Leigh Day

Martyn Day
Born	18 February Harrogate, England

Martyn Day is the Senior Partner at Leigh Day specialising in international, environment and product liability claims, often as group actions. He was a director of Greenpeace Environmental Trust, having stepped down as chairman of Greenpeace UK in 2008.

Examples of his work include negotiating settlements for approximately 1,300 Kenyans injured/killed by British Army munitions, for 52 Colombian farmers in a claim against BP relating to the damage caused to farms in the north of the country for residents of Abidjan after the disposal of waste in the Ivory Coast has led to deaths and injuries in Abidjan and Iraqis alleging torture by British soldiers. He is co-author of Toxic Torts, Personal Injury Handbook, Multi-Party Actions and Environmental Action: A Citizens Guide. In April 2008 Day was identified by The Times as one of the UK's most powerful and influential lawyers. In late 2014 Leigh Day was referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for issues arising from the Al-Sweady Inquiry.

Day is the elder brother of Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker Philip J Day.

Day went to school at Peterhouse Boys' School in Zimbabwe before returning to England for his A-Levels and a law degree at Warwick University. He qualified with Colombotti & Partners in 1981 before practicing at Clifford & Co. and subsequently Bindman & Partners.

Leigh Day was established in 1987 by Day and Sarah Leigh.The firm's ethos is "to ensure that the ordinary person has just as good quality legal advice as our state bodies, insurers and multi-nationals."

One of the UK's most prominent human rights lawyers, Day and his firm have been described by The Guardian newspaper as the "scourge of the corporations". He specialises in group claims, securing damages in cases including a group of Sellafield nuclear workers suffering from leukaemia and the Japanese prisoner of war cases. He has also won damages claims for Colombian farmers against BP and represented four of the six men injured in the trials following the 2006 Northwick Park drug tests. He co-founded Leigh Day & Co, where he is senior partner, in 1987.

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