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Lucasfilm did not benefit in any way at Tyburn Film Productions Ltd's expense, counsel said to the appeals court there on 3 December 2025, in part because it already possessed rights over Cushing's likeness and an agreement and consent from the Cushing estate to 'resurrect' him as Grand Moff Tarkin. Tyburn contends it earlier made an agreement with the late actor then, at the time, granting the company a veto over any use of his image prior to his 1994 death. That contract concerns a TV series titled 'Heritage of Horror', which never aired. Tyburn further asserts the deal permits it to effectively 'resurrect' Cushing using stand-ins and CGI to ultimately finish the programme then if the actor were to die whilst filming remained in progress...
Irish telecom operator Eircom’s damages lawsuit against BT Group over a public-sector contract must be carefully managed to trial to deal with confidentiality issues and other matters, a UK judge told the parties today. At the High Court in London today, a judge said Eircom’s damages action against BT over a public-sector contract needs tight case management through to trial to address confidentiality and related concerns. Eircom brought the claim after Ofcom in 2020 penalised BT for its behaviour during a tender. Speaking to both sides, Judge Adam Johnson urged them to resolve any confidentiality flashpoints themselves and signalled he had no wish to step in unless it became unavoidable. He also expressed confidence that parties would do everything possible to keep confidential designations to a minimum, noting this was necessary to maintain control over the conduct of the trial. He framed this as the
The following document is attached: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/274 dated 5 February 2026, revising Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1981, establishing a final anti-dumping levy on imports of ceramic tableware and kitchenware produced in...
Justice Richard Arnold granted AstraZeneca leave to appeal and permitted lorries carrying about 175,000 packs of Glenmark’s generics to move on to wholesalers, provided they did not reach pharmacy shelves while the case continued at any point during those interim proceedings. In this way, Glenmark could keep its first-to-market advantage, while causing only minimal detriment to AstraZeneca should the Court of Appeal later be persuaded to issue an injunction against supply. The judge said this approach maintained the status quo with the least possible prejudice to Glenmark’s position overall. The hearing was arranged at short notice, just days after the High Court refused AstraZeneca an injunction to block the diabetes generic from sale while the court considered whether the patents supporting the branded medicine were valid in law. Glenmark, Generics (UK) Ltd and Teva Pharmaceuticals have each begun proceedings in the UK to set...
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In this issue: Insurance types Insurance Claims Intermediaries and market practice— Brokers Cases tracker Dates for your diary New and updated content Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Insurance: a Lexis®Nexis community Insurance types Marine underwriters could face legal exposure and reputational harm if they insure shipping businesses whose models rely on modern slavery, the International Union of Marine Insurance ( IUMI) cautioned. See: Marine insurers warned of legal risks from modern slavery. Insurance Claims Insurers are encountering a swell of AI-fuelled fraud. Lawyers warn that UK carriers may suffer markedly higher losses as criminals deploy artificial intelligence tools to fabricate or exaggerate claims. See: Insurers face rising tide of claims from AI-driven fraud. Intermediaries and market practice— Brokers Aviva backs an AI broker aiming to reduce underinsurance. The company, which says it is Britain’s first AI-based insurance broker, reports raising almost £1m from investors including Aviva and a venture capital firm in a...
In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Nuclear energy New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Energy law titles Daily and weekly news alerts Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Ofgem announces 2% energy price cap increase for Q4 2025 Ofgem confirmed a 2% rise to the energy price cap for Q4 2025 (1 October–31 December 2025), putting the typical dual-fuel household paying by Direct Debit at £1,755 a year. See: LNB News 27/08/2025 21. Ofgem issues call for input on changes to energy price cap Cf D allowance methodology Ofgem opened a request for views on prospective amendments to the Contracts for Difference ( Cf D) allowance methodology used in the default tariff cap. The...
In this issue: Taxes management and litigation Employment taxes Pensions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Taxes management and litigation HMRC releases Agent Update: Issue 134 The newest edition offers a concise summary of updates and reminders for tax practitioners, featuring: Commentary from Richard Las, Director at HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service, on Elphysic v HMRC [2025] UKUT 236 ( TCC). He welcomed the tribunal’s finding that the mini umbrella company model deployed in these cases is fraudulent, noting that such behaviour distorts fair competition, and confirming HMRC will continue to use both civil and criminal powers to pursue those facilitating it. A reminder to companies with a registered office in Northern Ireland that the extra advantage delivered by the enhanced research and development intensive relief ( ERIS), beyond the benefit available under the research and development expenditure credit ( RDEC), is classed as state aid......
In this issue: Data protection Lex Talk®Information Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection Police officers win application to revive GDPR breach claims ( Farley v Paymaster) Law360 reports that a cohort of police officers may reinstate their collective proceedings after their yearly pension statements were posted to the wrong addresses, with an appeal court in Farley v Paymaster (1836) Ltd (t/a Equiniti) [2025] EWCA Civ 1117 concluding on 22 August 2025 that the mistake infringed their privacy rights. See News Analysis: Police officers win application to revive GDPR breach claims ( Farley v Paymaster). ICO launches consultation on recognised legitimate interest guidance The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) has opened a consultation to obtain comments on its draft guidance concerning the recognised legitimate interest basis for data processing. The guidance considers provisions introduced by the Data ( Use and...
In this issue: Benefits Prohibited conduct Maternity, parents and carers Performance, conduct and discipline Data protection and employee information Bribery, modern slavery, tax evasion and fraud Employment Tribunals Dates for your diary Trackers Employment resources on Lexis+® Lex Talk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Benefits Company cars: advisory fuel rates from 1 September From 1 September 2025, HMRC has updated the advisory fuel rates. A new public charging rate for fully electric cars has also been added. These figures are strictly for use only in situations where employers reimburse staff for business mileage in company cars, or require staff to repay the cost of fuel used for private journeys. See: LNB News 22/08/2025 18. High Court upholds claim for proprietary estoppel based on employer’s assurances that share options would continue...
In this issue: Security Guarantees Real estate finance Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Security Companies House announces Web Filing account access to move to GOV. UK One Login from 13 October 2025 Companies House has confirmed that, from 13 October 2025, customers must use GOV. UK One Login to enter their Web Filing accounts. Existing Web Filing profiles need to be linked to a GOV. UK One Login, and each Web Filing account can be connected to only a single One Login. Where access is shared, each individual must set up their own GOV. UK One Login with a distinct email address. The platform introduces stronger protection through two-factor authentication and will, in time, supersede all other GOV. UK sign-in options, including Government Gateway. To get ready, users should...
In this issue: Social housing Children's social care Governance Public procurement Social care Local government finance Licensing Planning Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Social housing Rent repayment orders and ‘person managing’ ( Global 100 v Ross and others) Global 100 appealed to the Upper Tribunal ( Lands Chamber), challenging a First-tier Tribunal ( FTT) ruling which had allowed the respondent property guardian’s application for rent repayment orders ( RROs) under section 43 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 ( HPA 2016). The London Borough of Haringey had entered into a contract with GGM concerning a council-owned building to provide live-in property guardianship services. In turn, GGM authorised its related company, Global 100 ( G100), to issue licences to live-in guardians, a group that included the respondents to the appeal. No...
Market Standards Trend Report— Trends in UK public M& A in H1 2025 What does the Market Standards Trend Report cover? Click here to get the full report in Shorthand format. In H1 2025, Main Market and AIM companies subject to the Takeover Code (the Code) announced 36 firm offers, 42 possible offers and six notices of formal sale processes and/or strategic reviews; the Market Standards Trend Report examines these in detail. It provides insight on public M& A patterns and what we, together with leading specialists from Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, Bird & Bird, Cleary Gottlieb, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Paul Weiss and White & Case, expect in H2 2025 and thereafter. H2 2025 outlook Deal values and volumes Transaction structures Unrecommended and rival offers Public to private ( P2P) activity Bidder jurisdiction Industry focus Form of...
In this issue: Information technology Internet Data protection Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Telecommunications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Information technology On 26 June 2025, the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs released a draft report urging the European Commission to commence the law‑making process for an EU directive on algorithmic management in the workplace. Dan Cooper, partner, Antonio Michaelides, of counsel, Sam Jungyun Choi and Matthieu Coget, associates, and Matsumoto Ryoko, visiting lawyer, at Covington & Burling LLP, examine the report’s conclusions. See News Analysis: European Parliament Committee Recommends Commission to Propose EU Directive on Algorithmic Management. Internet The Chartered Trading Standards Institute ( CTSI) has issued revised Guidance for Traders on Pricing Practices, applicable from August 2025. Supplanting all earlier editions, the guidance explains how trader obligations are to be interpreted under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ( DMCCA 2024). It...
In this issue: Market Standards Company disclosures, records and registers Equity capital market Directors and company secretaries Joint ventures Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Market Standards Market Standards Trend Report— Trends in UK public M& A in H1 2025 The Market Standards Trend Report delivers a detailed review of UK public M& A deals announced in H1 2025 and shares perspectives on what we, together with our contributors, anticipate for the coming H2 2025 and beyond. Company disclosures, records and registers Companies House announces Web Filing account access to move to GOV. UK One Login from 13 October 2025 From 13 October 2025, Companies House will require customers to access Web Filing via GOV. UK One Login. Existing Web Filing accounts must be linked to One Login, and each account can be associated with only a single login. Each login is strictly personal. Where access is shared, every...
In this issue: Competition and state aid Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Environment IP TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Competition and state aid Competition policy— Commission updates 2024–2029 timeline for competition policy reviews and reforms The Commission has issued a refreshed competition policy roadmap for 2024–2029, spanning antitrust, merger scrutiny, State aid, the DMA, and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation ( FSR). See News Analysis: EU Competition law—daily round-up (25/08/2025). State aid— Commission launches call for evidence on revision of rescue and restructuring State aid guidelines Adopted in July 2014, the guidelines were originally set to lapse on 31 December 2020; however, the Commission prolonged them by three years while running a ‘fitness check’ of the State aid framework, and then extended them again by two years to 31 December 2025. See News...
In this issue: Residential tenancies Disputes and remedies Electronic communications Repairing obligations and dilapidations Additional Property Disputes updates Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary New and updated content Residential tenancies Upper Tribunal rules on the interpretation of 'person managing' an HMO under the Housing Act 2004 ( Next Location Company Ltd v Haringey London Borough Council) In Next Location Company Ltd v Haringey London Borough Council [2025] UKUT 279 ( LC), the Upper Tribunal ( Lands Chamber) upheld the appellant’s challenge to a First-tier Tribunal decision that had affirmed a financial penalty for managing a house in multiple occupation that required a licence. The UT found the FTT failed to sufficiently explain its conclusion that the appellant was the “person managing” for the purposes of section 263 of the Housing Act 2004, and did not adequately justify the level of the penalty. The FTT’s findings were set aside, and the appeal before the FTT was...
In this issue: Leasing property Residential property Easements, rights and covenants Property development Property in Wales Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Leasing property Electronic Communications Code—sharing rights not impacted by PSTIA 2022 In On Tower UK Ltd v AP Wireless II ( UK) Ltd [2025] UKUT 280 ( LC), the Upper Tribunal ( Lands Chamber) ( UT) allowed an appeal on the terms of new telecommunications leases over 12 greenfield sites to be granted to the appellant. The appellant wanted lease provisions permitting the sharing of its apparatus, sites and related rights with prospective customers, whereas the First-tier Tribunal ( FTT) had limited sharing for these ‘ Category B sharers’ to apparatus alone. The UT determined that earlier authorities endorsing wider sharing continue to stand,...
In this issue: Employment issues New content Company law and regulatory Trackers Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Employment issues Option holder denied chance to exercise options entitled to relief based on proprietary estoppel The High Court has ruled on a claim by Mr Andrew Dixon against Global Data plc concerning share options under the company’s unapproved employee share option plan (the Plan). Between January 2006 and 31 December 2014, Mr Dixon worked for Canadean Limited, which became a subsidiary of Global Data after its purchase in September 2010. He received 400,000 options in January 2011 under the Plan. In September 2014, he was notified that his employment would end. After talks with senior management, his termination date was moved to the end of December 2014 on amended terms. The Court found that the then CEO, Mr Simon Pyper, had assured him that his options would “vest in line with...
In this issue: Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Anti-dumping TRA publishes Statement of Essential Facts proposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese biodiesel The Trade Remedies Authority ( TRA) released a Statement of Essential Facts, advising anti-dumping measures on Chinese biodiesel imports. The inquiry was opened on 5 June 2024 after an application from the Renewable Transport Fuels Association on behalf of domestic......
In this issue: UK private actions EU digital markets EU competition policy EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts Caselex UK private actions CAT refuses UK music copyright collective action The CAT handed down its ruling in David Alexander de Horne Rowntree v Performing Right Society Limited and PRS for Music Limited, a bid for a collective proceedings order ( CPO) under s. 47B of the Competition Act 1998 ( CA 1998). Brought for the benefit of PRS songwriter members, the claim took issue with the allocation of so‑called ‘ Black Box’ royalties. The Tribunal declined to make the CPO and, instead, upheld PRS’s applications for strike‑out and summary judgment. Background PRS gathers and pays out royalties for the public performance of musical compositions where the performing rights have been assigned to it. The dispute related to royalties that cannot be matched to the rightful songwriter or publisher (‘ Black Box’...
In this issue: Data protection Retirement options Pension Schemes Bill Taxation The Pensions Regulator Dates for your diary Trackers Data protection GDPR breach doesn’t require proof of third-party access ( Farley v Paymaster (1836) Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 1117) In Farley v Paymaster (1836) Ltd, the Court of Appeal reversed the High Court’s ruling ([2024] EWHC 383 ( KB)) which had struck out data protection claims raised by pension scheme members after the scheme administrator, having failed to update its database, sent annual benefit statements containing personal data to out‑of‑date addresses. The officers pursued claims for data misuse and GDPR breaches, seeking compensation for non‑material harm—namely anxiety, alarm, distress and embarrassment—on the basis that their personal data had been posted to unknown third parties. At first instance, most claims were struck out because the claimants were found not to have a real...
In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency of products Energy for environmental lawyers ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Defra opens consultation on industrial emissions permitting reforms The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra) has begun consulting on plans to modernise England’s environmental permitting regime for industrial emissions. The package aims to foster innovation, adopt agile standards, secure proportionate and coherent regulation, boost regulator effectiveness and efficiency, and deliver a transparent system. Suggested measures include a new registration route for low-risk installations, flexible site permits setting overall emissions caps, and faster approvals for time‑limited technology trials. The proposals reflect the Corry Review’s critique of regulatory...
In this issue: Key R& I law developments Corporate insolvency processes Personal insolvency Restructuring Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals Key R& I law developments Companies House announces Web Filing account access to move to GOV. UK One Login from 13 October 2025 Companies House confirms that from 13 October 2025, access to Web Filing will require GOV. UK One Login. Existing Web Filing accounts must be linked to One Login, and each account can connect to only one Login. Where access is currently shared, every user will need their own GOV. UK One Login set up with a distinct email address. The platform offers stronger protection via two-factor authentication and will ultimately replace all other GOV. UK sign-in routes, including Government Gateway. To prepare, users should ensure their email details are current and create their GOV. UK...
AAA v BBB (a company incorporated and registered in Curaçao) and other companies [2025] EWHC 1647 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment serves as a pointed caution to arbitration practitioners who intend to enlist the English courts: strict and prompt observance of the Civil Procedure Rules is essential. Under CPR 62.4(2), an arbitration claim form must be served within one month of issue, and, as the court emphasised, compliance with that period is jurisdictional. The compressed timetable can cause real difficulties for claimants, notably where, as here, the often protracted steps for service out of the jurisdiction must be navigated, and/or where a claimant also seeks a without notice WWFO and wishes to avoid tipping off the defendant by serving the claim form before the application is determined. Exact adherence to the CPR timeframe is therefore not merely...
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