Carol Day is a two-job Hottie. Part of her working life is spent at Leigh Day, where she has a particular focus on supporting challenges by environmental NGOs seeking to tackle the global biodiversity crisis. One such case for Wild Justice is fighting against the proposed badger cull in Northern Ireland. Day has managed to stop the cull for 2022 at least; final judgment is awaited. In another she is taking on Ofwat over sewage dumps, arguing that a lack of proper regulation means sewage treatment works are not diverting funds to improve their services: it heads for the Court of Appeal in 2023.
Day’s second job is more of a strategic role for the RSPB and focuses on granting the public greater access to environmental justice: how people get hold of information, participate in the decision-making processes and go to court. She is helping draft an Environmental Rights Act, which the RSPB hopes opposition parties will commit to introducing in their next manifesto to enshrine environmental rights in law.
An environmental activist until she re-qualified at age 37, in her second career Day is at the forefront in showing how the law and lawyers are key in relation to tackling climate change and the nature crisis: perhaps the biggest threats to life on earth.