3rd Oct 2014 05:33
LONDON (Alliance News) - Lawyers representing BP PLC have called for a retrial or revised judgement after identifying what they claim is a legal mistake in the court ruling made last month that the company acted with gross negligence in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, the Financial Times reported Friday.
In a filing made on Thursday, BP argued Judge Carl Barbier, who is hearing the civil case related to the disaster, relived on evidence which had been excluded from the trial when reaching his findings, the FT said.
BP is to ask Judge Barbier either to revise the ruling to exclude this evidence or to hold a new phase of a trial in order to allow BP to put forward arguments to counter it.
Last month, the court ruled BP acted with gross negligence and wilful misconduct in the disaster, exposing the oil group to penalties of up to USD18 billion.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/276a40b8-3442-11e4-b81c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3ExlJRrD6
By Sam Unsted; [email protected]; @SamUAtAlliance
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