This essay will use the strategic litigation of the Solai Dam Tragedy in Kenya as a case study to analyze the challenges of addressing environmental business and human rights violations in court proceedings. In the business and human rights framework, strategic litigation serves as a pathway for victims of business-related harm to seek judicial remedy. There is no universally accepted definition for the term “strategic litigation” but it does differ from conventional forms of litigation because the legal “strategy” deployed is oriented not only on solving a past dispute in the client’s interest but also seeks to develop principles that could be used by others and produce a broader societal impact, including the building blocks to change social attitudes and effectuate political reform. 1 In that way, strategic litigation can result in lasting change.
Florence Karimi Shako (Thu,) studied this question.