Following extensive consultation with legal experts and rightsholders from around the world, CJC has published an model legal proposal that centres the needs of rightsholders and shows concretely, how the UK legal system can be strengthened to protect people and the planet from corporate harm.
Check out our FAQ about how our proposal for a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act works. This includes the type of harm it would addressed, the requirements it would put on public bodies and companies, enforcement, and how it would strengthen access to justice and remedy for victims.
Have a look at our join submission to the Labour Party National Policy Forum. We outline the cost of inaction by not regulating responsible business conduct on human rights and the environment, how the Make Work Pay plan needs to address exploitative market power across supply chains and the implications of BHREA for the economy, women, and marginalised communities.
Over 200 pages of evidence submitted to the government, more than 145,000 signatures handed over to No.10, twelve new briefings and statements published and a 10% increase in our membership: it’s safe to say that 2025 was another busy year for the Corporate Justice Coalition. Click the link below to download our latest impact report...
49 leading businesses and investors have called on the UK Government to introduce a new legal requirement for companies and investors to carry out human rights and environmental due diligence. A group including Microsoft, Tesco, Primark and Nestlé said: “Legislation can contribute to a competitive level playing field, increase legal certainty about the standards expected...
A new legal review by Tim Otty QC and Naina Patel of Blackstone Chambers looks into Boohoo’s Leicester supply chain and finds the fast fashion brand could have been held liable under a UK mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law called for by rights groups. In the review, it is argued that, “Boohoo...
Over 180 indigenous peoples’ organisations, civil society groups, including human rights, environmental and conservation organisations and human rights, land and environmental defenders, as well as academics and experts from 58 countries worldwide have issued an Open Letter to World Leaders, calling on them to ensure human rights are at the centre of all environmental policy....
A coalition of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples’ groups, scientists and academics is urging the Prime Minister to act on tropical deforestation and human rights abuses. In Brazil, the Congress is currently considering new legislation that would legalise illegal land grabbing in the Amazon. Such destruction of the Amazon has dire implications for the Amazon’s Indigenous peoples...
CJC welcomes the opportunity to respond to the BEIS department consultation. This response covers chapters 5, 6 and 11 of the report. Read full response in the attached document below.
