BHP’s portion of the costs for the 22-week trial are forecast to be about £108 million, according to documents filed with Britain’s High Court.
Legal fees for the 22-week trial in the class action against mining giant BHP over the 2015 Mariana dam disaster in Brazil could top £350 million as both sides engage in bitter courtroom warfare.
The estimates submitted to Britain’s High Court are just for the first stage of the trial. If BHP is found liable, there will be a second stage where the parties fight over how much class members should be paid in damages.at the Germano iron ore mine.
BHP’s lawyers noted Pogust Goodhead had “given repeated assurances to their clients that they would never have to pay anything at all if their claim was lost”. The law firm’s chief legal officer Christopher Neill accused BHP of “an orchestrated campaign … to distract the claimants from the trial.” “It is almost inconceivable that one of these cases actually goes to a full trial, a full trial of damages, and the court orders the defendant to pay the money,” he said, adding that most matters settled in a way where defendants covered PG’s legal and funding bill separate to the damages pool.
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