Richard Meeran in conversation with Sandra Cossart and Miriam Saage-Maaß

Our panel:

Miriam Saage-Maaß is a lawyer and legal director at ECCHR, where she has built up the Business and Human Rights program. She has worked on various cases against corporations, including civil proceedings against German retailers relating to the exploitation of workers in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and against companies trading in cotton picked by forced child labor in Uzbekistan. Miriam is also engaged in criminal proceedings against high-ranking officials, for example in the European arms industry, for their involvement in the commission of international crimes. She regularly publishes articles on the questions of corporate accountability for human rights violations in the global supply chain and consults internationally as an expert in corporate responsibility and human rights. She is a lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. 

Richard Meeran (Moderator) is a Partner and Head of the International Department at Leigh Day. He pioneered UK human rights litigation against multinationals, a field in which he has practiced for the past 27 years.