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Hannah Edmonds-Camara

Hannah Edmonds-Camara is a founding member of the firm’s Business and Human Rights (BHR) practice and advises on a breadth of BHR and ESG issues. In particular, Hannah has deep experience advising on the development and implementation of global human rights and environmental due diligence programmes, in response to the evolving, global regulatory landscape.

She advises on: compliance with ESG disclosure and due diligence requirements, including the EU’s CSRD and CSDDD; BHR-related investigations and remediation strategies; forced labour import ban regimes (e.g. the EU’s Forced Labour Regulation); responding to complaints raised through non-judicial grievance mechanisms (including OECD National Contact Points); ESG due diligence in an M&A context; global risk assessments; workplace culture reviews; design of project and issue-specific human rights frameworks and stakeholder engagement strategies; and policy engagement on BHR legislative files.

The UK Government recently announced that it is developing legislation that would make it illegal for large businesses operating in the UK to use certain commodities that have not been produced in line with local laws, and require in-scope companies to conduct due diligence to ensure that their supply chains are free from illegal deforestation and ecosystem change. A failure to comply could result in significant fines (the precise levels of fines are yet to be determined).
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As foreign investment into Sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow, inevitably, so does the risk of disputes arising between commercial parties. The potential benefits of arbitration in settling a commercial dispute, including procedural flexibility and neutrality, are well known (read more from the ICC here). This post provides an…
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