Panguna’s landowners have appointed class action lawyer Stewart Levitt to represent them in possible litigation.
The sheer environmental degradation and considerable loss of life that followed Rio Tinto’s running of Bougainville’s Panguna gold and copper mine must rank it as one of the world’s greatest mining debacles.its majority shareholding to the Papua New Guinea and Bougainville governments, and 25 years after the end of the civil war sparked by the mine, Panguna’s landowners want Rio Tinto’s culpability for all it unleashed to be tested in London’s courts.to represent them in possible litigation.
Levitt, a Sydney-based litigator , was in Arawa this month to meet the landowners over the Panguna matter, which is still in its earliest stages. The intention is to target Rio over “personal injury suffered, intergenerational trauma, damage to property and any violation of human rights”. Levitt has self-funded himself to date, but doesn’t expect to face difficulties securing a litigation funder. Talks with a potential UK legal partner are apparently well advanced.
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