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Judith Houston

Mills & Reeve
Judith Houston is a Senior Associate in the London corporate and commercial team at Mills & Reeve LLP.

Judith specialises in advising clients on corporate matters and ESG. Her practice covers a wide range of issues including governance reviews, ESG reporting, and general corporate and commercial matters. She advises clients across various industries, offering practical legal guidance on business transactions and governance challenges.

Judith brings strong commercial acumen to her role, developed through a previous career in ESG and client secondments to in-house legal teams at GlaxoSmithKline and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Her earlier ESG roles included positions at the Institute of Business Ethics, Network Rail, and the LEGO Group.

Judith is qualified to practise law in England & Wales. She was listed in The Lawyer ‘Hot 100’ 2025.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2021

Experience

  • Mills & Reeve LLP (September 2019 - Present)
  • The LEGO Group (January 2015 - August 2016)
  • Network Rail (May 2013 - December 2014)
  • Institute of Business Ethics (June 2008 - May 2013)
  • KPMG Banarra Sustainability Consultancy (November 2006 - April 2007)

Membership

  • Law Society of England and Wales

Qualifications

  • Winter Programme in Public / Private International Law (44562)
  • Legal Practice Course (2018 - 2019 )
  • Graduate Diploma in Law (2016 - 2018)
  • MA Corporate Social Responsibility in an International Context (2007 - 2008)
  • BBA Business Adminsitration (2004 - 2005)
  • Undergraduate MA International Business (2002 - 2006)

Education

  • The Hague Academy of International Law (44562)
  • University of Law (2018 - 2019)
  • BPP (2016 - 2018)
  • International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Nottingham (2007 - 2008)
  • McCombs School of Business at University of Texas, Austin (2004 - 2005)
  • University of Edinburgh (2002 - 2006)

2 Contributions by Judith Houston

UK and EU private-sector supply chain sustainability: a practitioner’s guide to ESG due diligence, supplier codes, contractual controls and risk mitigation
PRACTICE NOTES
UK and EU private-sector supply chain sustainability: a practitioner’s guide to ESG due diligence, supplier codes, contractual controls and risk mitigation
Embedding sustainability This Practice Note considers supply chain sustainability through the wider lens of sustainable procurement and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, concentrating on leading themes in UK and EU private sector practice. It offers practical direction on setting up a supplier code of conduct and building a comprehensive supply chain sustainability programme that addresses: Human rights and labour standards Environmental impacts and deforestation Corruption and litigation exposure Risk management across the supply chain Public procurement sits outside the scope of this note. For further information on supply chain sustainability in the UK, including details on UK regulations, see Practice Note: Supply chain sustainability—UK. For further information on supply chain sustainability in the EU, including details on EU regulations, see Practice Note: Supply chain sustainability—EU. For further information on sustainable public procurement in the UK, see Practice Note: A guide to sustainable public procurement. Supply chain sustainability has moved from the margins to a central business priority. Although the regulatory landscape continues to develop, there is now abundant guidance and precedent to help organisations design and implement robust compliance frameworks that align with both national and international standards...
Commercial
UK private sector supply chain sustainability: regulatory duties, contractual due diligence and risk management across environment, human rights, anti-corruption and minerals, with EU extraterritorial impacts
PRACTICE NOTES
UK private sector supply chain sustainability: regulatory duties, contractual due diligence and risk management across environment, human rights, anti-corruption and minerals, with EU extraterritorial impacts
This Practice Note examines supply chain sustainability within the wider landscape of sustainable procurement and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, with a particular emphasis on private sector practice in the UK. It delivers practical direction on creating a supplier code of conduct and shaping a comprehensive UK supply chain sustainability programme that considers key matters including human rights, labour standards, environmental effects, corruption, deforestation, exposure to litigation, and risk management. Public procurement does not fall within the scope of this Practice Note. For further reading on central themes in supply chain sustainability—covering what it is, how companies can build a sustainable supply chain, which issues a supply chain sustainability programme should address, the risks of not doing so, and mitigation—see Practice Note: Supply chain sustainability—key themes. For information on supply chain sustainability in the EU, including more detail on EU regulations, see Practice Note: Supply chain sustainability—EU. For guidance on sustainable public procurement, see Practice Note: A guide to sustainable public procurement... Developing a supply chain sustainability programme addressing environmental concerns The government has brought forward a suite of legislative measures intended to reduce environmental harm...
Commercial
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