Slaughter and May, which represents BHP, had argued that thousands of claimants should not be part of the London case, in which claimants seek £36 billion in damages for a deadly 2015 mining dam spill in Brazil.
June 27, 2024 at 02:32 PM
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Latin America Correspondent
This story has been updated.
A High Court judge in the U.K. has struck down an attempt to exclude thousands of claimants from pursuing compensation for damages caused by a devastating dam collapse in 2015 at a mine co-owned in Brazil by BHP Group.
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The collapse of the tailings dam owned by mining company Samarco, owned by Vale and Anglo-Australian BHP. Photo: Rogério Alves/TV Senado via Wikimedia Commons
