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Anna Dannreuther
Case law
Município de Mariana v BHP Group (UK) Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 951
The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in this case brought by 202,600 Brazilian claimants seeking compensation for damage caused by the collapse of the Fundão Dam. The owners of the dam, BHP, had applied to strike out the claims on the basis they were an abuse of process. The first instance Judge struck out the claims on the basis that the claims were "irredeemably unmanageable" in England, mainly because of the risk of irreconcilable judgments and cross-contamination arising from parallel proceedings in Brazil. The Court of Appeal overturned this decision, finding that the fact that a claim might be 'unmanageable' did not make it an abuse, and ...
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