By Maria Ward-Brennan After a landmark ruling last month in the motor finance test case, the Court of Appeal has hit Close Brothers with yet another blow after refusing its application to take its case to the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal handed down a decision in late October, siding with the consumer. It ruled that the lenders did not receive consent from customers about the amount of commission they charged. The case involved three merged claims against the merchant banking group Close Brothers and South African Firstrand Bank. The claims went through separate regional courts around En…