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Motor Finance Redress: The Way Ahead
On August 1, 2025, the UK Supreme Court delivered its long-awaited judgment in Hopcraft v Close Brothers Limited and on 3 August the FCA announced it would consult on a redress scheme.
Concurrences Review: The Vertical Block Exemption
Global | Publication | November 2022
Miranda Cole from our Brussels office has contributed to the Concurrences N° 4-2022 on the new EU Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (EU VBER). It entered into force on 1 June 2022. In her article she discusses vertical agreements containing parity obligations or MFNs, relating to online intermediaries and platform services. The article covers both the EU VBER and the new UK Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Order (VABEO).
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Germany delivers landmark copyright ruling against OpenAI: What it means for AI and IP
The Regional Court of Munich (LG München I) has issued a landmark judgment in GEMA v OpenAI (Case No. 42 O 14139/24), holding that the use of copyrighted song lyrics for training generative AI models without a licence violates German copyright law.
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Clarifying charterers’ redelivery obligations under BARECON 2001: Songa Product and Chemical Tankers III AS v Kairos Shipping II LLC
Songa Product and Chemical Tankers III AS v Kairos Shipping II LLC [2025] EWCA Civ 1227 (07 October 2025) has clarified the extent of the obligation on the Charterer to redeliver a vessel following the termination of a Barecon 2001 charter and of the Owner’s right to require it to be redelivered to a port “convenient to them”.
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