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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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On 1 July 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland ( Central Bank) imposed a €36,273 penalty on Swilly Mulroy Credit Union ( SMCU) for infringements of the Criminal Justice ( Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 ( CJ( MLTF) A 2010) and the Credit Union Act 1997 ( CUA 1997), spanning seven and a half years... Facts of the case SMCU has been authorised as a credit union since 1985. It acknowledged seven prescribed contraventions linked to anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing ( AML/ CFT) and deficiencies in risk management, resolved under the relatively new Undisputed Facts Settlement Process, which included a more extensive summary of the principal facts set out below... The breaches were uncovered by the Central Bank in 2022 during an on‑site inspection carried out by its Anti- Money Laundering Division. The Central Bank then opened an enforcement...
Competition Appeal Tribunal grants group litigation orders The Competition Appeal Tribunal has approved group litigation orders for a £2.7bn action led by University of East Anglia scholar Andreas Stephan and a separate £1.3bn claim led by consumer campaigner Robert Hammond. In its written ruling, the panel rejected Amazon’s contention that defects in funding structures and in the loss-assessment methodologies adopted by the two class representatives barred the proceedings. It also dismissed Amazon’s assertion that the returns due to the litigation funder supporting Hammond were 'wildly excessive' and 'indefensibly high'. The tribunal further held that Stephan’s approach offered an 'adequate, initial blueprint to trial', and that shortcomings identified in Hammond’s model could be addressed by drawing on overlapping elements of the academic’s methodology. Accordingly, the decision states: ' We find that the Hammond action, on the basis that it will be heard together with the...
Greater Glasgow Health Board v Multiplex [2025] CSOH 56 What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling prominently underscores how the PL( S) A 1973 operates to prevent an affected party from recovering damages for defective works. It also stresses that those affected must promptly pinpoint the earliest date on which loss arose from a relevant contractual breach, so that proceedings are commenced within the prescribed period, namely where: mere ignorance of the contractual breach by the affected party is insufficient only unequivocal proof of positive acts by the party responsible for the defects, which induced the affected party not to bring a claim, will prolong the prescribed period any interruption of the prescriptive period excludes any time after the affected party could, with reasonable diligence, have identified the defects What was the background? In 2009, the parties entered into an NEC3...
On 23 July 2025, the UK Supreme Court overturned the convictions of former City traders Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo. The justices concluded that procedural missteps by the trial judges rendered the outcomes unsafe. Their trenchant remarks about judges exceeding their remit, together with unease over how effectively the criminal appeal system corrects legal errors, have shifted attention onto the judiciary just as the government weighs scrapping jury trials in fraud cases altogether... Nick Brett, a partner at Brett Wilson, warned the ruling will only heighten concerns about further miscarriages of justice if the role of the jury is curtailed. Criminal defence lawyers have been unsettled since a major independent review, released on 9 July 2025, recommended that serious and complex fraud matters be determined by a judge sitting alone. The plan is designed to reduce the record backlog of 77,000 cases in the crown...
Clarity & Calm Post- PACCAR ( Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd and another company v Alex Neill Class Representative Ltd and other cases) Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd and another company v Alex Neill Class Representative Ltd and other cases [2025] EWCA Civ 841 What are the practical implications of this case? After the Supreme Court’s ruling in PACCAR, many LFAs were revised to incorporate equivalent (or comparable) multiples-based terms to those scrutinised in the Sony appeals. Those appeals were put on hold following the previous government’s introduction of the Litigation Funding Agreements ( Enforceability) Bill (the Bill), with the stay later lifted when the current government signalled it would not re-introduce the Bill until the Civil Justice Council’s ( CJC) review of litigation funding in the UK had concluded. In the interim, funders have awaited a determination on the...
Wuhu Ruyi Xingo Investment Partnership v European Topshoro S.a.r.l [2025] SGCA 32 What are the practical implications of this case? Unless Orders are ordinarily directed at parties who have failed to comply with court directions (for instance, to give disclosure), particularly where the court views the breach as intentional. The fall-out from ignoring an Unless Order is deliberately stringent, potentially resulting in pleadings being struck out or the claim being dismissed entirely. This decision underscores that Unless Orders are to be observed to the letter as mechanisms to secure obedience to court orders, and that the court will not allow parties to indulge in tactical manoeuvres by selectively ignoring Unless Orders. The judgment further clarifies that these principles equally govern matters involving international arbitration and the New York Convention. The court rejected the proposition that this amounts to a novel basis to resist...
State aid The Commission has cleared, under the EU State aid rules, the following measures: an Italian scheme (valued at €41.5m) in favour of Ephos S.r.l., an Italian SME, to establish a first-of-its-kind manufacturing plant for glass-based photonic chips in the Milan area—see further, Midday Express a Czech measure (amounting to €60m annually) to compensate the postal operator Czech Post for the provision of a public service obligation in Czechia over 2025–2029—see further, Midday Express NOTE— For all live State aid decisions and live formal State aid investigations, see further, EU State aid decisions—ongoing cases tracker Antitrust The Commission has published the public version of its decision in Food delivery services ( AT.40795), by which it imposed fines totalling €329m on Delivery Hero and Glovo for their participation in a cartel in the online food delivery sector—see further,...
Mergers The CMA has confirmed that the completed purchase by Kpler Holding SA of Spire Global Inc.’s maritime data business does not meet the threshold for a merger investigation under the Enterprise Act 2002; see the case page. NOTE— For all current mergers before the CMA, see the UK mergers—ongoing cases tracker. Upcoming dates— For forthcoming UK competition developments, see the UK Competition calendar. ......
Known as OFSI, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has revised its UK financial sanctions guidance to incorporate...
Treasury Committee hearing on financial stability At a Treasury Committee session on financial stability, the Bank of England ( Bo E) governor warned they would mount a protest if the Treasury presses too far with its deregulation aims. In the Mansion House speech on 15 July 2025, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out proposed regulatory changes, including plans concerning ring‑fencing. Bailey said they would begin by setting out their stance plainly, in public and, if desired, before the committee. He added that this would be the starting point. He did not outline what further steps might follow, nor how they could next use what Members of Parliament describe as their wide‑ranging powers to issue recommendations, including to the Treasury. Nonetheless, he marked a clear red line around the ring‑fencing regime, which keeps retail bank accounts separate from investment banking within groups. Bailey objected to......
MLex understands that the ballot, held on morning of 24 July 2025, sailed through, with 26 Member States in support and only Hungary objecting. The adopted measures consolidate two earlier tariff bundles: one aimed at 50% US levies on steel and aluminium, and......
What was the background to HMRC’s consultation? In the 2024 Autumn Budget, the Chancellor set out her intention to bring inheritance tax into scope for pension funds that remain within an individual’s pension at death. While pension entitlements have, as a rule, sat outside the inheritance tax net, there has long been anxiety that pensions could be deployed as an estate planning device in ways that amount to inheritance tax avoidance. This anxiety sharpened following the relaxation of pension tax rules under the Finance Act 2004 ( FA 2004), which took effect in April 2006. From that point, the fear was that savers might shift assets into their pension and simply preserve the pot for their beneficiaries, particularly because FA 2004 removed any compulsion to secure an annuity. To counteract such outcomes, FA 2004 initially incorporated several limiting...
Huk- Coburg Haftplicht- Unterstützungs- Kasse Kraftfahrender Beamter Deutschlands A. G. In Coburg v Check24 Vergleichsportal GMBH and others, Case C-697/23, ECLI: EU: C:2025:338 What are the practical implications of this case? The Court of Justice’s strict formalism in construing the notions of ‘competitor’ and ‘comparative advertising’ within Article 2(c) of Directive 2006/114/ EC can be regarded as pulling against core aims of permissible ‘comparative advertising’: enabling an objective presentation of the merits of comparable products and invigorating competition between suppliers for consumers’ benefit (recital 6), while guarding against misleading comparative advertising (see, for example, recitals 2, 3, 7 and 8 of Directive 2006/114/ EC). When Directive 2006/114/ EC took effect, online comparison service platforms like Check24 were not common in the market, and typically only the provider promoted its own products. Yet, from the consumer’s viewpoint, such comparison platforms perform the very same role as...
On 14 July 2025, the European Commission ( EC) released its final Guidelines, explaining in detail how it interprets Article 28(1) of the EU DSA. This followed a period of public consultation on draft Guidelines that began in May 2025. They outline the steps online platforms should take to deliver a high standard of privacy, safety and security for children, and they also clearly offer insight into the EC’s approach to online child safety and the measures it expects from providers. Legislative background Article 28(1) of the EU DSA is the key clause aimed at safeguarding minors online. It obliges providers of online platforms that minors can access to put in place ‘appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety, and security of minors’. Because the provision is broadly framed, the Guidelines, issued under Article 28(4) of the EU DSA, explain what...
In this issue: Cases and decisions Insurance types UK regulation EU regulation Cases tracker Dates for your diary New and updated content Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Insurance: a Lexis®Nexis community Cases and decisions National House Building Council v Peabody Trust The Court of Appeal ( Civil Division) rejected an appeal concerning the correct interpretation of Option 1 under an NHBC policy, in proceedings between Peabody (claimant/respondent) and NHBC (defendant/appellant). Under the policy, Peabody is insured where they ‘have to pay more’ than otherwise because the contractor becomes insolvent or commits fraud prior to practical completion. The court held that the cause of action arose not on the contractor’s ( Vantage) insolvency, but at the point the claimant actually ‘had to pay more’ on account of that insolvency. It rejected NHBC’s contention that...
Sponsor licence revocation— Court of Appeal confirms no global assessment required In R ( Prestwick Care) v SSHD [2025] EWCA Civ 184 (11 March 2025), the Court of Appeal examined whether the Secretary of State for the Home Department ( SSHD) must carry out a global assessment of the consequences of revocation for the sponsor, its staff, service users and the wider community, when hearing appeals from the High Court’s decisions in R ( Prestwick Care Ltd) v SSHD [2023] EWHC 3193 ( Admin) and R ( Supporting Care Ltd) v SSHD [2024] EWHC 68 ( Admin). In Prestwick, the deputy judge dismissed the judicial review, holding there was no obligation to undertake a global assessment; by contrast, in Supporting Care the deputy judge decided such a duty existed and had not been fulfilled. The Court of Appeal, at para [2], held that the...
In this issue: WTO Trade in goods Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content WTO WTO arbitrators issue award in IP dispute between EU and China The WTO has released the arbitration award in dispute DS611, China— Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, bringing to a close appeal proceedings launched by the EU under Article 25 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding. The case relates to China’s use of anti‑suit injunctions ( ASIs) in litigation over standard‑essential patents and an alleged unwritten ASI policy. The appeal was heard under the Multi‑ Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement, after panel proceedings were suspended in April 2025. The arbitrators assessed the panel’s determinations and considered whether China’s measures aligned with obligations in the Agreement on Trade‑ Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, including Articles 1.1, 28.1, 28.2, 41.1, 44.1, 63.1 and 63.3. See: LNB News...
In this issue: Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Constitutional and administrative law Equality and human rights Judicial review Information law Public procurement Subsidy control and State aid Other Public Law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit highlights Cabinet Office publishes evaluation of Common Frameworks The Cabinet Office has released a review of the Common Frameworks, assessing how the UK Government and the devolved administrations collaborate after Brexit. Drawing on proforma data across 28 frameworks and six case studies, the review concluded that, although the frameworks support effective intergovernmental collaboration, there is scope to enhance cross-framework alignment, stakeholder participation and central guidance. It also observed that many processes within the frameworks remain untried, with limited examples of formal...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Brexit Contamination and pollution Energy efficiency of products Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental enforcement and prosecutions Environmental information Environmental taxes, reliefs and incentives ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Sources of environmental law ( UK, EU, international) Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments and materials The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025 Simon Colvin (partner), Luke Davies- Foo (solicitor) and Melissa Dixon (apprentice solicitor) at Pinsent Masons explore the environmental ramifications of the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025, covering consequences for the electricity market and clean power, pathways to...
Mergers Commission probes a possible breach of Article 14(1) EUMR in the 2024 KKR/ Net Co merger The Commission has opened an investigation into whether KKR supplied inaccurate or misleading information to it during the Commission’s 2024 merger review regarding KKR’s purchase of Net Co ( M.12099). Background KKR, based in the US, is a global investment firm that provides alternative asset management, as well as capital markets and insurance solutions......
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