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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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Introduction The Independent Water Commission’s Final Report lays out a bold, ambitious blueprint to overhaul governance, regulation, and strategic planning across the water sector in England and Wales. It proposes sweeping structural shifts: establishing integrated national regulators, reshaping the system-planning remit, and dramatically streamlining the industry’s planning frameworks. The report prioritises long-term resilience, cross-sector collaboration, and aligning environmental and growth ambitions through a National Water Strategy. It presses for statutory resilience benchmarks, mandatory smart metering, a national social tariff, and the consolidation of nine separate water plans into two core frameworks. Recognising the shortcomings of today’s fragmented regime, the Commission urges targeted legislative change, stronger consumer safeguards, and a more coherent model for infrastructure delivery, with the goal of building a sustainable, efficient, and transparent water sector equipped to meet the challenges of the next 25...
European ESMA publishes principles for third-party risk supervision On 12 June 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority ( ESMA) issued its principles for overseeing third-party risk. These fourteen principles target exposures arising from reliance on external service providers by regulated firms that are supervised. They set out a shared supervisory blueprint enabling national competent authorities to detect, evaluate and oversee third-party risks in a consistent manner. ESMA launches selection of consolidated tape provider for shares and ETFs On 20 June 2025, ESMA opened the first selection procedure to appoint a consolidated tape provider ( CTP) for shares and exchange-traded funds ( ETFs). The CTP aggregates pre-trade and post-trade data supplied by contributors to improve transparency and the efficiency of markets. Bringing together activity across venues in this manner is intended to help market participants obtain accurate and timely data across relevant markets......
The Commission has unveiled a standard form that AI makers falling under the EU AI Act must use to set out the data fed into their systems. Yet the reach of one of its most contentious obligations is still not, as yet, defined. Under the EU AI Act, creators of general‑purpose models, including Open AI, Anthropic and Google, must release a ‘sufficiently detailed summary’ describing the training data that were used to train their models. What counts as ‘sufficiently detailed’ follows a compulsory template issued by the EU executive on 24 July 2025. Models are built on vast datasets, for which information is often scarce or incomplete in practice. The summary aims to help parties with a legitimate interest—such as data subjects and rights holders—assert their rights under EU law. But a fiercely disputed disclosure item in the...
On 11 August 2025, the ABI announced that insurers had issued settlements to assist nearly 9,000 households to recover from subsidence, which arises when the ground beneath a property drops in dry conditions. The data indicates the average payment per claim was about £17,300. The ABI added it has refined its data gathering, broadening the area from which statistics are sourced, making comparisons with the earlier periods more challenging......
Mergers Following a phase I review, the Commission approved a joint venture established by Robert Bosch Gmb H and Mitsubishi Corporation ( M.12041)—see further, Midday Express The Commission has received notifications for: CCP Investments/ EFMS/ NEOGOV ( M.12126) (simplified merger procedure) Swiss Life Holding/ APG/ Itinere ( M.12088) (simplified merger procedure) Velobank. Bank Handlowy ( M.12073) (simplified merger procedure) Note— For every ongoing merger investigation before the Commission, see further, EU mergers—ongoing cases tracker State aid The application has been made public in Case C-329/25 SAS, a Romanian reference seeking clarity on whether illegality interest is payable where the Member State complied with Article 108(3) TFEU’s prior notification and granted the aid only after...
Domestic Central Bank of Ireland updates the Authorisation process for Retail Intermediaries On 20 June 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland ( CBI) refreshed the material on its website relating to the authorisation pathway for retail intermediaries. Central Bank of Ireland’s options and national discretions On 27 June 2025, the CBI amended its positions on options and national discretions under Regulation ( EU) No 575/2013 concerning prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms, and under Directive ( EU) 2013/36 on access to the business of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms. Commencement order signed on Access to Cash legislation On 16 June 2025, a commencement order was made for the Finance ( Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Act 2025 ( Access to Cash Act). The Access to Cash Act came into effect on 30 June...
MSERJ v CARTS Recurso Especial No. 2163463- SP (2024/0300443-0) What are the practical implications of this case? Brazilian Insolvency Law ( Law No. 11.101/2005) does not preclude arbitration in insolvency settings. Article 6, §9 expressly states that a filing for judicial reorganisation or bankruptcy does not authorise the judicial administrator to ignore an arbitration agreement or to halt the initiation of arbitral proceedings. In keeping with this, the STJ has affirmed the enforceability of arbitration clauses after filing (see REsp 1.953.212- RJ; Ag Int no CC 203888- SP). Nonetheless, in this decision—and in others such as Ag Int no CC 208899- SP—the court has delineated the boundary between the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals and that of reorganisation courts. The STJ concluded that, although set-off of pre-petition claims is not prohibited in judicial reorganisation, whether such set-off is admissible cannot be examined by arbitral...
Gold Reserve Inc v Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Supremo Tribunal de Justiça de Portugal, Proc. 108/24.7YRLSB. S1 What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling clarifies the SCJ’s stance on sovereign immunity in the context of recognising foreign arbitral awards and delineates how narrowly the public policy exception under the NYC should be construed. It held that a state forfeits jurisdictional immunity once it agrees to submit to suit, thereby waiving that prerogative as a matter of consent. In reaching that view, the court relied on the unilateral offer to arbitrate in the relevant Venezuela– Canada BIT, with its express reference to the NYC, as well as the parties’ subsequent settlement agreement, which likewise included an arbitration clause between them. By contrast, the judgment sheds scant light on immunity from execution; as Gold Reserve Inc did not put this in issue, the court...
What is the background to this consultation? OFSI, a unit within HM Treasury, is tasked with making sure the UK’s financial sanctions are understood, put into practice, and enforced. On 22 July 2025 it launched a consultation seeking views on proposed adjustments to the civil enforcement process for financial sanctions. These proposals follow mounting criticism of how the UK enforces sanctions. Spotlight on Corruption’s report last year, All Bark and No Bite, contended that weak enforcement undermines the UK’s efforts against economic crime. Moreover, at a Commons Foreign Affairs Committee session in November last year, Giles Thompson, OFSI’s head, accepted the need for more robust enforcement. The consultation paper itself notes that the impetus includes recognition that OFSI could make enforcement processes clearer and more transparent, and make resolving enforcement cases quicker and easier. That backdrop informs the current...
Changes on the horizon— AI to be in scope and hints of a more pro-consumer balance The UK Law Commission has unveiled a fresh project to reassess the framework for civil liability arising from defective products in the UK, a field presently set by the Consumer Protection Act 1987 ( CPA 1987). Long anticipated, this move follows sustained debate about the UK’s post- Brexit trajectory. In particular, attention has focused on the extensive, pro-consumer reform of the EU regime—on which the UK’s CPA 1987 is founded—first unveiled in September 2022 and now enshrined in Directive ( EU) 2024/2853, the Revised EU Product Liability Directive (the Revised EU PLD). Observers have expected such a step for some time, especially as the EU has pressed ahead with its revisions, prompting calls for clarity on the UK’s direction......
Elsewhere, the UK Supreme Court granted administrators fresh powers to recover proceeds from fraud. In a separate ruling, the court limited the remit and reach of the US Department of Justice ( DOJ). Here, Law360 unpacks the biggest corporate crime and civil fraud cases of the past year in detail. UK Supreme Court overturns traders' rate-rigging convictions In July 2025, the UK Supreme Court set aside the criminal convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, years after the traders were found guilty of conspiring to manipulate the benchmark interest rates Libor and Euribor. The justices unanimously quashed the former City traders’ convictions after deciding that serious procedural errors by the presiding judges in their trials years earlier had rendered the verdicts unsafe. The landmark ruling follows high-profile legal challenges over several years in which the men argued they were scapegoated amid public anger over banker...
Private actions The CAT has released two High Court of Justice orders, dated 9 June 2025, in The Scottish Ministers & Others v Servier Laboratories Limited & Others and The Welsh Ministers & Others v Servier Laboratories Limited & Others. These damages claims allege infringements of Article 101/ Chapter I and Article 102/ Chapter II. The orders move the proceedings to the CAT—see further, order ( The Scottish Ministers & Others) and order ( The Welsh Ministers & Others). NOTE— For all live private actions in the UK that have been made public, see further, UK private actions—ongoing cases tracker. Subsidy control The Subsidy Advice Unit has issued its final report offering advice to UK Research and Innovation on its proposed DRIVE35 Scale- Up Grants scheme—see further, final report. NOTE— For all decisions referred under the Subsidy Advice Unit under the Subsidy Control Act 2022, see...
Aon noted a brief window of opportunity for insurance purchasers to secure cover at a favourable price in what is presently a 'soft' market. In such conditions, capacity is higher, with numerous insurers prepared to provide cover and compete on price. A 'hard' market typically follows significant sector losses, and is marked by insurers exiting the market or adding exclusions. Both moves result in substantially higher premiums for policyholders. Aon warned that the existing soft market could prove to be short-lived in fact......
SPP response to MHCLG consultation on LGPS fairness reforms On 7 August 2025, the SPP cautioned that rolling out a suite of measures aimed at enhancing fairness across the LGPS may prove disruptive, with the extent of impact shaped by the timing of implementation. This formed part of its response to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government ( MHCLG) consultation, which is considering changes to LGPS benefits to tackle discrimination and narrow the gender pensions gap. The SPP also highlighted that these proposals arrive as the LGPS is already progressing other initiatives, such as: Delivering the age discrimination remedy Converting member records into a format compatible with new online pension dashboards Given this overlap, the SPP indicated that disruption remains a real possibility depending on when each change is introduced......
( Sayers and another v Dixon and another [2025] EWHC 1886 ( Ch)) What are the practical implications of this case? Mr Dixon created the Do Ts without any particular creditor in view. It was only six years later that HMRC issued a bankruptcy petition seeking £627,302 for unpaid self-assessment tax, penalties and surcharges; at the time of execution, HMRC was not within his contemplation. Following his bankruptcy in August 2017, he attempted to rely on the Do Ts, asserting that he had shed all assets and income; that everything received since September 2010 was his wife’s or sums loaned by her; and that he had no means. The long interval between the Do Ts and his bankruptcy did not assist him. The judgment demonstrates that IA 1986, s 423 can, in principle, be used to attack transactions concluded many years earlier if the...
Strict time limits and thresholds for section 68 challenges— RTI & Rusal v OWH RTI Ltd & another v OWH SE i L [2025] EWHC 1945 ( Comm) (28 July 2025) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling starkly underlines to arbitration specialists the unyielding stance the English courts adopt towards the statutory time bars on award challenges under the AA 1996. Under AA 1996, s 70(3), there is a hard 28-day window to bring a s 68 challenge, and the court made plain that any extension will be entertained only in exceptional circumstances. The judgment also confirms that ad hoc procedural steps before the tribunal—such as efforts to re-open proceedings or revisit particular points—do not pause the statutory clock When advising clients contemplating a challenge, treat the award date as day zero, calculate the 28-day limit and act within that...
financialright claims GMBH v Burford German Funding LLC , No. 24-929, D Del Funding agreement In 2017, financialright claims GMBH ( FRC), a German company, struck a deal with Delaware-based Burford German Funding LLC. Under the arrangement, Burford agreed to bankroll FRC’s purchase and pursuit of antitrust claims by lorry drivers against certain truck makers, with FRC to remit a share of any litigation recoveries to Burford, as contemplated by the funding agreement. Burford further suggested that FRC instruct the law firm Hausfeld for the case. FRC retained Hausfeld, later discovering that Hausfeld holds an ownership interest in Burford and thus stood to benefit personally from any recoveries in the proceedings—conduct which FRC asserts is prohibited under German law......
Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and 80 others ( No 2) [2025] UKPC 34 The facts Heard on appeal from Bermuda, the dispute centred in essence on the amalgamation of two companies— Jardine Strategic Ltd ( Jardine Strategic) and JMH Bermuda Ltd—the successor entity that was created as a result of that transaction, Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd (the Company), and those Jardine Strategic shareholders who themselves opposed the amalgamation at a special general meeting. The companies formed part of the Jardine Matheson group, a conglomerate with stakes in numerous portfolio companies active particularly in both China and South- East Asia. Its ultimate holding company, a Bermudian entity, was quoted on the London Stock Exchange and also maintained secondary quotations on the Singapore and Bermuda public exchanges. Pursuant to section 106 of Bermuda’s Companies Act 1981, any...
Astor Asset Management 3 Ltdv Pliego [2025] EWCA Civ 1060 What are the practical implications of this case? The principal practical implications of the case are as follows, in practice: Parties should recognise that, although the obligation of full and frank disclosure is cast as a duty to reveal material facts, it also extends to contested allegations Those applying for discharge should avoid both a scattergun tactic and pursuing trivial points......
Bridging Finance Inc (acting by its receiver/manager Pricewaterhouse Coopers Inc) v Lyons [2025] EWHC 1694 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? Lyons offers clear direction on the meaning of ‘carrying on business in England and Wales’ when seeking to establish jurisdiction for a bankruptcy petition. In particular, it confirms that: you must be able to distinctly pinpoint activities undertaken by the debtor in their personal capacity, as opposed to those carried out in a corporate capacity (as in Re Brauch ( A Debtor) Ex parte Britannic Securities & Investments Ltd [1978] Ch 316) (para [50] of Lyons)......
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