43With regard to that close connection, the Court has stated that, in order for judgments to be regarded as contradictory, it is not sufficient that there be a divergence in the outcome of the dispute, but that divergence must also arise in the context of the same situation of fact and law (see Freeport, paragraph 40, and Painer, paragraph 79).
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