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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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LCP stated that HSBC, Nat West, BP the oil giant, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group together held over £20bn of the FTSE100’s £40bn pension scheme surplus at the end of December 2024. The average surplus for firms with a UK defined benefit pension plan on that index is £600m, the consultancy added. Funding surpluses in defined benefit arrangements have surged—a stance LCP says is set to endure. The adviser also noted there has been an overall surplus across the UK’s top 100 companies for five consecutive years, and that 80% of that cohort with a defined benefit pension workplace savings scheme reported a surplus at their 2024 balance according to LCP at year-end 2024......
What are the practical implications of this case? Practitioners operating within professional discipline can draw reassurance from this ruling: the courts continue to adopt a firm stance of deference to the expert judgment of lay panels, both in establishing the facts and in applying the bespoke procedural rules that govern their specialist fields. This reinforces the primacy of sector-specific frameworks and acknowledges the panels’ institutional competence. The court’s hesitance to import criminal law principles into proceedings that are civil in character keeps the playing field even for participants—prosecutors, defence representatives and the legal advisers supporting panels—by limiting opportunities for satellite disputes. In turn, this curbs the mission creep that regulatory tribunals often face when confronted with protracted applications contesting the admissibility of evidence or pressing for good character directions in hearings not intended to grapple with the complexities of criminal court...
Allegations of human-rights abuses in Gaza have put the EU- Israel association accord, which frames their political and trade ties, under close examination right now. After meeting the bloc’s foreign ministers on Tuesday, the EU’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said member states had requested the European Commission to reassess the pact because of the ongoing humanitarian situation in Gaza. First sought by Ireland and Spain last year, the review could ultimately result in the association agreement being suspended. In February 2024, the pair sent a joint letter to the Commission calling for an ‘urgent review’ of the accord, citing worries that Israel may have violated the human-rights clauses contained in the document......
Facts The defendant in the proceedings, Ms Lawrence, entered into a loan agreement with a lender, for whom HNW, the claimant in the matter, acted as the security agent for the lender. The purpose of the loan agreement was to help finance Ms Lawrence’s development of a property. That property was also secured separately by a legal mortgage, operating as continuing security to the lender under the loan terms. Although HNW was not itself a party to the loan agreement, the loan agreement nonetheless contained an express provision said to grant HNW certain third party rights to enforce its terms; namely, that, even though HNW Lending Ltd was not a party to this Loan Agreement, HNW Lending Ltd could take the benefit of and specifically enforce each and every express term of the Loan Agreement, together with any term implied under it pursuant to the...
In an 80-page judgment, Justice Peter Roth stated that consumers will have a six-month window to submit claims for compensation, with payments limited to £70 per person. The written decision follows an oral ruling that sanctioned the settlement in February 2025, despite objections from Innsworth Capital, the claim’s backer, which contended the amount was inadequate and unfair. Innsworth’s bid to block the agreement ultimately failed before the appeals tribunal in February 2025, and was dismissed there. The litigation funder had asserted that the arrangement was unfair and that it was entitled to at least £179m (see News Analysis: Mastercard deal does not need to be perfect, tribunal told). In its 20 May 2025 judgment, the CAT concluded it was ‘appropriate’ for Innsworth to receive a 1.5 return multiple on the estimated £45.5m it expended on the proceedings in question. According to the CAT, this would...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Renewable energy 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 Access secured to six market-leading energy law titles We are pleased to confirm the expansion of our Lexis+ Legal Research service through an exclusive licence from Globe Law and Business to publish six premier energy law titles. We are currently embedding links to these works within relevant Practical Guidance in the Energy module on Lexis+. In the meantime, the titles can be reached directly: The AIPN Joint Operating Agreement: A Practical Guide Carbon Capture and Storage Energy and Resources Financing: A Practical Handbook Energy Storage: Legal and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities Solar Power: A Practical Handbook Wind: Projects and Transactions Great British Energy Act 2025 This Act sets out provisions for Great British Energy, a new entity wholly owned by the UK...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental enforcement and prosecutions Environmental information Environmental permits and consents ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Sources of environmental law ( UK, EU, International) Waste Water, flooding and drainage UKELA Annual Conference Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Key developments and materials Fresh strategic partnership settled at the first UK- EU summit The inaugural UK- EU summit on 19 May 2025 concluded with both sides endorsing a ‘new strategic partnership’ that builds on the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Headline elements comprise a pledge to pursue a...
In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Consumer protection International Supply of services Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& A Advertising, marketing and sponsorship ASA rulings—21 May 2025 The Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA) assessed two objections to Vodafone Ltd’s website promotions about pricing. Concerns centred on misleading savings representations and the way promotional prices were put forward. The ASA upheld both challenges. See: LNB News 21/05/2025 9. CAP and BCAP implement new misleading advertising rules under Digital Markets Act The Committee of Advertising Practice ( CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice ( BCAP) have revised their advertising rules to mirror the unfair commercial practices regime in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. From April 2025, advertisers must disclose the total price, are barred from fake reviews, must identify incentivised reviews, and must not present consumer reviews in a misleading way. The rules also...
In this issue: Data protection Artificial intelligence Lex Talk® Information Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection Gender identity and the right to rectification of personal data ( VP v Országos Idegenrendészeti Főigazgatóság) EU law analysis: In Case C‑247/23, VP v Országos Idegenrendészeti Főigazgatóság, the Court of Justice ruled that personal data relating to gender identity entered on a Member State’s public registers fall within the right to rectification under Article 16 of the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation 2016/679 ( EU GDPR). Making a correction may require the submission of appropriate and adequate evidence reasonably needed to demonstrate inaccuracy, which can include medical certificates. That said, a Member State cannot make exercising this right dependent on proof of gender reassignment surgery......
In this issue: Company disclosures, records and registers Accounts and reports Corporate governance Equity capital markets Restructuring Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Company disclosures, records and registers Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships ( Annotation) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/573 These Regulations specify defined circumstances in which the Registrar of Companies may, or must, place annotations on information held on the companies register. They take effect in part on 9 June 2025, and in full when CA 2006, s 790LA comes into force. See: LNB News 15/05/2025 7. Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information ( Amendment) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/ Draft These draft Regulations broaden the situations in which individuals can ask the Registrar of Companies to protect personal data provided to the public companies register. Where...
In this issue: Public rights of access Planning applications and decisions Nationally significant infrastructure projects Housing Daily and weekly news alerts Latest Q& A Related Documents Public rights of access Supreme Court holds that Dartmoor Commons Act right of access extends to wild camping ( Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority) In Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority [2025] UKSC 20, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Mr and Mrs Darwall’s appeal, confirming that section 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 ( DCA 1985) confers a public right of access that includes wild camping as open‑air recreation. Hannah Brown, senior solicitor, and Matthew Mc Feeley, Partner, at Richard Buxton Solicitors, with Rosie Brain, solicitor at Clarke Willmott, assess the ruling’s implications. Mc Feeley highlights that, aside from the core question of statutory...
In this issue: Arbitration in England & Wales Investment treaty arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other arbitration and ADR-related news and developments Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Arbitration in England & Wales Exclusive jurisdiction clause in settlement agreement takes precedence over prior arbitration clause, rules English Court In Destin Trading Inc v Saipem SA [2025] EWHC 668 ( Ch), the High Court refused a bid to halt the litigation under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996 ( AA 1996). It found that an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the English court in a subsequent settlement agreement took priority over arbitration clauses contained in earlier contracts. The ruling underlines that where parties finally resolve existing disputes in a fresh agreement, the settlement’s jurisdiction provision may oust earlier dispute...
A group of 22 businesses led by Bath Racecourse Co Ltd told the High Court that under a composite policy they should be indemnified for every occasion that business was interrupted at the height of the pandemic. The defendant insurers are Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE, Allianz Insurance Plc and Aviva Insurance Ltd. Representing the businesses, Adam Kramer KC of 3 Verulam Buildings argued that his clients are owed compensation for a ‘plurality’ of connected interruptions, instead of folding everything into a single loss attributed to an imposed restriction. He pointed to the policy wording, which fixes the interruption at the point the enterprise was disrupted to the extent it materially affected the business; how swiftly operations were stabilised, he said, is merely a question of quantification. The claimants all sit within the Arena Racing Company, an operator of venues spanning...
In this issue: Company law and regulatory Corporate Governance Useful information Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Company law and regulatory PISCES: legislation will allow for amendments to existing EMI and CSOP options The government has published the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 ( Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/583. These create the legal framework for PISCES and, for a PISCES company, allow trustees of the company’s EBT or SIP and the company’s employees and directors, or those of any group member, to participate in a PISCES arrangement. In addition, the government has signalled that the next Finance Bill will permit employers, with the employee’s consent, to amend existing enterprise management incentives ( EMI) and company share option plan ( CSOP) contracts to add a PISCES trading event as an...
In this issue: VAT Anti-avoidance Employment taxes Taxes management and litigation Finance Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers New and updated content Useful information VAT Court of Appeal—facilitators of VAT fraud can be deregistered even if they make legitimate taxable supplies ( Impact Contracting Solutions Limited v HMRC) In Impact Contracting Solutions Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 623, the Court of Appeal affirmed the Upper Tribunal’s finding that HMRC is entitled to cancel a person’s VAT registration for reasons tied to tax fraud, even where that person also makes bona fide taxable supplies, so long as deregistration is a proportionate response on the facts. See News Analysis: Court of Appeal—facilitators of VAT fraud can be deregistered even if they make legitimate taxable supplies ( Impact Contracting Solutions Limited v...
Carrying out a data protection impact assessment for AI systems is a core GDPR compliance duty and must not be reduced to a box-ticking exercise, stated Cian O’ Brien, Ireland’s Deputy Data Protection Commissioner. Regulators, he noted, are already treating the duty to undertake a DPIA [data protection impact assessment] with the utmost seriousness in relation to AI systems. Speaking today at AI Governance Global Europe 2025 ( IAPP, Brussels, 15 May 2025), O’ Brien said Ireland’s data protection authority has opened a wide-ranging investigation to establish whether Google fulfilled the GDPR’s data protection impact assessment obligation before it started training its AI model, Pa LM 2, using EU users’ data......
In this issue: Clinical negligence Employer’s liability Accidents on the highway Damages Claims involving a mentally incapacitated claimant PI & Clinical Negligence specific funding and costs Coroner’s inquests Starting a claim or counterclaim Part 36 offers Civil procedure rule committee minutes Scottish claims Other PI and Clinical negligence news New content Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Clinical negligence Court finds that defendants’ experts’ opinions were not logically defensible The King’s Bench Division in Hodgson v Hammond [2025] EWHC 1261 ( KB) upheld the claimant’s clinical negligence action against two general practitioners for missing and failing to treat pelvic inflammatory disease ( PID). Both doctors were held to have breached their duty of care by not performing, or arranging, a pelvic examination, which was required to confirm or rule out PID in...
In this issue: UK private actions UK mergers EU antitrust EU Mergers EU Competition Policy EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts Caselex UK private actions CAT issues judgment approving settlement in Mastercard collective damages action The CAT handed down its judgments in Walter Hugh Merricks CBE v Mastercard Incorporated and Others, arising from an application by the settling parties for a collective settlement approval order ( CSAO) in relation to collective proceedings that were commenced in 2016 under section 47B of the Competition Act 1998. The request for CSAO approval was lodged after the parties reached a provisional settlement agreement in December 2024. Background In September 2016, the CAT received an application to initiate opt-out collective proceedings under section 47B of the Competition Act by Mr Walter Hugh Merricks CBE, against Mastercard...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Financial provision Public children International children Daily and weekly news alerts At a Glance 2025–2026 Updated content New Q& As Useful information Practice and procedure President of the Family Division delivers speech on changes and future priorities The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew Mc Farlane, addressed the 2025 Resolution national conference, considering decades of evolution in family justice, highlighting recent progress and outlining priorities for the future. He reported that, through collective endeavour, the system has achieved notable reductions since the peaks of the COVID period: approximately a 20% fall in public law cases and around a 30% decrease in private law cases. See: LNB News 19/05/2025 27......
Chugga Chugg Pty Ltd v Privinvest Holding Sal [2025] EWHC 585 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? This decision offers practical guidance for businesses negotiating termination or handling guarantees: Advisers should urge clients to record, in clear terms, any conversations about possible termination, and ensure exploratory exchanges are expressly labelled as such. The judgment shows that mooting a consensual termination subject to price does not amount to renunciation. Mrs Justice Dias stressed that only a ‘clear, absolute and unequivocal’ refusal to perform qualifies. The standard is objective: viewed through the reasonable eyes of the innocent party, did the other side plainly signal an unwillingness or inability to perform, irrespective of its subjective intentions? Simply indicating a willingness to terminate if the figures work is not enough When faced with an alleged renunciation, innocent parties must act promptly to affirm or bring the...
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