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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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What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling deepens the existing jurisprudence, equipping advisers to identify when an injured worker’s conduct remains sufficiently connected to their job, even after they have finished their paid shift. It offers a crisp survey of the leading authorities on that point and will aid both claimant and defence practitioners in guiding clients on potential exposure. On costs, the judgment neatly distils the doctrine of Sanderson orders—namely, the circumstances in which an unsuccessful defendant should meet the costs of a successful defendant, together with the claimant’s costs incurred in pursuing the losing claim. The judge undertook a thorough evaluation of all factors bearing on the grant of such relief. As a result, the decision provides a practical and illuminating example of the applicable principles. Both sides will find the analysis relevant when advising on...
In this issue: Public sector information Data protection Cybersecurity Lex Talk®Information Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Public sector information Supreme Court confirms cumulative approach to public interest exemptions under FIA 2000 In Department for Business and Trade v The Information Commissioner [2025] UKSC 27, the UK Supreme Court ruled that where material engages multiple qualified exemptions ( QEs) under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ( FIA 2000), a public authority may weigh the aggregate public interest in upholding all relevant exemptions. The Court rejected an ‘independent approach’, which would have compelled a discrete public interest assessment for each exemption. Dr Lewis Graham of Christ’s College Cambridge, together with the Lexis Nexis Public Law team, reflect on what this means in practice. See News Analysis: Supreme Court confirms cumulative approach to public...
In this issue: Arbitration in England & Wales International arbitration Treaty arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other arbitration and ADR-related news and developments Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Arbitration in England & Wales The Arbitration Act 2025 ( Commencement) Regulations 2025 The Act revises the Arbitration Act 1996 on how arbitral proceedings are conducted and overseen in England and Wales, and in Northern Ireland. It adds rules on the governing law of arbitration agreements, arbitrators’ disclosure duties, emergency arbitrators, and the court’s supportive powers in aid of arbitration. Having received Royal Assent in February 2025, it will take full effect on 1 August 2025, pursuant to the Arbitration Act 2025 ( Commencement) Regulations 2025 ( SI 2025/905 ( C. 41)). The Regulations bring the reforms into operation across these jurisdictions. See the SI dated 16th July 2025 and available...
Digital markets CMA proposes to designate Apple and Google with SMS for mobile platforms under DMCCA 2024 The CMA has initiated consultations on its proposed determinations to classify Apple and Google as holding strategic market status ( SMS) in respect of their individual mobile platforms under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ( DMCCA 2024). On a provisional basis, the CMA has concluded that both Apple and Google possess substantial, entrenched power across mobile operating systems, native app distribution, and mobile browsers, and that each company holds a position of strategic importance within the UK digital economy......
From that point, most sponsored employees will be required to occupy at least graduate-level roles and receive a minimum salary of £41,700 a year. Over 180 occupations in total will be struck from the sponsorship-eligible list, and visa applications for care workers will cease entirely. In addition, lower-skilled migrants will no longer be permitted to bring their dependants to the UK under these rules. Solicitors noted that these measures—the opening salvo in a suite of immigration reforms aimed at cutting national dependence on lower-skilled labour—are set to affect healthcare and hospitality most acutely, with the risk of medium-term staffing gaps. Sponsored 'skilled workers'—who make up most of Britain’s work visa holders—may remain in post for now. However, the government cautioned in an official update to its immigration rules that this carve-out during the shift to the new system 'will not be in place...
Bradshaw and others v United Kingdom, Application no. 15653/22 Background In 2019 and 2020, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, alongside Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, issued reports addressing Russian meddling in the 2014 Scottish independence vote, the 2016 EU membership referendum, and the 2019 UK general election. While still serving as MPs at that time, the applicants were unsuccessful in formally seeking judicial review of the government’s refusal to order an independent inquiry, contending, among other grounds, that this contravened the investigative duty implicit in Article 3 of Protocol 1. Judgment The ECt HR concluded, unanimously, that Article 3 of Protocol 1 had not been breached whatsoever. Reasons for the judgment The ECt HR considered there to be no settled consensus about precisely what......
With just under twelve months until the new rules on solvent exit planning take effect, many insurers are still at the very early phases of preparation. Securing meaningful progress over summer 2025 will be vital to meet the deadline. Solvent exit analysis Under the new regime, insurers will need to create and maintain a solvent exit analysis, setting out measures for an orderly solvent exit as part of business-as-usual. This requirement applies regardless of the prospect of a solvent exit. The PRA expects a firm’s solvent exit analysis to: set out solvent exit options, e.g. loss portfolio transfers, Part VII transfers, disposals or run‑offs, that the firm could undertake include suitable solvent exit indicators to signal when a solvent exit should be triggered, and evaluate the likelihood of successful delivery address possible barriers and risks, both market‑wide and firm‑specific, to executing a solvent exit; such barriers and risks should be...
The County Court system is 'dysfunctional' and has 'failed' adequately to deliver civil justice across England and Wales, was concluded in a report by the House of Commons Justice Committee dated 21 July 2025. Andy Slaughter, who chairs the cross-party committee, stated it is imperative that improving the County Court becomes a key priority for the Ministry of Justice, given the unacceptable delays affecting almost all categories of claims. The Labour Party MP said the inefficiencies and holdups stem from years of underfunding. ' Justice delayed is justice denied', Slaughter observed. The committee urged that a review of the County Court system should commence by spring 2026, describing its condition as dire and demanding urgent attention. It concluded the coronavirus ( COVID-19) pandemic has added to the delays. He warned that delays are now increasing across most claim types......
When concluded, these standards will establish the compliance framework in full across the whole of the EU and are anticipated to deliver significant changes for all AML-obliged entities. The RTS will centre on four core areas of AML compliance: risk profile evaluation, the choice of entities to be directly overseen by the newly created AMLA, customer due diligence, and a new penalties regime. On 6 March 2025, the EBA opened a consultation on the draft RTS, during which stakeholders could submit feedback. It closed on 6 June 2025, and it is unclear whether, and in what manner, the EBA will reflect the input from stakeholders received and act on it in shaping the definitive RTS ( EBA launches consultation on AML/ CFT RTS, LNB News 06/03/2025 41). Regulatory steps After the AML package was published, the European Commission sent the EBA a call for advice. Such a call is a...
R v Hayes; R v Palombo [2025] UKSC 29 Background The appellants, Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, challenged their convictions for conspiracy to defraud, in August 2015 and March 2019 respectively. The allegation was that, together with others, they sought to influence crucial benchmark interest rates underpinning financial markets: for Mr Hayes, the London Inter‑bank Offered Rate ( LIBOR); and for Mr Palombo, the Euro Inter‑bank Offered Rate ( EURIBOR). A benchmark is an interest rate designed to mirror the prevailing cost of borrowing within a market, providing an indicative snapshot at a given moment. Such a rate serves as a reference for numerous transactions, among them financial derivatives and similar arrangements. Contributing banks were required to provide the rate at which that institution (for LIBOR) – or a prime bank (for EURIBOR) – could obtain funds at a particular time. The...
The General Court has partly allowed a challenge to the Commission’s decision on Credit Suisse’s involvement in a spot-trading cartel, cutting the penalty after identifying mistakes in its calculation... It delivered its judgment in Case T-84/22, UBS Group and Others v Commission, brought against the infringement decision that found Credit Suisse had taken part in the foreign exchange spot-trading cartel ( AT.40135). The General Court upheld the action in part... Background On 2 December 2021, the Commission announced that five banks had participated in a cartel in the Spot Foreign Exchange ( Forex) market for G10 currencies, contrary to Article 101 TFEU: Barclays RBS HSBC UBS Credit Suisse UBS also took part in the cartel but obtained full immunity from fines under the Commission’s leniency policy......
The conclusive edition of the General- Purpose AI ( GPAI) Code of Practice appeared on 10 July 2025. It succeeds three prior drafts, issued in November 2024, December 2024, and March 2025. Pending scrutiny and validation by the European Commission and Member States, the 10 July text is treated as definitive in advance of the GPAI provisions of Regulation ( EU) 2024/1689 (the EU AI Act) taking effect on 2 August 2025. Commission guidance clarifying key notions linked to GPAI models, released on 18 July 2025, sits alongside the Code of Practice as an accompaniment. This Code is a voluntary instrument, supported by the EU AI Office and produced by a consortium of academics and industry participants, intended to assist GPAI model providers in fulfilling the corresponding obligations of the EU AI Act (see: LNB News 18/07/2025 40, LNB News...
Department for Business and Trade ( Respondent) v The Information Commissioner ( Appellant) [2025] UKSC 27 Background FIA 2000 grants a right to access information held by public bodies, save where the Act’s exemptions apply. On 15 November 2017, journalist Mr Montague asked the Department of Business and Trade (‘the Department’) for material about the Trade Working Groups established to undertake preliminary work on post‑ Brexit trade agreements. The Department released some material on 8 February 2018 and added more on 25 March 2019 (while the Commissioner’s investigation was ongoing), but retained the rest, invoking FIA 2000, s 27, concerning international relations, and s 35(1)(a) concerning the development of government policy. Those provisions are ‘qualified exemptions’, as they are governed by the public interest balancing exercise in FIA 2000, s 2(2)(b), which states that ‘in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in...
Lee Broadbent, a Greater Manchester Police officer who earlier won an employment tribunal against the Police Federation of England and Wales for age discrimination, has issued a formal legal notice to the Home Secretary calling for the repeal of section 64 of the Police Act 1996. That clause, which replaced the 1919 prohibition on police unions, obliges police officers to depend exclusively on the Police Federation, an organisation that is not a recognised union and prohibits industrial action. ' Police officers are the only group of public servants who are legally barred from joining a trade union', Broadbent said in a statement......
High Court ruling on the ‘ Notting Hill Shopping Bag’ trade mark The High Court concluded that a competitor trading on Portobello Road had not come up with tote bag wording independently, yet Natasha Courtenay- Smith was unable to pursue infringement because exclusive rights in the ‘ Notting Hill Shopping Bag’ lapsed in 2023 when the company that held them was voluntarily wound up. Judge Francesca Kaye explained that the Crown had not been asked to renew the trade mark, had neither sought renewal itself nor authorised any other party to do so, and had not disposed of or vested the mark in anyone before it expired. Consequently, there was no trade mark capable of being revested or restored to the company when a restoration order was later granted. The decision records that Courtenay- Smith incorporated The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Co Ltd in 2010 and,...
Background The Bill sits within the government’s wider drive to devolve power and bolster decision-making at local and regional levels. This programme was trailed in the King’s Speech and taken forward through the English Devolution White Paper of December 2024, which proposed handing substantial planning and infrastructure responsibilities to newly designated strategic authorities. The White Paper pledged to reinstate strategic planning across England, after years without a cross-boundary framework beyond London. It further set out intentions to finish the devolution map, establish a new layer of ‘strategic authorities’, and provide them with more coherent powers for planning, infrastructure, housing and growth. Key planning provisions Strategic authorities and tiers of devolution The Bill introduces a new class of Strategic Authority, spanning Combined authorities, Combined County authorities ( CCAs), the Greater London Authority, and specified unitary authorities where designated. These are arranged into three tiers: ...
Background to the making of this Strategy The ‘ Strategy’ sets out a decade-long programme to boost private investment and build UK industries for the years ahead. Inside the Strategy, the government presents the shift to net zero as the defining economic chance of this century, stressing that any path to macroeconomic resilience or lasting expansion must rest on a robust route to net zero. The impetus for the Strategy is unambiguous. The incoming Labour administration cites past governments’ shortcomings as both overly prescriptive and insufficiently interventionist. According to the government, the UK has lacked the agility required to react to market shifts. The Strategy prioritises delivery and is anchored in the hurdles and prospects of the coming ten years. In line with recent economic and regulatory developments, businesses are bringing environmental measurement and reduction to the forefront of growth...
VMA Services Limited v Project One London Limited [2025] EWHC 1815 ( TCC) What are the practical implications of this case? The decision underscores that where an employer (or main contractor) does not issue a compliant Payment or Pay Less Notice, the contractor (or sub‑contractor) becomes entitled to the notified sum — namely the figure stated in the payee’s default payment notice — and the adjudicator may direct immediate payment of that amount, without need for a further adjudication. Paying the notified sum is a mandatory, immediate legal obligation of payment. A true valuation adjudication cannot be used by the employer (or main contractor) to challenge liability or quantum until the notified sum has first been paid in full. Accordingly, serving valid Payment or Pay Less Notices is essential to preserve the right to contest payment figures through the adjudication process and to avoid...
Mergers UMG/ Downtown referred to phase II The Commission has escalated to phase II its review of Universal Music Group’s ( UMG) planned takeover of Downtown Music Holdings ( Downtown) ( M.11956). The case reached the Commission via a referral under Article 22(1) EUMR first requested by the Netherlands and subsequently supported by Austria. UMG operates worldwide across recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual media. Downtown is an international music business delivering artist and label ( A& L) solutions to independent record companies and to artists, notably via its FUGA distribution platform......
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