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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: Banking & Finance case round-up Sustainable finance and ESG round-up Lending Security Sustainable finance Debt capital markets New and updated content Useful information Banking & Finance case round-up Banking & Finance— May 2025 case round-up For an overview of the Banking & Finance cases we flagged in May 2025, see: Banking & Finance— May 2025 case round-up. Sustainable finance and ESG round-up Sustainable finance and ESG monthly round-up—2 June 2025 This Finance Group monthly round-up features: (1) the Financial Markets Standards Board issuing a Statement of Good Practice on governance of sustainability‑linked products, (2) the IFRS Foundation announcing the International Sustainability Standards Board’s proposed amendments to IFRS S2 on greenhouse gas emissions disclosures and (3) the International Organisation of Securities Commissions releasing a report on the sustainable bond market. For further details, see News Analysis:...
Scatola and others v HMRC [2025] UKUT 156 ( TCC) The appeals serve as lead cases brought by three unrelated pairs of taxpayers, each of whom adopted a marketed SDLT avoidance scheme designed to eliminate SDLT on buying a dwelling, akin to the arrangements examined and rejected in Project Blue [2018] UKSC 30. The planning comprised a sub-sale to V Ltd, a Guernsey special purpose vehicle, followed by the grant back to the taxpayers of a 999-year lease. Three SDLT returns were submitted: return A, covering the taxpayers’ acquisition of the freehold, showed no SDLT as sub-sale relief was claimed return B, filed by V Ltd for its freehold purchase, reported no SDLT via Finance Act 2003 section 71A relief (alternative property finance) return C, concerning the taxpayers’ lease acquisition, again showed no SDLT, relying on FA 2003, s 71A HMRC then commenced an enquiry into the...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Emergency procedures Private children International children Lex Talk®Family: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content Useful information Practice and procedure Capacity, conduct and costs ( R (an the application of Aina Khan Law Ltd) v The Legal Ombudsman) In R (an the application of Aina Khan Law Ltd) v The Legal Ombudsman [2025] EWHC 1319 ( Admin), the High Court considered a judicial review brought by the firm. The firm had begun acting for the interested party, the wife, after her husband issued family proceedings in September 2020. From the outset there were signs of mental health difficulties and ongoing medication. During September/ October 2020 the firm sought input from counsel and the wife’s psychiatrist about her capacity. In November 2020 a...
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In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it operates Sponsored work Work sponsorship: sponsors EU law rights and the EU Settlement Scheme International Lex Talk®Immigration: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar outlines significant upcoming changes for business immigration advisers. CATJ publishes Court of Appeal Civil Division Guide 2025 The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ( CATJ) has released the 2025 Court of Appeal ( Civil Division) Guide, revising core procedures and expectations for civil appeals. It brings in compulsory e-filing for professional users, launches an automatic mediation referral scheme for designated case categories, and sets out detailed direction on bundle preparation and skeleton arguments. The guide seeks to make appeal workflows more efficient and to encourage...
Antitrust AG issues opinion concerning collective rights body’s failure to consider hotel occupancy rates when setting royalty rates not inherently abusive Advocate General Szpunar has issued his opinion in Case C‑161/24 OSA, a reference from the Czech Republic asking whether a collective management organisation’s omission to take hotel room occupancy into account when setting copyright royalties for licensed works amounts to an abuse of a dominant position under Article 102 TFEU... Background In December 2019, the Czech Competition Authority ( CCA) concluded that OSA, the Czech collective management organisation for musical and other artistic works, had abused its dominant position in the market for copyright licensing. From 2008 to 2014, OSA applied flat-rate royalties to hotel operators for the use of audio and audiovisual works made available through in-room TV and radio devices, without reflecting actual room occupancy. The CCA determined that this tariff model imposed unfair...
In this issue: Arbitration in England & Wales International arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other arbitration and ADR-related news and developments Lex Talk®Arbitration: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Arbitration in England & Wales CAFI - Commodity & Freight Integrators DMCC v GTCS Trading DMCC The significant ruling in CAFI - Commodity & Freight Integrators DMCC v GTCS Trading DMCC [2025] EWHC 1350 ( Comm) has been issued. The Commercial Court upheld the buyer’s ( CAFI) challenges to a GAFTA Appeal Award under ss 67 (substantive jurisdiction), 68 (serious procedural irregularity) and 69 (appeal on a point of law) of the English Arbitration Act 1996. GTCS, as seller of a shipment of Russian milling wheat, had pursued arbitration seeking damages against CAFI for alleged breaches of two contracts. That claim failed at first instance but succeeded before the GAFTA Appeal Board. The court concluded that the Appeal Board was wrong to...
In this issue: Biodiversity Planning applications and decisions Nationally significant infrastructure projects Planning and flood risk Lex Talk®Planning: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Biodiversity Biodiversity net gain for nationally significant infrastructure projects This piece reviews how biodiversity net gain ( BNG) duties are intended to be brought in for nationally significant infrastructure projects ( NSIPs) under the Environment Act 2021 ( EA 2021). BNG—requiring schemes to achieve at least a 10% uplift in biodiversity and secure it for 30 years—already applies to applications made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ( TCPA 1990). The government has opened a consultation to roll BNG out to NSIPs, pushing commencement back from November 2025 to May 2026. It sets out the principal features of the scheme, flags distinctions from the TCPA 1990 framework—most notably the expectation that biodiversity gain plans are lodged sooner—and considers...
In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental enforcement and prosecutions Environmental information ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Lex Talk®Environment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content United Kingdom Environmental Law Association ( UKELA) Annual Conference Air emissions and climate change Commission proposes rules to verify carbon removals and storage methods The European Commission has unveiled a draft implementing regulation to set consistent verification rules for carbon removals, carbon farming, and carbon held in products, under Regulation ( EU) 2024/3012. The proposal details procedures to deliver harmonised third‑party certification within the EU certification framework. It addresses...
Byte Dance, Tik Tok’s parent, has appealed a €530m fine levied by Ireland’s privacy regulator, disputing a finding that the social-media platform breached the EU’s data-protection rules by improperly sending user data to China, a company spokesperson said today. The appeal, filed with Ireland’s High Court on 28 May 2025, contests the Irish Data Protection Commission’s ( DPC) decision that Tik Tok failed to implement adequate safeguards to shield European user data from potential access by Chinese authorities, the spokesperson said......
In this issue: Repairing obligations and dilapidations Business tenancies Service charges Contractual issues Enforcing security and property insolvency Disputes and remedies Rent and rates Property disputes in Scotland 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 Repairing obligations and dilapidations Supreme Court confirms developer’s entitlement to pursue negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for remedial costs against its structural engineer ( URS v BDW). The case of URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21 is the latest instalment in a sequence of decisions arising from claims by a developer ( BDW) against its structural engineer ( URS) concerning structural defects in two residential developments, where the remedial works were undertaken after it no longer held any...
In this issue: Personal insolvency Corporate insolvency Document review Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation Creditor's participation The office-holder International restructuring and insolvency Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals New content Personal insolvency Judgment Alert: Mobile Telecommunications Company KSCP v Al Saud [2025] EWCA Civ 681 The Court of Appeal ( Civil Division) rejected the petitioner’s application ( Mobile Telecommunications Company KSCP) for permission to appeal the dismissal of its bankruptcy petition against Prince Hussam bin Saud bin Abdulaziz al Saud ( Prince Hussam). The court found no realistic prospect that the petitioner could overturn the judge’s factual conclusions that, during the relevant three-year period preceding the petition, Prince Hussam did not have a ‘place of residence’ in England and Wales, as required by section...
Moran v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2025] UKFTT 540 ( TC) What are the practical implications of this case? Although there have been many decisions examining the charge under the transfer of assets abroad code in Chapter 2 of ITA 2007, Pt 13 in relation to transferors, the authorities offer far thinner guidance on the position where income is matched to benefits enjoyed by a UK resident. Moran is a rare illustration of the courts wrestling with the consequences and operation of that charge. What matters particularly in Moran is the First-tier Tribunal’s (the FTT) way of tying the benefits received to the transactions that led to income arising to a person outside the UK. There were at least two transfers of assets. The transfer that plainly produced a benefit did not give rise to income in the hands of a person abroad. The...
Original news Mr W ( CAS-111806- F8J2)—6 February 2025 Summary The Deputy Pensions Ombudsman has upheld in part a complaint concerning a reduction in a spouse’s pension. The complainant had no entitlement to the higher figure erroneously given in the Scheme’s initial correspondence. He sustained no financial loss, as he did not rely on the inaccurate statement to his disadvantage. Nevertheless, £500 was awarded for significant distress and inconvenience. This decision reinforces that pension schemes may only pay the benefits provided for in the scheme’s trust deed and rules. The erroneous quotation did not create a right to enhanced benefits. An inflated amount in the Scheme’s first letter could not override those governing documents. What were the facts? Mr W’s wife was a member of the Harrods Group Pension Scheme (the Scheme)......
By 242 votes to 116, the House of Lords once more pressed Parliament to add the amendment to the DUA Bill, following interventions from numerous peers who argued that the Labour government’s decision to withhold the clause weakened copyright safeguards to placate Silicon Valley. It marked the fourth occasion on which peers endorsed Beeban Kidron’s transparency proposals. Kidron said it was remarkable that the government’s fixed, unyielding stance deems enforcing laws to stop the theft of UK citizens’ property to be unfair to the very industry indeed openly committing the theft......
In this issue: Leasing property Insolvency in property Regulatory compliance Property management Property transfers Property taxation Property development Environment, energy and buildings Lex Talk®Property: a Lexis®Nexis community Further property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& A Leasing property Consultation on security of tenure for business tenancies—interim statement from Law Commission. Following its first consultation on the future of security of tenure for business tenants under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( LTA 1954), the Law Commission released an interim statement on 4 June 2025. It sets out provisional conclusions on the aspects covered, which will guide the next phase and form the basis of a second consultation paper, to ensure the LTA 1954 works for today’s commercial leasehold market....
In this issue: New technologies Internet Data protection Media Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Telecommunications 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 CAP clarifies AI disclosure requirements in UK advertising regulation The Committee of Advertising Practice ( CAP) has set out the present UK position on disclosing AI in advertising. Although acknowledging the EU AI Act will begin applying from August 2024, CAP confirms there is no universal obligation in the UK to declare AI use in adverts. The guidance underscores that existing CAP Code and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice rules cover AI-generated material, and points to the 2023 industry principles from the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers and the Institute of...
In this issue: Immigration Pay Pensions Equality, diversity and inclusion Whistleblowing Data protection and employee information Corporate governance Settlement Employment Tribunals New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Employment resources on Lexis+® Lex Talk® Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Immigration What can sponsors and Skilled Workers do to address the White Paper proposals The Immigration White Paper, ‘ Restoring control over the immigration system’, proposes a substantial scaling back of the Skilled Worker route, principally by confining it to the most highly skilled roles and by markedly increasing the price of using it. The timetable spans from ‘within weeks’ to ‘within this Parliament’, meaning sponsors and Skilled Workers should track Home Office statements closely. In his News Analysis, Ben Maitland, senior associate at Vanessa Ganguin...
In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Other corporate crime news Lex Talk®Corporate Crime: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct Whistleblower rewards could soon take shape in the UK. The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO) will argue in favour of incentives for whistleblowers as part of a government-led fraud review. See News Analysis: Whistleblower rewards may soon materialise in UK. Sentencing Government to roll out far-reaching prison and sentencing reforms. England and Wales record the highest per capita prison population in Western Europe, with overcrowding worsening sharply in recent years....
In this edition: Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other financial crime Lex Talk® Risk & Compliance: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Financial sanctions OFSI publishes new financial sanctions video guidance series The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) has launched a new video guidance series, ‘ Financial Sanctions: The Basics’. The collection features six videos outlining key elements of UK financial sanctions delivery, including guidance, the consolidated lists, reporting obligations and licensing processes. The aim is to support individuals and businesses in meeting UK financial sanctions obligations. See: LNB News 04/06/2025 44. Outcomes from the cross-government review of sanctions implementation and enforcement On 15 May 2025, the UK government issued its first cross-government review of sanctions implementation and enforcement. The review assessed the UK’s enforcement model and set out the wider...
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