BHP Hit With £189M Legal Costs Bill Over Dam Collapse Case

By Sophia Dourou ( December 17, 2025, 6:01 PM GMT) -- Lawyers for more than 640,000 individuals argued at court Wednesday that BHP should pay out £189 million ($254 million) of their legal costs after the mining giant was found liable for a dam collapse that triggered Brazil's worst environmental disaster....

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