Suzanne Harb

Suzanne Harb is a senior associate solicitor at Leigh Day, specialising in international human rights, group claims, and corporate accountability litigation. She is dual‑qualified, admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and as an attorney with the Beirut Bar Association. Suzanne joined Leigh Day in 2009 after practising as an attorney in Lebanon on a range of civil and criminal matters.

Suzanne has extensive experience in complex cross‑border litigation involving highly vulnerable claimants, including survivors of gender‑based violence and victims of unlawful detention and torture linked to multinational corporations and government bodies. She has worked on high‑profile cases involving foreign law, including Iraqi, Qatari, Egyptian and Kenyan law, and on matters exposing systemic abuses and structural barriers to justice.

Legal expertise

Since 2009, Suzanne has assisted Sapna Malik and Martyn Day on a number of high‑profile claims, including:

• Claims on behalf of two dual Irish–Libyan nationals against His Majesty’s Government for compensation arising from their alleged unlawful detention and torture in Egypt in 2007. The claims concern the alleged complicity of the British Security Services, including the sharing and seeking of intelligence with foreign authorities despite the foreseeable risk of serious harm.
• Claims by Malawian women against British tea companies concerning allegations of serious abuse and discrimination suffered during the course of their work on plantations.
• Claims by Iraqi detainees against the British Ministry of Defence, which succeeded following a ground‑breaking judgment delivered in December 2017 for unlawful detention and/or mistreatment.
• Cases involving several men detained and abused by British military personnel during the Camp Breadbasket incident in May 2003.
• Claims by Iraqi Locally Employed Civilians (LECs) against the British Ministry of Defence for damages relating to personal injuries and/or financial losses arising from their employment as interpreters for British forces in Iraq from 2003 onwards.