Thursday, 28 November 2019

Grenfell Cladding Firm Has Spent £30m Defending Its Role In Disaster


The Grenfell Tower cladding manufacturer has spent £30m on lawyers and advisers defending its role in the disaster in an outlay that dwarfs the amount spent on the panels a public inquiry has determined were the main cause of fire spread. Arconic has been spending at a rate of up to £50,000 a day on lawyers and other advisers. As well as the public inquiry, it is embroiled in a criminal investigation in the UK with detectives investigating possible corporate manslaughter and manslaughter cases, a civil suit in the US for wrongful death. Read more on the Guardian website.

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