{"id":19639,"date":"2023-06-19T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/?p=19639"},"modified":"2023-06-19T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:40:08","slug":"london-court-orders-uk-firm-to-pay-1-million-to-beirut-blast-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/london-court-orders-uk-firm-to-pay-1-million-to-beirut-blast-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"London court orders UK firm to pay $1 million to Beirut blast victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A London court has ordered a British-registered company to pay more than 800,000 GBP ($1 million) in damages to victims of the 2020 blast at Beirut&#8217;s port, a lawyer\u2019s group in Lebanon said on Monday, in the first such verdict over the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Jan. 31, the High Court in London found Savaro Ltd liable for death, personal injury and property damage in a case brought by the Beirut Bar Association on behalf of blast victims.<br>On Monday, the court ordered Savaro to pay 100,000 GBP plus interest each to three relatives of deceased victims, and slightly over 500,000 GBP to a wounded woman, according to a statement by the&nbsp;Association.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London court has ordered a British-registered company to pay more than 800,000 GBP ($1 million) in damages to victims of the 2020 blast at Beirut&#8217;s port, a lawyer\u2019s group in Lebanon said on Monday, in the first such verdict over the explosion. On Jan. 31, the High Court in London found Savaro Ltd liable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1178],"class_list":["post-19639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-45","tag-beirut-blast"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albayanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}