London | An English appeals court has given 200,000-plus Brazilian litigants the green light to pursue their £5 billion ($8.8 billion) class action against BHP over the 2015 Samarco dam disaster.
The long-running courtroom saga can now go to a full trial, after class action law firm PGMBM on Friday succeeded in getting the Court of Appeal to overturn BHP’s initial victory in March last year.
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