In a partial win for lenders, the court rules they're not liable for hidden commission payments in car finance schemes.

Any future motor finance compensation scheme for consumers in Britain would be substantially smaller than the payment protection insurance (PPI) redress scheme that cost banks tens of billions of pounds,

Britain's highest court Friday largely overturned a lower court's ruling that certain car finance agreements were unlawful, a decision likely to bring a sigh of relief among lenders and limit the scale of compensation payments.