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Court of Appeal grants appeal in Brazil dam case

In one of the largest group claims in English legal history, the Court of Appeal has granted an appeal to reopen a £5 billion class action by 200,000 claimants against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP over a dam rupture behind Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.





Three Court of Appeal judges have now granted permission for an appeal, saying they believe it has a “real prospect of success”.

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