Dena Latif

Dena is an Associate Solicitor working in the international department, specialising in litigation arising from human rights abuses involving multinational corporations.

Dena joined Leigh Day as a trainee in the international department in September 2022. She qualified in September 2024. Prior to joining Leigh Day, she worked in several NGO and research roles in Sudan, New York and London including in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs for North Africa. 

Legal expertise: 

• Worked on the Unilever Plc case, on behalf of group of 80 Kenyan women who allege they have been subjected to sexual assault, harassment and/or other forms of serious mistreatment by men who were employed to work on Unilever’s former tea estates in Kericho Kenya. 
• Assisted in investigations into allegations of the unlawful detention and torture of a British individual overseas. 
• Worked on over a dozen cases brought by sufferers of asbestos related diseases throughout the UK and abroad who were negligently exposed to asbestos over the course of their employments. 
• Assisted in a claim representing a group of forty-one Tamil asylum seekers, including thirteen children, who were detained on Diego Garcia by the British Indian Ocean Territory Administration. The claim relates to the alleged false imprisonment and personal injury sustained during the group’s detention. 
• Is currently investigating claims of historic child sexual abuse at a Sisters of Nazareth children’s home in South Africa. 

Education: 

Oxford University, History BA (First class). Columbia University, MA in Human Rights, GDL and LPC from BPP (both distinction) 

Dena speaks both English and Arabic.