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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: 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...
In this issue Trusts Court of Protection Elderly and vulnerable clients UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Regulatory compliance for Private Client Contentious trusts and estates International Question of the week Additional Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& As Useful information Trusts CTJ update on Commercial Court seminar on equity in commercial law The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ( CTJ) records that the Commercial Court has staged its latest seminar centred on equity in commercial law. Discussions addressed the accountability of fiduciaries, how equity underpins commercial bargains, and the doctrine of equitable rescission. See: LNB News 19/05/2025 45......
In this issue: Internet Data protection 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 Internet Commission launches EU DSA action against adult sites over child safety The European Commission has started formal proceedings against Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos under the EU Digital Services Act for suspected failures in safeguarding minors. It plans priority probes, spanning evidence collection, interviews and inspections, centred on alleged breaches of obligations around age-checking tools and risk assessment processes. Stripchat is to be de-designated as a Very Large Online Platform, with oversight moving to the Cyprus Radiotelevision Authority within four months. In parallel, Member States, acting via the European Board for Digital Services, are beginning parallel coordinated action targeting smaller pornographic services to secure uniform enforcement of the EU DSA across the European Union. See: LNB News 27/05/2025 8......
Mergers The Commission approved the transaction granting exclusive control over assets of the European over-the-counter business of Viatris Inc. to Cooper Consumer Health S. A. S.......
Moran v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 540 ( TC) For many years, the taxpayer lived in a UK home because of intricate and opaque structures arranged by her deceased husband. He purchased the property and later transferred it to a Jersey‑resident company, N Ltd, which he had set up. N Ltd was owned by a Jersey discretionary trust he had also created, the C trust. A further Jersey company, W Ltd, was owned by another Jersey discretionary trust settled by Mr Moran, the B trust. The continuing expenses of the property were covered by loans made by W Ltd to N Ltd. After her husband’s death, the taxpayer ostensibly lived in the property under a licence to occupy. HMRC issued assessments on the taxpayer under the TOAA rules for eight years. Under those rules, income would be treated as arising where a...
The UK Supreme Court has thrown out a challenge by URS Corp Ltd, a subsidiary of infrastructure consultancy AECOM, seeking to avoid claims from BDW Trading Ltd, the business behind developer Barratt Redrow. Justice Andrew Burrows explained that the court dismissed URS Corp’s contention that the expense of remedial works to two high-rise apartment blocks fell outside its duty of care to BDW Trading because BDW chose to carry out the works. He stated there is no applicable ‘voluntariness principle’ and, in any event, BDW may not have been acting of its own free will, at all, as it was addressing the risk of injury or death to occupants of the towers. ‘ It is strongly arguable that three aspects of the assumed facts show BDW was not, in a real sense, acting voluntarily when paying for the repairs to be...
Financial services adviser Broadstone reported its review of the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA)’s most recent Financial Lives Survey, released on 16 May 2025, indicated that one in three savers who moved were dissatisfied with the result. Around 12% of members with a DB pension are thinking of moving to a DC arrangement, Broadstone added, citing the FCA figures, which drew on responses from 17,950 people questioned between February and June 2024......
Private actions The CAT issued an order (dated 21 May 2025) in Perse Technology Ltd v Electra Link Limited, partially allowing an application, under section 47A of the Competition Act 1998, for an interim injunction brought by Perse Technology against Electra Link Limited. No further information on this application has yet been released—see further, order. NOTE— For all live private actions in the UK that have been made public, see further, UK private actions—ongoing cases tracker. Upcoming dates— For dates of upcoming UK competition developments, see further, UK Competition calendar......
External guidance on corporate co-operation and enforcement in relation to corporate criminal offending External guidance on corporate co-operation and enforcement in relation to corporate criminal offending supersedes and replaces the SFO’s 2019 co-operation guidance. It underscores swift self-reporting and comprehensive co-operation with SFO investigations as pivotal factors for prosecutors when considering a DPA to conclude a corporate investigation and to refrain from formal charges, save in exceptional cases and subject to prosecutorial discretion. However, the availability of a DPA is not ruled out where a company has not self-reported, provided it has offered exemplary co-operation with the SFO’s investigation. DPAs have been deployed in the US for more than 30 years as a corporate pre-trial diversion mechanism, alongside non-prosecution agreements, with federal authorities entering approximately 327 corporate DPAs in total between 1992 and the present day. Reflecting a broader global movement in favour of...
Broadstone analysed the results of the latest Financial Lives survey Broadstone reviewed findings from the Financial Conduct Authority’s ( FCA) most recent Financial Lives study and identified that, in 2024, 7.6 million adults—14% of the UK adult population—held private medical insurance, an increase of nearly one million across 2020–2024. The figures also highlighted a rise in take-up of healthcare cash plans, up by more than one million to 5.1 million adults over the same period. Brett Hill, Broadstone’s head of health and protection, noted the analysis likewise shows employers are increasingly stepping in to provide benefits packages that support the health and wellbeing of their workforce......
Zzaman v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 539 ( TC) Mr Zzaman appealed a discovery assessment concerning the HICBC for 2018–19. He was not in self-assessment. His adjusted net income was above the £50,000 HICBC limit and he was receiving child benefit. In April 2021, an HMRC officer identified a tax shortfall for 2018–19. In January 2023, a different HMRC office issued a discovery assessment for £2,501. His grounds of appeal were: that the retrospective provision in section 97 of the Finance Act 2022 ( FA 2022) was unfair and did not apply to him; the stance in HMRC v Jason Wilkes [2021] UKUT 150 ( TCC) should be adopted that working out adjusted net income is particularly challenging for a PAYE employee with fluctuating pay that HMRC already held all relevant information and ought to have informed him of any additional...
See Checklist: FCA financial crime guidance—supporting materials. The Checklist should be consulted in tandem with...
See Q& A: Would the residence nil rate band ( RNRB) be available where a non long-term resident dies leaving UK property (which was their home and valued at £500,000) to their child and where their worldwide estate is valued at £3m but the UK element of the estate is valued at £500k? ie does the taper threshold relate to the worldwide estate or just the UK estate of a non long-term resident individual? Consult the Q& A that explores whether the residence nil rate band ( RNRB) can apply when a non long-term resident dies leaving a UK residence, worth £500,000, to their child, where the overall worldwide estate totals £3m but the UK component is £500k. It asks whether the taper threshold is assessed by reference to the worldwide estate, or confined to the UK estate, for such an...
Mergers The Commission has received notifications for: Brasserie Nationale/ Boissons Heintz ( M.11485) — ordinary merger procedure Madison Dearborn Partners/ Schoeller Group ( M.12012) — simplified merger procedure (re‑notified after the original notification was withdrawn on 18/11/2024) In Unicredit/ Banco BPM ( M.11830), commitments have been offered during the phase I review Note— For all ongoing merger investigations before the Commission, see EU mergers—ongoing cases tracker. State aid An appeal has been filed before the Court of Justice in Case C-348/25, PGI Spain and Others v Commission, challenging the General Court’s judgment in Case T-596/22, which dismissed an action to annul the Commission’s decision in State aid Case SA.102454— MIBEL fossil fuel cost adjustment...
What are the practical implications of this case? The practical implications of this case are threefold. First, the Dutch courts consider EU state aid rules to extend to ECT arbitral awards even where the tribunal is seated beyond the EU. Here, Switzerland was selected as the seat. As all parties were European and proceeded on the basis that EU state aid rules bound them, the Amsterdam District Court found those rules also govern an ECT claim in arbitration outside the EU... Second, the tribunal’s conclusion that damages for an ECT breach align with the EU internal market was regarded as irrelevant by the District Court of Amsterdam, since the exclusive power to rule on state aid compatibility lies with the European Commission (and ultimately the Court of Justice)......
What does the Market Insights Trend Report cover? The Market Insights Trend Report delivers a comprehensive examination of the RPs reviewed by the courts in 2024. It also offers perspective on key patterns and outlines what we, with our contributors, anticipate for 2025 and beyond......
Gayatri Balasamy vs M/s ISG Novasoft Technologies Ltd 2025 INSC 605 What are the practical implications of this case? The majority ruling has sweeping ramifications: it effectively imports into the statute a judicial competence—deliberately withheld by Parliament—to alter an arbitral award. Section 34, which governs challenges to an award, expressly permits a court to set aside an award only on the limited grounds specified there, with no express authority to vary or revise the result. Section 37, which addresses appeals, including those taken from orders made on applications under Section 34, must be construed in concert with the Act’s overarching and fundamental premise of minimal judicial intervention, reflected in Section 5 of the Act. The judgment further recorded that, under the Arbitration Act, 1940—the immediate predecessor of the 1996 Act—courts were in fact empowered to modify an award. By contrast, the 1996 Act,...
Marsh Ltd and White Oak Commercial Finance Europe ( Non- Levered) Ltd settled their dispute on 21 May 2025 while the trial was ongoing. A Marsh representative told Law360 the broker was glad to see the issue concluded. San Francisco-based White Oak had asserted that Marsh owed it US$142.7m for arranging an insurance policy intended to protect its investments in Greensill Capital, a supply-chain finance business. In 2023, the investor reported the policy failed to respond. White Oak alleged Marsh was aware of difficulties at Greensill and did not reveal them, risks which could have jeopardised the cover being marketed. Greensill, established by Australian entrepreneur Lex Greensill, collapsed in 2021 after its insurer, Tokio Marine, declined to renew a US$4.6bn policy underpinning the company. White Oak further contended that one policy placed by Marsh proved worthless when a probe found the...
On 19 May 2025 at the High Court, Senior Costs Judge Jason Rowley determined that the retainers used by Slater and Gordon UK Ltd — under which the firm could deduct up to 25% of any damages secured to contribute towards its costs — were not unenforceable damages-based agreements within the meaning of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. He further confirmed that Slater and Gordon’s conditional fee agreements accorded with the rules in the Act that regulate such retainers......
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