nichola has also acted in other notable group claims including

• against the Ministry of Defence on behalf of Iraqi citizens
• on behalf of a group of children in Kenya and Uganda who alleged that they were abused by a British Pilot working for British Airways
• against the Methodist Church on behalf of a group of individuals in Sierra Leone
• in Kenya on behalf of a group of individuals who alleged that they were sexually abused by Simon Harris, a British charity boss. Simon Harris was the first British man to be convicted in relation to sexual offences committed in Africa.
• Nichola also acts in domestic group actions. She was involved in a multi-claimant case in relation to pension loss on behalf of doctors, and is currently acting on behalf of the Claimants in the NOX emissions claims against a number of vehicle manufacturers concerning alleged use of illegal defeat devices. The case is listed for a 10 week trial in October 2025.  

Nichola's publications

Holding multinationals to account: odd beacons of light in the gloom Frontline Winter 2013/4 (jointly with Martyn Day)