A French court last week ordered eBay to pay €38.8m (£30.6m) in damages to the luxury products group LVMH for letting fake versions of its designer bags be sold on the online auction site.

The case was brought on two separate grounds - that eBay's measures to stop counterfeit goods being sold in 2006 were inadequate and it allowed genuine, but unauthorised, sales of certain perfume brands.

The court awarded damages of €16.4m to Louis Vuitton, €19.28m to Christian...