This Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update looks at the most significant developments in corporate legal accountability for human rights abuses in the first quarter of 2020, and includes:

• A highlight on the role of civil society in holding companies to account with environmental litigation
• A new case profiles of lawsuit against Total regarding its alleged failure to respect the French duty of vigilance law in operations in Uganda
• New case profiles of lawsuits brought by Socfin and Tourah Cement against an NGO and workers respectively
• Other legal news and updates