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BAT faces landmark legal case over Malawi families’ poverty wages
Exclusive: Lawyers seeking compensation in UK for child labourers and their parents
Human rights lawyers are preparing to bring a landmark case against British American Tobacco on behalf of hundreds of children and their families forced by poverty wages to work in conditions of…
- Sarah Boseley
- The Guardian
Leigh Day’s lawyers are seeking compensation for more than 350 child labourers and their parents in the high court in London, arguing that the British company is guilty of “unjust enrichment”.
Leigh Day says it…