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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 Nationally significant infrastructure projects Housing Marine planning Heritage and natural environment Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Nationally significant infrastructure projects Infrastructure Consent ( Compulsory Acquisition) ( Wales) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/691: This instrument outlines, among other matters, the pre-application steps to be undertaken before submitting to the Welsh Ministers any infrastructure consent application that includes a compulsory acquisition request. It comes into force on 15 December 2025. See: LNB News 17/06/2025 3. Infrastructure Consent ( Examination and Decision) ( Procedure) ( Wales) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/692: These Regulations provide for the examining authority, arrangements for preparing and carrying out the examination of applications, and the processes that follow the examination. They also set out additional and supplementary procedures where the proposed infrastructure consent order would authorise compulsory acquisition of land or rights over land. They take effect on 15 December 2025. See: LNB News...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Work sponsorship: sponsors Business, investment, and non-sponsored work Students EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Please note that our Immigration calendar highlights key upcoming developments of relevance to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Immigration ( Exemption from Control) ( Amendment) Order 2025 The Immigration ( Exemption from Control) ( Amendment) Order 2025, SI 2025/663, revises the Immigration ( Exemption from Control) Order 1972, SI 1972/1613, by introducing further specified classes of person—namely qualifying employees of the Taipei Representative Office and their family members. Under SI 1972/1613, art 4, specified classes are excused from provisions of the...
In this issue: Post-market Disputes and regulatory enforcement Medical devices Pharmaceuticals—regulatory framework Data protection and life sciences Research and development Borderline products Advertising of medicines Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Post-market MHRA launches landmark post-market surveillance changes for medical devices in Great Britain. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ( MHRA) has put into effect the Medical Devices ( Post-market Surveillance Requirements) ( Amendment) ( Great Britain) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/1368, representing the first substantial revision of PMS rules for medical devices in Great Britain. See: LNB News 17/06/2025 16. Disputes and regulatory enforcement UPC supports sales prohibition on kits infringing 10x Genomics patent Law360: The Unified Patent Court’s ( UPC) Local Düsseldorf Division has held that Curio Bioscience’s Seeker Spatial Mapping Kits infringe patents owned by 10x...
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Authorisation, approval and supervision Investigations, enforcement and discipline Prudential requirements Risk management and controls Financial crime and sanctions Regulation of capital markets Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products ( PRIIPs) Dispute resolution for financial services lawyers Regulation of derivatives Sustainable finance and ESG EU Mi FID II Consumer credit, mortgage and home finance Investment funds and asset management Payment services and systems 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 UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Bo E publishes PRA’s David Bailey speech outlining flexible regulatory plans to foster innovation and growth The Bank of England ( Bo E) has...
In this issue: UK private actions UK competition policy EU antitrust EU competition policy EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Caselex UK private actions High Court dismisses toy manufacturer’s damages claim but finds MGA abused dominant position and made unjustified patent threats The High Court handed down its ruling in Cabo Concepts Ltd & Licence World Ltd v MGA Entertainment ( UK) Ltd & MGA Entertainment, Inc [2025] EWHC 1451 ( Ch), a damages action brought by Cabo contending that a competing toy maker violated competition rules and issued baseless patent infringement threats to block the debut of a rival product. The court concluded MGA Entertainment had abused a dominant position and had made unwarranted patent infringement threats connected to Cabo ‘ Worldeez’ toy launch. It nevertheless threw out Cabo’s damages claim...
In a report released on 16 June 2025, the NAO said the Cabinet Office has, over time, struggled to hold My CSP to account when outcomes dipped beneath the agreed service standards. It also said the ministerial office had failed to incentivise improvements through its contract with My CSP. According to the report, the NAO began its inquiry after complaints regarding the Civil Service pension scheme rose from 3,335 in the financial year ending in 2017 to 4,780 in the financial year ending in 2024. It also reported that members of the scheme had expressed concern about the service they had received. Since 2016, My CSP has managed the retirement savings arrangements for nearly 1.7 million members of the scheme under a contract with the government that costs £238m. The report states that My CSP agreed to a series of key service levels within the...
In a ruling dated 16 June 2025, the UPC determined that Curio Bioscience Inc.’s array offering ‘literally’ mirrors the core elements of a patent held by 10x Genomics Inc. for detecting nucleic acids in tissue samples. The court dismissed Curio Bioscience’s assertions that its product sat outside the patent’s scope, reasoning that the mode of manufacture and certain technical distinctions did not change the product’s capacity to infringe. The judges said the contested embodiment makes literal use of the claim’s teaching, and concluded that every necessary design feature appears in Curio Bioscience’s array... 10x Genomics’ patent concerns a method for detecting and analysing nucleic acids, including DNA, within a tissue sample. According to the patent, the technology enables detailed mapping of genetic information inside tissues, with potential application in fields such as cancer research. 10x Genomics contended that Curio’s kits, which rely on...
In this issue: Trade in goods Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts Latest Q& A Trade in goods Further tariff delay ‘highly likely’, US Treasury Secretary Bessent says Appearing before a House committee on 11 June 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it is ‘highly likely’ the Trump administration will prolong the suspension of the ‘ Liberation Day’ tariffs unveiled in April 2025 beyond the initial 90-day moratorium, for those countries engaged in talks with the US. See News Analysis: Further tariff delay ‘highly likely’, US Treasury Secretary Bessent says. White House clarifies US tariff rate on China is 55 per cent MLex reports that, on 11 June 2024, the White House clarified the tariff rate on Chinese imports is 55 per cent, after a post by President Donald Trump about the latest London deal had caused uncertainty. See News Analysis: White House clarifies US tariff rate on China is 55%......
In this issue: Companies and corporation tax Capital gains tax VAT Taxes management and litigation Employment taxes International Devolved taxes Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Companies and corporation tax FTT confirms consortium relief ownership proportion based on collective entitlement of link companies ( Eastern Power Networks plc v HMRC) As noted in last week’s Tax weekly highlights, in Eastern Power Networks [2025] UKFTT 703 ( TC), the First-tier Tax Tribunal ( FTT) determined that, when calculating the ownership proportion for consortium relief, the rights of multiple link companies must be considered together, rather than by totalling separate entitlements. It also concluded that a corporate structure established to increase consortium relief entitlements amounted to a scheme with a main purpose of obtaining a tax...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Brexit Air pollution and climate change Contamination and environmental pollution Energy efficiency and buildings Product energy efficiency Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental assessment Environmental information Environmental taxes, reliefs and incentives ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content United Kingdom Environmental Law Association ( UKELA) Annual Conference Key developments and materials Spending Review 2025— Key Energy and Environment announcements On 11 June 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out to Parliament the government’s Spending Review 2025 ( SR25). This News Analysis draws out...
In this issue: Risk & Compliance forecast Data protection Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Risk & Compliance forecast New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 17 June 2025 Our latest Risk & Compliance forecast (as at 17 June 2025) is now live and available. This month we also cover, among other developments: (1) the Data ( Use and Access) Bill advancing through Parliament; (2) the Crime and Policing Bill’s report stage and third reading set for 17–18 June; (3) the LSB’s sharpened guidance on meeting the new economic crime regulatory objective; and (4) FATF-approved changes designed to enhance the detection of financial crimes. See News Analysis: New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 17 June 2025. Data protection Data ( Use and Access) Bill passes through Parliament and is expected to receive Royal Assent on 19 June...
Judicial Review— High Court quashes decision refusing recusal application ( R ( Ladybill) v Sheffield Magistrates’ Court & Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) R (on the application of Ladybill Ltd) v Sheffield Magistrates Court [2025] EWHC 1169 ( Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? Appreciating the ramifications of this judgment should aid practitioners who advise clients on recusal applications in matters where judicial bias may potentially be in issue or suspected. The High Court observed that allegations of actual bias directed at judicial decisions in this jurisdiction are uncommon, and rarely feature in challenges to judicial decision‑making. Far more frequently, the complaint concerns apparent bias, instead of allegations of actual prejudice. The governing test for apparent bias comes from Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67: ‘whether the fair minded and informed observer, having considered the facts, would consider that there was a real...
In this issue: New technologies Information technology Internet Data protection Media Advertising marketing and sponsorship Lex Talk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information New technologies European Commission pushes on with AI models Code of Practice despite possible law delay MLex: The European Commission is moving forward to complete a Code of Practice for general-purpose AI ( GPAI) model developers, envisioned as a central compliance tool for companies such as Open AI, Anthropic and Microsoft, and set for use from August 2025, even as formal discussions about pausing the underpinning EU AI Act continue. The Code, the GPAI guidelines, a template for disclosing training datasets, and related guidance are due by the first week of July 2025. Major AI firms are being...
In this issue: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act Prospectus Regulations Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act DBT publish second progress report on Economic Crime Act implementation The Department for Business and Trade has issued its second yearly update on delivering the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. It records the making of over 20 statutory instruments and highlights fresh Companies House enforcement, including 82,600 changes to registered office addresses and 419 penalty warning notices. Milestones are mapped through to end-2026, with compulsory identity verification from autumn 2025 and limited partnership reforms concluded by the end of 2026. Using enhanced powers, Companies House says it has identified £50m of UK property linked to organised crime. See: LNB News 17/06/2025...
Clara superfund Clara superfund announced, in a statement, that 730 members of the Church Mission Society Pension Scheme are set to transfer under its stewardship, representing its first transaction with a not-for-profit employer and, overall, the fourth time assets have been transferred to the superfund. Positioned as a novel financial consolidation model, the superfund brings multiple DB schemes together so they can be run at a lower overall cost. Clara noted the agreement is the inaugural application of its ‘connected covenant structure’, enabling an ongoing guarantee from the Church Mission Society as the original sponsor, complemented by capital provided by the superfund. This covenant offers extra, long-term protection for members and bolsters the financial protections in place as the scheme advances towards an insured buy-out, Clara said. The organisation further anticipates that pension schemes with assets of up to £50bn could be...
In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Data protection International Sale and supply of goods Supplier management Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Advertising, marketing and sponsorship ASA rulings—18 June 2025 A single complaint reached the Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA) about an email sent by Koi Footwear Ltd that was said to glamourise drug use. The ASA agreed with the concern and upheld the complaint. See: LNB News 18/06/2025 7. Data protection Data ( Use and Access) Bill to receive Royal Assent on 19 June 2025 The Data ( Use and Access) Bill ( DUA) is set to obtain Royal Assent and become an Act of Parliament. This follows the parliamentary review concluding on 11 June 2025, bringing to a close almost eight months of...
In this issue: Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Constitutional and administrative law Judicial Review Equality and Human Rights Public procurement State security and intelligence Information Law 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 The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office ( FCDO) confirmed that the UK, the European Commission and Spain have reached a political accord on core elements of Gibraltar’s post‑ Brexit arrangements. The deal introduces dual controls at Gibraltar’s ports: Spain will undertake Schengen checks, while UK and Gibraltar authorities retain existing controls, and all checks between Gibraltar and La Línea will be lifted. It also establishes a customs union between Gibraltar and the EU,...
In this issue: Corporate Governance New content HMRC Manuals tracker Useful information Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Corporate Governance Lion Finance Group PLC faces investor dissent over executive pay At this week’s AGM, Lion Finance Group PLC encountered pushback from investors on executive pay, with more than 22% voting against the Directors’ Remuneration Policy; nonetheless, the motion passed with a majority of votes cast overall. Under the refreshed Policy, the CEO’s base pay rises by 35% and will be held at that level for 2025–27; the company stresses this uplift trails both the average employee increase and profit expansion since 2022, and will stay fixed for the policy term. The updated policy also introduces a potential annual variable award capped at 200% of salary, reserved for extraordinary performance and triggered only when total...
In this issue: Status and worker categories Immigration Protected characteristics Prohibited conduct (discrimination etc) Data protection and employee information Employment Tribunals Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Employment resources on Lexis+® Lex Talk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Status and worker categories SI 2025/660—the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education ( Transfer of Functions etc) Act 2025 ( Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025—delivers consequential changes to the Education ( Student Support) Regulations 2011, SI 2011/1986; the Trade Union ( Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/328; the Apprenticeships ( Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/1310; and the Trade Union ( Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/143, following the commencement of the Institute for...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Electricity Code Modifications Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Nuclear energy 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 Spending Review 2025— Key Energy and Environment announcements On 11 June 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, laid before Parliament the government’s Spending Review 2025 ( SR25). This News Analysis spotlights the SR25 announcements and pledges most pertinent to the energy and environment sectors. See News Analysis: Spending Review 2025— Key Energy and Environment announcements. Access secured to six market-leading energy law titles We are pleased to confirm that we have recently broadened our Lexis+ Legal...
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