“UK court to reconsider $6.9 bln Brazil dam lawsuit against BHP”, 06 May 2021

...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 (BHPB.L), (BHP.AX) 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...The order comes less than two months after the Court of Appeal refused permission for a lawsuit over Brazil's worst environmental disaster to proceed in English courts. The Court of Appeal said in March it agreed with a lower court that the case was an abuse of process, that claimants could - and were - making reparation claims in Brazil and that the lawsuit would be "irredeemably unmanageable"...PGMBM, the law firm representing the Brazilian claimants, said it had been contacted by many clients to "express their gratitude in respect of the consideration being given by the Court of Appeal to their application". BHP, the world's largest miner by market value, said it was aware of the application...The case is the latest battle to establish whether multinationals can be held liable for the conduct of subsidiaries abroad...