The British Army had allegedly left unexploded ordnances in unfenced grazing fields, and more than 500 herders, mostly children, had died after picking up the explosives or accidentally stepping on them. That marked the beginning of more than 20 trips to Kenya by the lawyers in the case that would last four years. After the fact-finding was complete, Mr Day and his fellow lawyers returned to Britain to file a case against the government’s Ministry of Defence. Also, differentiating as to which clients had been injured by British Army ordnance rather than Kenyan became very difficult. The next time Mr Day handled a Kenyan case was during the litigation for the Mau Mau where the Leigh Day firm brought a case for over 5,000 claimants.

Source: Daily Nation August 25, 2020 07:52 UTC