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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.
Brexit PathfinderPLUS
Global | Publication | July 2019
PathfinderPLUS provides consolidated copies of key pieces of UK financial services legislation amended by onshoring statutory instruments made by HM Treasury, making it easier for in-house legal teams to understand the UK regulatory regime once the transition period expires. The key pieces of EU legislation covered by PathfinderPLUS include MiFID II, MiFIR, EMIR and the Benchmark Regulation.
In addition, PathfinderPLUS also provides firms with access to a growing library of level 2 legislation trackers which show how the UK regulators have sought to onshore technical standards from these key pieces of EU legislation.
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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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