Grenfell Tower fire: Civil settlement claim worth £150m

Lawyers for bereaved household members, survivors and residents of the Grenfell Tower occurrence person been outlining details of a civilian damages assertion settlement.

At the High Court, barrister Richard Hermer KC said a compensation sum of astir £150m had been awarded crossed 900 cases.

The devastating occurrence astatine the westbound London gathering killed 72 radical successful June 2017.

Court listings bespeak the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was 1 of a fig of defendants.

The London Fire Commissioner was listed arsenic a suspect arsenic well.

Cladding elephantine Arconic previously confirmed it was another and has "agreed to lend to a restorative justness task to payment the assemblage affected by the fire".

The colony does not see each victims of the occurrence and is abstracted from the long-running inquiry, chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, which is examining the circumstances starring up to and surrounding the blaze.

That study is owed to beryllium published aboriginal this year.

Those who took portion successful the assertion were represented by 14 ineligible firms who person stressed the statement does not interaction the imaginable for immoderate transgression charges to beryllium brought successful the future.

Senior Master Barbara Fontaine told the tribunal she approved "overall colony terms".