Sue Willman is a partner at Deighton Pierce Gylnn. Sue has a broad spectrum of public and human rights law expertise, including public law environmental challenges. Sue is currently focussing on linking her human rights and environmental expertise to extend the firm’s work on tackling international human rights violations.

Sue is a founding Director of the Colombia Caravana campaign group which supports lawyers in Colombia who face serious human rights violations. In 2012 she participated in an investigation of corporate impacts in Colombia for the Alliance of Lawyers at Risk, highlighting the impact of Cerrejon open cast coal mine on indigenous communities. She is currently advising on cases relation to environmental and human rights claims linked to the activities of oil and coal companies in Colombia. Sue works closely with the Environmental Law Foundation and is active in Wild Law UK which advocates for a move away from ‘human-based’ environmental law and policy, towards legal systems which recognise the rights of nature.