In these days of turmoil, it's sometimes difficult to keep one's mind to the same subject for a longer time - especially for those who, like many of the contributors to this blog, are juggling worries for parents in a different country or childcare or finishing a dissertation with ongoing administrative and teaching tasks.
This said, it should not escape our readers' attention that yesterday the German Bundesgerichtshof likely injected considerable momentum in the Dieselgate redress movement by establishing that VolksWagen is in principle required to accept that disappointed buyers of a "defeat" product cheating on emissions can return their car and get a reimbursement and damages - even as the company will be able to charge them something for use of the vehicle.
This could well trigger a wave of settlements as it is estimated that roughly 60 000 cases are still pending in Germany. An interesting question is whether the judgment will also have effects beyond the German borders, inspiring other courts and regulators on how to approach some of the legal hurdles that have swamped court proceedings so far. What a start of the week!
