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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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Mergers Government publishes Enterprise Act 2002 ( Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order relating to the application of public interest considerations in media mergers The Government has released the Enterprise Act 2002 ( Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order ( SI 2025/737) (the Order), accompanied by a memorandum. The Order updates how public interest considerations are applied to media mergers under section 58 of the Enterprise Act 2022, giving effect to the government’s policy choices following its consultation on expanding the UK media mergers regime. This legislation stems from the UK government’s response to its consultation on refreshing the UK media mergers framework, ensuring the regime reflects the outcomes of that process and the intended policy direction......
Mergers The Court of Justice has delivered rulings confirming the General Court’s stance on the Commission’s authorisation of RWE’s purchase of certain E. ON generation assets. It gave judgments in Joined Cases C- 464/23 EVH v Commission, C- 465/23 Stadwerke Leipzig v Commission, C- 467/23 P TEAG v Commission, C- 468/23 P Energie Verbund Dresden v Commission, and C- 470/23 P GGEW v Commission, and in Cases C- 466/23 P Staderke Hamelin Weserbergland v Commission, C- 469/23 P eins energie in Sachsen v Commission, C- 484/23 P Mainova v Commission and C- 485/23 P enercity v Commission, which were appeals against the General Court’s judgments in Cases T- 312/20 and T- 314/20 dismissing actions to annul the Commission’s decision approving RWE’s acquisition of E. ON’s electricity generation assets ( M.8871). The Court of Justice rejected the appeals, either on their merits or as...
In this issue: Financial Sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Financial Sanctions Sanctions ( EU Exit) ( Treasury Debt) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/712: These Regulations amend five UK statutory instruments relating to sanctions. They create additional exceptions to United Nations asset-freezes on designated persons and to UN bans on providing funds to them or for their benefit. The changes enable payments to be made in relation to specified borrowing by, or for, the Treasury (including gilts) and permit the facilitation of those payments. They are made under powers in the Sanctions and Anti- Money Laundering Act 2018 concerning assimilated law, and take effect on 10 July 2025. See: LNB News 20/06/2025 31. AML, CTF &...
Hannah Gurga, director at the ABI, noted on 23 June 2025 that the Whitehall strategy unveiled that day sets out a clear, firm long-term growth plan, a pledge to work closely with business, and the stable regulatory backdrop companies require to prosper. Branded a modern industrial strategy, it pinpoints eight sectors the government judges to hold the greatest scope for economic expansion, spanning advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and financial services such as banking and insurance. Spanning ten years, the blueprint contains policies intended by policymakers to spur investment and help firms in those areas scale. The 160-page document also proposes action to address steep industrial electricity prices, it states, as well as......
Am Trust Speciality Ltd persuaded the Court of Appeal that a prior judge was mistaken in attempting to exclude Endurance Worldwide Insurance Ltd’s correspondence with the law firms from the exercise of determining the breadth of their indemnity policy. Justice Sarah Asplin, writing for a panel of three justices, stated that Peter Mac Donald Eggers KC, who was acting as a deputy High Court judge, effectively 'pre-empted the trial judge' and unduly constrained Am Trust’s position in advance of a five-week trial scheduled to begin in November 2024......
In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Cross border criminal investigations Criminal procedure and evidence Proceeds of crime Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Food safety and hygiene offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Money laundering Other Corporate Crime news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct Protect study reveals Gen Z are the least likely cohort to raise whistleblowing concerns at work about wrongdoing — including health and safety failings, fraud, bullying or harassment — with findings released on 23 June 2025. See News Analysis: Protect study shows Gen Z are less likely to blow the whistle at work. Cross border criminal investigations Law Commission publishes review on international criminal co-operation. The Commission has issued a scoping review into UK arrangements for international co-operation and extradition. Written by Durham University’s Gemma Davies, it flags major concerns with the...
In this issue: Tax treatment Company law and regulatory matters Employee benefit trusts Corporate governance Useful information Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Tax treatment Reminder— Annual share schemes returns filing deadline is 6 July 2025 If a company operates a tax-advantaged or non-tax-advantaged employee share scheme under which UK participants acquire shares or share-based awards, an online annual return must be submitted to HMRC for that scheme. The deadline to file annual share scheme returns for the 2024–25 tax year is 6 July 2025, and a scheme must already be registered with HMRC before a return can be lodged. HMRC has made available templates, guidance and technical notes detailing the information to be included in the return. There is a separate template for each category of scheme, so it is essential to select the...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Oil and gas Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Key developments and materials Access secured to six market-leading energy law titles We are pleased to share that our Lexis+ Legal Research service has been expanded by obtaining an exclusive licence from Globe Law and Business, enabling us to publish six market‑leading energy law titles. We are now in the process of integrating links to these titles within the relevant Practical Guidance across the Energy module on Lexis+......
In this issue: Property management Investigating title Environment, energy and buildings Residential property Statutory compliance Property in Scotland Property in Wales Transferring property Property insolvency Property taxes Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Property management Second edition of RICS service charge standard The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( RICS) has released the second edition of its professional standard on service charges in commercial property. Compulsory for all RICS-accredited practitioners and aimed at UK property managers and occupiers, it seeks to lift standards and foster greater transparency, fairness and consistency in service charge management and administration. The revision addresses key challenges, including issuing budgets and year-end certificates promptly, works to reduce causes of disputes between landlords and tenants, and offers clearer guidance on...
At the start of the first of four days of closing arguments at the High Court in London, Lindsay Lane, acting for Getty, stated that her team would not continue with allegations of direct copyright infringement, and would instead focus on other aspects of the case: trade mark violation, secondary copyright infringement, and licensing matters. The broad and technically intricate case had initially centred on an allegation by Getty, a global image library and licensor, that UK-based Stability AI unlawfully scraped and utilised more than 12 million copyrighted images from Getty’s database to train its Stable Diffusion model......
In this issue: Trespass and adverse possession Enforcing security and property insolvency Lease covenants and obligations Residential tenancies Neighbour and party wall disputes Repairing obligations and dilapidations Service charges Key developments and horizon scanning Easements and covenants Disputes and remedies Additional Property Disputes updates Lex Talk® Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Latest Q& A Trespass and adverse possession The court identified strong grounds to maintain injunctions aimed at curbing hazardous car-cruising against persons unknown ( Birmingham CC and Wolverhampton CC v Persons Unknown). In upholding multiple local authority injunctions against named individuals and persons unknown for car-cruising and connected nuisance, Mr Justice Ritchie set out the correct approach to the continuation of such...
In this issue: Energy and environment Stamp and transfer taxes Anti-avoidance Individuals and income tax VAT Taxes management and litigation Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Energy and environment Supreme Court clarifies tax rules for oil contractors and defines ‘incidental to another use’ ( HMRC v Dolphin Drilling Ltd) In HMRC v Dolphin Drilling [2025] UKSC 24, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Dolphin Drilling’s appeal, confirming that the hire cap on tax deductions applies to the Borgsten Dolphin. The Court decided the vessel’s accommodation services were not ‘incidental to’ its drilling activities, so it was a ‘relevant asset’ for the purposes of section 356LA(3) of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 ( CTA 2010). See News Analysis: Supreme Court clarifies tax rules for oil...
In this issue: Commercial Competition and state aid Corporate Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Energy Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Commercial Commission launches consultation on Standardisation Regulation revision The European Commission has opened a call for evidence within its planned revision of the Standardisation Regulation. The initiative aims to remedy shortcomings found during the Regulation’s evaluation and to hasten the creation of systemic standards that bolster the EU’s resilience alongside its green and digital transitions. Stakeholders are invited to provide their views to inform the further development of the proposal. The consultation closes on 21 July 2025. See: LNB News 25/06/2025 29. Competition and state aid Mergers— Commission unconditionally clears Liberty Media/ Dorna merger after phase II Following a phase II investigation ( M.11539), the Commission granted unconditional clearance for Liberty Media Corporation ( Liberty Media) to acquire Dorna Sports S. L ( Dorna Sports). Liberty Media and Dorna...
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Authorisation, approval and supervision Prudential requirements Risk management and controls Financial crime and sanctions Consumer protection Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of capital markets Dispute resolution for financial services lawyers Regulation of derivatives Sustainable finance and ESG Banks and mutuals Investment funds and asset management EU Mi FID II Consumer credit, mortgage and home finance Regulation of insurance Payment services and systems Financial stability Fintech and cryptoassets Lex Talk®Financial Services: a Lexis®Nexis community Financial Services Enforcement Database Daily and weekly news alerts Intraday news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary UK, EU and international regulators and...
Morningstar DBRS, the credit ratings agency, noted in an insurance market bulletin that ships passing through the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf—key corridors for energy shipments—are encountering sharply higher insurance premiums. However, the agency cautioned that such increases would barely mitigate sector losses should large claims arise, potentially impacting multiple classes of cover across the market, and spilling over into diverse lines of business......
In this issue: Public procurement Governance Education Social housing Children's social care Social care Healthcare Local government finance Environmental law and climate change Planning Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Public procurement Damages are an adequate remedy in a procurement dispute despite no sufficiently serious breach ( Millbrook Healthcare Ltd v Devon County Council) In Millbrook Healthcare Ltd v Devon County Council, the Technology and Construction Court ( TCC) determined that, at the interim stage of a procurement claim, whether a breach is “sufficiently serious” is not directly relevant to the question of adequacy of damages; damages can still be the proper remedy. The TCC reviewed established authorities confirming that damages are available in procurement challenges only where the contracting authority’s breach is “sufficiently serious”, a test grounded in EU law. The issue was recently examined in Braceurself v NHS England, where the TCC held that the “sufficiently serious” assessment turns on the nature and...
In this issue: JCT contracts Building safety Payment Litigation Procurement in construction Infrastructure projects Tax Construction industry news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Construction trackers JCT contracts JCT releases Target Cost Contract family On 25 June 2025, the JCT formally unveiled its comprehensive Target Cost Contract suite. The set comprises, namely, the Target Cost Contract 2024, Target Cost Sub- Contract Agreement and Conditions 2024, Target Cost Contract Guide 2024, and also Target Cost Sub- Contract Guide 2024. Alongside the Target Cost family, the JCT also issued its separate Tendering Practice Note 2024. This family is specifically intended for projects where the Employer seeks to motivate the Contractor by agreeing a Target Cost, with arrangements for both sides to split jointly any savings or overspends (i.e. a pain and gain mechanism). Copies can be purchased via the JCT online store directly. Reference versions will soon appear on Lexis+...
In this issue: National Security and Investment Act 2021 Security Aviation finance Real estate finance Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Structured products and securitisation Technology in banking & finance transactions Regulation for banking lawyers Claims and remedies Sanctions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Useful information National Security and Investment Act 2021 Government unveils consultation to refine the NSIA foreign direct investment framework as part of the Modern Industrial Strategy. The Department for Business Trade has issued a policy paper outlining the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, touching on the function of competition policy and the activity of the Competition and Markets Authority. Within it, the government confirms a 12-week consultation to revise the list of 17 sensitive sectors where...
In this issue: Private children Public children Financial provision International children New content Updated content Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Private children Appeal against finding of fact ( Re: A ( A Child) ( Appeal: Finding of Rape)) In Re: A ( A Child) ( Appeal: Finding of Rape) [2025] EWHC 1500 ( Fam), the High Court considered a father’s appeal against findings of fact, centred on an allegation of rape. The case involved two children, with the paternity of the younger in dispute. The mother maintained the relationship ended following an alleged rape, which she said took place two months before the conception of the child at the heart of the disagreement. The court below held that the father was the child’s biological parent and also concluded that he raped the mother while she was asleep on 30...
In this issue: New technologies Internet Data protection Media Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Lex Talk®International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information New technologies Misuse of AI in court and the consequences ( Ayinde v Haringey & Al- Haroun v Qatar National Bank) In Ayinde v Haringey London Borough Council; Al- Haroun v Qatar National Bank QPSC [2025] EWHC 1383 ( Admin), the Divisional Court considered the fallout from improper deployment of AI in litigation. Triggered by two references concerning proven or suspected use of generative AI by lawyers, the court relied on its inherent powers to police duties owed to the court (the Hamid jurisdiction). The judgment offers essential direction to practitioners on their obligations when using AI, both to the court and to...
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This Practice Note This Practice Note reviews mechanisms used in settling litigation. A Tomlin order consists of a consent order paired with a schedule. It operates to stay proceedings on terms that have been agreed. The provisions contained in the schedule may remain confidential. This Practice Note describes the scope of confidentiality attaching to the schedule and sets out how it differs from a standard consent order. Sample wording for a Tomlin order is included, alongside links to precedents, as well as guidance on court approval. It also addresses varying, setting aside and enforcing a Tomlin order, including the considerations the court will take into account when handling applications for each. Further guidance is provided on interpreting and applying the relevant provisions of the CPR; however, some courts and divisions impose very specific requirements for both drafting and approval, and for approaching the schedule and confidentiality issues. Accordingly, you must consider the particular rules and court guide provisions in the forum where your claim is proceeding when drawing up the Tomlin order...
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