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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 27 May 2025, HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC) said it had been sounding out employers’ views on a number of ‘hypothetical’ situations put to them. Among them was scrapping the National Insurance ( NI) relief for employers and employees in relation to these arrangements, removing NI exemptions that currently apply. Typically, employee pension contributions are free of income tax, yet they attract NI. Many employers provide an alternative under which staff give up part of their taxable pay and, instead, the employer makes an equivalent payment into the worker’s pension scheme on their behalf. This reduces NI liabilities for both parties, cutting NI bills for employers and for employees. Government figures suggest salary sacrifice features in about 30% of private sector and 9% of public sector pension arrangements......
In this issue: Obtaining, implementing and amending planning permission Biodiversity net gain Nationally significant infrastructure projects Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Obtaining, implementing and amending planning permission MHCLG launches consultation on new statutory build out framework The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG) has opened a technical consultation seeking views on establishing a statutory build out framework. This framework would extend to qualifying residential developments of 50 or more dwellings, using powers in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 ( LURA 2023) and the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Under the proposals, developers would be obliged to: submit a build out statement alongside their planning application to local planning authorities ( LPAs) for consideration serve a commencement notice on LPAs before any development commences on site provide yearly reports to LPAs on housing delivery progress MHCLG also proposes to bring into effect the new power in LURA 2023, s...
In this issue: Equity capital markets Members Partnerships Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Equity capital markets FCA to publish final PISCES rules and open sandbox applications in June 2025 The Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) has confirmed it will release its definitive rules for Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange Systems ( PISCES) in June 2025. At the same time, it will invite applications from prospective platform operators wishing to run a PISCES venue. The regime will be piloted in a sandbox through to June 2030, allowing operators to test different business models for trading shares in private companies. The FCA, together with HM Treasury, will then carefully evaluate the results to decide whether to embed PISCES in lasting legislation or pursue other approaches. See: LNB News 27/05/2025...
In this issue: Key R& I law developments Corporate insolvency processes Personal insolvency Restructuring Directors and insolvency The office-holder Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals New content Key R& I law developments Doyle, Keay and Curl, 13th edition, is out in print and online, setting out the full texts of the principal statutory provisions within a compact single volume. It is curated each year and comes with comprehensive, expert annotations......
In this issue: Damages Road traffic accidents Vicarious liability Psychiatric and occupational stress Costs Claims involving fraud and fundamental dishonesty Lex Talk®PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Damages High Court considers accommodation costs in a case involving a short life expectancy In Hill v East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust [2025] EWHC 1241 ( KB), the King’s Bench Division determined the claimant’s bid, within a personal injury action, for an additional interim sum of £500,000, chiefly to support a move to a recently bought property. Applying the approach in Eeles v Cobham Hire Services [2009] EWCA Civ 204, the court approved a proportionate interim award of £353,168 which, when added to earlier interim payments, brought the aggregate to £1,919,168......
Judge Mark Pelling held that Dimitrios Somovidis cannot ‘ring‑fence’ elements of his worldwide assets by contending that Beograd Innovation Ltd is barred from suing him in England due to Russian bankruptcy proceedings begun by a predecessor of the claimant. The judgment records an ongoing dispute between the parties over two ‘significant properties’ in England, including, notably, Somovidis’ longstanding family residence. In a 27 May 2025 statement, Steptoe International ( UK) LLP, acting for Beograd Innovation, welcomed the refusal of Somovidis’ bid to contest the English Court’s jurisdiction to hear the case and expressed satisfaction with the outcome. Steptoe noted that the decision affirms key legal principles on the enforcement of foreign judgments in England, notably in circumstances where defendants have moved here and possess assets within this jurisdiction. The Court, it said, rightly acknowledged that their client should not be deprived of...
Shanks v Scottish Qualifications Authority ( ET Case No 8001728/2024) Employment Judge Muriel Robison determined that the public body responsible for accrediting educational awards was liable to pay the claimant £348 in holiday pay, as she qualified for worker rights in her roles as invigilator and, later, chief invigilator. The judge held that the absence of any requirement to accept a minimum number of shifts did not, in itself, rule out worker status. Shanks began working as an invigilator on national examinations in 2022 and, two years later, was appointed chief invigilator, overseeing a team of 24. In July 2024 she sought holiday pay for the preceding two years; however, as recorded in the judgment, the SQA stated that these posts did not attract workers’ benefits. The authority grounded its position on a 2016 ruling which found Deliveroo drivers to be independent...
What is the purpose of tariffs? Tariffs are a type of tax, levied by states to raise income and, by extension, strengthen their economy. They are applied to items brought in from abroad, usually worked out as a percentage of the goods’ price and settled by the importer. Tariffs may equally serve as a political instrument, underpinning protectionist foreign policy by deterring consumers from purchasing products that originate overseas. Where imported items are pricier than home-made alternatives, the theory is that buyers will favour domestic options. Tariffs can furthermore be deployed to choke off supplies from particular nations, on the footing that the added expense becomes too great for the supply chain to absorb—in that way they function as a geopolitical tool as well as an economic one. How do tariffs impact your existing contracts? Across a supply chain, tariffs create difficulty. Under the...
In this issue: Sanctions Cybersecurity Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Sanctions DBT and OTSI update guidance on reporting suspected trade sanctions breaches The Department for Business and Trade ( DBT) and the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation ( OTSI) have revised their guidance on how to report suspected breaches of trade sanctions. A fresh section, ‘ Whistleblowing for trade sanctions’, has been introduced, confirming that from 26 June 2025, individuals will be able to make whistleblowing disclosures to OTSI about people or businesses they suspect of breaching trade sanctions that OTSI implements and enforces. These changes follow the Public Interest Disclosure ( Prescribed Persons) ( Amendment) Order 2025, SI 2025/604, laid before......
According to its yearly review of the UK’s fiscal prospects, the IMF noted that plans unveiled by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in November 2024 to merge defined contribution pensions into megafunds could deliver gains, including lower charges and broader exposure to varied asset classes. It cautioned, nonetheless, that care is needed to avoid unwanted consequences, such as a weakening of competition, as the IMF underlined. Ministers anticipate the reforms will produce larger vehicles that can harness economies of scale, with more scope to channel savers’ money into illiquid holdings, for example national infrastructure schemes and companies, over time. At the time, the government added that bringing together the highly fragmented Local Government Pension Scheme and defined contribution master trusts into megafunds might free up about £80bn for investment purposes......
In this issue: Governance Education Local government finance Planning Healthcare Social care Social housing Environmental law and climate change Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Governance No substantive legitimate expectation from an oral assurance ( R ( Grantchester PC) v Greater Cambridge Partnership) The High Court determined that a purported verbal assurance by a local councillor, given at an informal meeting with Grantchester residents, did not create a legitimate expectation that the proposed greenway would avoid the village if residents withheld support. It held that a substantive legitimate expectation—amounting, in effect, to a villagers’ veto—can only arise from an oral statement where there is ‘a particularly clear and unequivocal promise’. Owing to the uncertainty surrounding the oral evidence of what was actually said, Mrs Justice Lieven considered it improbable that the councillor made any statement capable of constituting a binding commitment. The court’s reasoning underscores the forensic challenge of proving a...
In this issue: Intellectual property Competition in life sciences Research and development Borderline products Advertising medicines Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Intellectual property In light of the evidence—documentary analysis defeats inventor’s account of patent entitlement ( Hill v Touchlight Genetics) This dispute concerned entitlement to an invention by Dr Hill, with the exact timing decisive. A service agreement between her and the defendants ( Touchlight) was said to assign only part of her rights, leaving a remainder allegedly infringed by the defendant. Although the inventor placed significant weight on her testimony, there was a substantial body of contemporaneous documents. In dismissing the claim, the court conducted a meticulous review of presentations, emails and draft patents to resolve the timing question. The decision shows that, in such exercises, what a...
In this issue: UK antitrust UK private actions EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts Caselex UK antitrust CMA accepts Vifor’s commitments to end CMA’s abuse probe into disparaging treatment in iron treatment market The CMA has confirmed it will accept commitments from Vifor Pharma ( Vifor) to resolve concerns that it abused a dominant position by issuing misleading statements about a rival intravenous iron treatment. For context, on 31 January 2024 the CMA opened an investigation into whether Vifor—which manufactures the intravenous iron deficiency therapy Ferinject—had curtailed competition by disseminating misinformation to healthcare professionals regarding the safety of a competing product, Monofer, supplied by Pharmacosmosa—a family-owned specialist pharmaceutical company......
In this issue: Trade marks/passing off Patents IP and technology Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Trade marks/passing off Court grants interim injunction to stop further trade mark infringement proceedings ( Bargain Busting v Shenzhen Ske) The first defendant applied for an interim order preventing the claimant from issuing threats of trade mark infringement proceedings. The Chancery Division granted that interim relief, concluding the defendant’s likelihood of success at trial was sufficiently strong and favourable to warrant the injunction, having regard to the limited effect on the claimant’s Article 10 rights and the difficulty the defendant would have in quantifying damages for any unjustified or groundless threats. See [2025] EWHC 1239 ( Ch). Vape Co can’t threaten to sue retailers for TM infringement Law360, London: On 21 May 2025, a London court barred a vape company from threatening to bring proceedings against retailers for trade mark...
In this issue: Decision to prosecute and alternatives to prosecution Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Useful information Decision to prosecute and alternatives to prosecution UK may play major role in corporate misconduct regulation On 24 April 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office ( SFO) released guidance setting out the principal considerations for prosecutors when assessing corporate enforcement, including the choice between bringing criminal charges against businesses or pursuing deferred prosecution agreements ( DPAs). See News Analysis: UK may play major role in corporate misconduct...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Private children Costs International children Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content Useful information Practice and procedure What are the implications of the FJC guidance on covert recordings in children proceedings? The Family Justice Council ( FJC) has issued its definitive guidance on covert recordings in family cases concerning children. Amy Baugh, associate at Steele Raymond LLP, outlines the core principles for courts and practitioners, how best to advise clients who have made clandestine recordings, the dangers of drawing such material to the court’s attention, and the process for applying to rely on it, in What are the implications of the FJC guidance on covert recordings in children proceedings? Anonymisation of parents' names in care proceedings ( A Local Authority v X and others) In A Local Authority v X and others [2025] EWFC 126, the...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Business, investment and non-sponsored work Long residence, discretion and human rights EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights key upcoming changes of interest to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Home Office issues new immigration statistics for year ending March 2025 The Home Office has released fresh quarterly and yearly immigration figures for the twelve months to March 2025. The publication includes documents, data tables and guidance on people arriving in the UK, securing citizenship, claiming asylum, and being detained or removed, as well as migration for work, study and family. This...
In this issue: Data protection Cybersecurity Lex Talk®Information Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection DPC approves Meta's revised AI training plans following EU GDPR compliance improvements The Data Protection Commission ( DPC) has worked closely with technology companies on the handling of personal data for training large language models within the EU/ EEA, paying particular attention to Meta’s planned initiatives. The DPC initially flagged multiple concerns about Meta’s proposal to use publicly available material from Facebook and Instagram for artificial intelligence ( AI) training, and, after these issues were communicated, Meta temporarily halted the project. Seeking alignment of oversight across the EU, the DPC then engaged with its European Data Protection Board ( EDPB) counterparts to obtain a formal opinion under the EU General Data Protection Regulation ( EU) 2016/679 on central...
In a defence lodged on 28 May 2025, Chubb European Group plc told the High Court it has no obligation to pay Aegis Motor Insurance Ltd, which reinsured AIG. Chubb says AIG should not have paid US$2.9m to settle a New York case arising from a car crash involving Pulitzer prize-nominated journalist Sarah Maslin Nir and her friend, as the underlying policy was intended to respond only to disputes in the UK. The defence asserts that neither AIG’s loss settlement nor Aegis’s payment under its reinsurance binder fell within the terms and conditions of the AIG motor policy, and that AIG had no entitlement to seek reimbursement......
In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental enforcement and prosecutions ESG and sustainability Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Sources of environmental law ( UK, EU, International) Waste Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Commission adopts EU Net- Zero Industry Act implementation package The European Commission has issued a package of secondary legislation and a communication under the EU Net- Zero Industry Act to accelerate the production of decarbonisation technologies and bolster the EU’s industrial resilience and competitiveness. The measures refine the Act’s scope by identifying the products and components covered, set parameters for applying non-price factors in renewable energy auctions, and introduce common criteria for selecting net-zero technology manufacturing projects for strategic status. Collectively, these actions are intended to ensure projects that reduce...
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