Mining company negotiates £24.3 billion settlement over Mariana dam failure

Mining company BHP is negotiating a possible £24.3 billion settlement over the 2015 dam failure in Brazil as the eagerly anticipated High Court trial began. The action has been described as ‘the largest class action in history’ by international law farm Pogust Goodhead (PG), who represent more than 600,000 Brazilian residents After all the hype and build up outside the court room, the trial began with painstaking, often dry detail of the corporate structure of BHP – and not the…