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

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.

A group of lenders won a partial reprieve in a pivotal UK car finance case, after the country’s top court sought to rein in the spiraling saga that’s set to cost banks billions in consumer payouts.