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Article

7 Aug 2013

Author:
Sam Chadderton, Legal Futures (UK)

Top City firms aim to develop human rights principles to guide work [UK]

Some of the country’s biggest law firms are moving closer to establishing stand-alone human rights policies, it has emerged. Whereas many firms claim to have embedded UN guiding principles on business and human rights into their corporate and social responsibility policies, top City firms such as Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) are working towards creating human rights policies of their own…HSF partner Louise Moore, who leads the firm’s sustainability group…said: “A human rights policy has got to be something fundamentally more than just a few lines...”…“It is not enough to be there advocating approaches to clients, we must make sure our own house is in order…”…