HT-2022-000304 - [2025] EWHC 1771 (TCC)

Fecha: 11-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1771 (TCC)

Case No: HT-2022-000304

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT (KBD)

Royal Courts of Justice

Rolls Building

London, EC4A 1NL

Date: 11 July 2025

Before :

Mrs Justice O'Farrell DBE

Between :

MUNICÍPIO DE MARIANA

(and the Claimants identified in the Schedules to the Claim Forms)

Claimant

- and -

(1) BHP GROUP (UK) LIMITED

(formerly BHP GROUP PLC)

(2) BHP GROUP LIMITED

Defendants

Alain Choo Choy KC, Robert Marven KC, Sophie Holcombe, Jonathan McDonagh, Russell Hopkins and Anisa Kassamali (instructed by Pogust Goodhead, a trading name of PGMBM Law Ltd) for the Claimants

Shaheed Fatima KC, Victoria Windle KC, Nicholas Sloboda KC, Oliver Butler and Michael Kotrly (instructed by Slaughter and May) for the Defendants

Hearing dates: 2^nd and 3^rd July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 12:00 noon on 11 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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