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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.
UN Global Compact: Canada’s Modern Slavery Legislation
A Look Back at the First Two Years of Reporting and Considerations for the Year Ahead
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Canada | Publication | October 2025
As Canadian businesses move into the third year of mandatory modern slavery reporting, staying on top of the shifting compliance landscape has never been more critical. Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) is proud to sponsor the Business and Human Rights Workshop, hosted by the UN Global Compact Network Canada. This event will provide attendees with practical, hands-on guidance for strengthening their human rights due diligence frameworks.
In preparation for this essential workshop, we spoke with NRF to discuss key trends from the first two years of reporting under Canada's Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. We covered common pitfalls companies should avoid, and shared practical actions organizations can take to demonstrate meaningful progress.
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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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