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Which? said they would be paid fees as the case progressed, getting additional payments if it was successful - but they would not be getting a percentage of any damages.

A decision by judges at the Court of Appeal has blown open an ongoing saga into hidden commission payments, with buyers possibly in line for payouts totalling billions of pounds.

However, lawyers say this could further delay compensation which should be paid to car buyers who may not have given their informed consent for the commission payments.

Pistiwan Jameel, of Birmingham, referred to migrants as "pigeons" and "sticks", and used his contacts with gangs in France to arrange journeys for clients, while collecting payments in the UK.

He turned its blue ticks - which previously denoted that a high-profile account was bona fide - into a subscription model, and tied advertising payments to "verified" users to the number of interactions they receive.