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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.
One deal, two jurisdictions: Interpreting competing jurisdiction clauses
Global | Publication | September 2019
The Court of Appeal has provided comfort to the derivatives market by giving a wide, commercial interpretation to an exclusive English jurisdiction clause in the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement. In BNP Paribas SA v Trattamento Rifiuti Metropolitani SPA [2019] EWCA Civ 768, it upheld a decision that a competing jurisdiction clause in another related contract did not override the English jurisdiction clause.
The judgment also helpfully brings together the relevant case law on how to interpret competing jurisdiction clauses. To read the full article, please register here.
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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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