{
  "id": 7566048,
  "title": "City firm behind BHP litigation faces legal action over unpaid barrister fee claims",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/city-firm-behind-bhp-litigation-faces-legal-action-over-unpaid",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-15T13:47:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/city-firm-behind-bhp-litigation-faces-legal-action-over-unpaid-barrister-fee-claims/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A barrister for the law firm behind the record BHP litigation has alleged in a £2.6m lawsuit that the firm failed to pay him and now faces a counterclaim. Ibar McCarthy, a barrister at Normanton Chambers, alleged City law firm Pogust Goodhead did not pay him for his work on the £36bn litigation against mining giant [...]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}