Sandra Boye-Clarkson

Since joining Leigh Day Sandra has worked on a range of cases, primarily concerning corporate accountability for human rights abuses and environmental damage. These include:

• Claims by more than 100 residents from two quilombola communities in Brazil against Brazil Iron for alleged environmental damage from pollution from its mine.

• Claims against Amerisur Resources Plc brought by individuals, mainly small-scale farmers and their families, in relation to an oil spill in 2015 that they alleged contaminated their local waterways.

• Claims against Vedanta Resources Plc and its Zambian subsidiary brought by over 2,500 Zambian individuals that alleged harm caused to their land and waterways by pollution emanating from the Nchanga copper mine. This case led to a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court in 2019, establishing important principles of parent company liability.

• Modern slavery claims including claims against a British Company by Lithuanians who alleged they were trafficked to the UK and subjected to severe labour exploitation working as chicken catchers at farms across the UK.

• Josiya & Ors v British American Tobacco Plc & Ors – claims by Malawian tobacco farmers, their wives and children alleging that BAT and/or Imperial have been unjustly enriched because the tobacco has been produced in conditions that amount to child and forced labour.

• Claims by Iraqi civilians against the Ministry of Defence.

• Diesel emissions litigation – claims relating to allegations that certain diesel vehicles contain prohibited defeat devices .

Before joining Leigh Day, she interned at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin and Al-Haq in Ramallah, where her work was focused on business and human rights issues.

She has a degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and speaks fluent Spanish, having spent a year studying Spanish Law at the Complutense University in Madrid.