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UK Court to Reconsider $6.9 Billion Brazil Dam Lawsuit Against BHP
LONDON London’s Court of Appeal will hear a request to revive a 5 billion pound ($6.95 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining group BHP over a 2015 dam failure in Brazil, a court order showed.
Judge Nicholas Underhill has agreed to an oral hearing that could help to overturn a previous Court of Appeal decision which denied a 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group permission to appeal against a judgment to strike out the landmark case.
“I am satisfied that, exceptionally, an oral hearing is appropriate in this case,” the judge said in the order, which was signed on May 4 and seen by Reuters on Thursday.
Justice For Megrahi committee appears on stage for Q&A after David Benson s play Lockerbie: Unfinished Business. Dr Jim Swire taking part in the question and answer session. St John s Church, Edinburgh, copyright Julie Howden Newsquest JIM Swire tells a story about a visit he made to the man convicted of the bombing of Pan-Am 103, the atrocity that killed 270 people including his daughter Flora. In the late stages of cancer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi sat on his bed propped on pillows. By this point Swire considered him innocent of the murder of his daughter. The very last words Megrahi spoke to him were: “I am going to a place where I hope soon to see Flora. I will tell her that her father is my friend.”
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