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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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Mergers The Commission approved: the takeover granting sole control of Mac Gregor Pte Ltd and Mac Gregor Sweden AB by Triton Fund 6 SCSp ( M.11823), following a Phase I inquiry—see further, the Midday Express the transaction conferring joint control of Bluebird Bio Inc on SK Capital Partners L. P. ......
Fresh guidance for UK banks and insurers, outlining what the central bank expects as they bolster preparedness for climate-related risks, arrived amid mounting criticism of the government’s own mitigation plans. The government’s advisory body, the Climate Change Committee, cautioned that adaptation efforts are either too slow, have stalled, or are heading the wrong way, while former prime minister Tony Blair urged a reset of climate policy in a report emphasising that adapting to climate change must move up the agenda. As both warnings were delivered on 30 April 2025, the Bo E’s PRA guidance felt timely—yet it notably avoided any binding enforcement tools, prompting doubts about how much real-world effect it will achieve. Expectations, not rules In a 51-page communication, the PRA said it expects bank boards to be kept informed about climate-related risks. Boards should then set a business strategy that also...
On 30 April 2025, the Work and Pensions Committee issued its Second Special Report on the Defined Benefit Pensions Schemes inquiry, begun in March 2023, setting out the sitting government’s reply to the predecessor Committee’s report on Defined Benefit Pension Schemes. Among its points, ministers indicated that, as a public DB consolidator, the PPF might assume responsibility for DB schemes unlikely to appeal to commercial superfunds or insurers. The concept originated under the former Conservative administration, yet movement on the plan has paused since Labour’s victory at the July 2024 general election. The government’s response added that the PPF could make an important contribution to defined benefit consolidation, given its record of investing in UK productive finance and its experience bringing together more than 2,000 schemes within the PPF and the Financial Assistance Scheme, as highlighted in the published document itself......
Ms Misa Zgonec- Rozej (on her own behalf and as executor of the Estate of Mr John Richard William Day Jones deceased) and others v Pereira [2025] EWCA Civ 171 What are the practical implications of this case? Claims in clinical negligence and personal injury are increasingly apt to invoke the doctrine of material contribution as a stand-in for ‘but-for’ causation, without pausing to assess its suitability to the facts in issue. This judgment provides a check on that mission creep. The Court of Appeal reaffirmed that material contribution operates within narrow, clearly delineated limits and is not a substitute for proof. Even where causation of the injury is plainly multi-factorial, the court should first seek to resolve the case on a ‘but-for’ footing. It is only if a ‘but-for’ conclusion cannot be reached in favour of either party that the court may turn to...
Drayton Manor Farms Ltd v Stratford- Upon- Avon District Council [2025] EWHC 775 ( Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? This decision, echoing Durham County Council & Hartlepool Borough Council v The Secretary of State for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities [2023] EWHC 1394 ( Admin), confirms that a High Court declaration remains the clearest route to dispel uncertainty caused by the grant of planning permission under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ( TCPA 1990). It also sets out how to judge whether a power generation scheme is a self-contained project or an addition to an adjoining or neighbouring existing scheme. The judge held that interdependence is gauged by whether the scheme can operate entirely on its own. Expert evidence was examined on the degree to which the projects: occupy the same land could sensibly be conceived as a single, larger...
Hill v Touchlight Genetics Ltd and other companies [2025] EWHC 107 ( Pat) What are the practical implications of this case? Rarely in patent litigation does the outcome hinge so squarely on human shortcomings, but here it did: the claimant-inventor’s account proved unreliable. Judges are acutely aware that memory can be fragile, and over the many years of this quarrel it appears the claimant’s recollection of what happened shifted. The dispute neatly illustrates how testimony of fact fares when set against contemporaneous paperwork. Courts often attach great weight to documents made at the time. Where the two versions part company, a witness’s credibility will usually be damaged. Legal advisers often face a sensitive dilemma when evaluating a witness’s reliability—particularly where the witness is also their client. A central task for an adviser is to coolly test the merits of the client’s case, which may...
On 30 April 2025, the Committee confirmed it had invited representatives of four industry bodies and policy think tank experts to assess how much UK investment is held by retirement funds and to consider ways to raise it. In a statement, the Committee said the government has made releasing capital tied up in pension schemes and insurance firms for use elsewhere a core part of its strategy to increase investment in the UK. This, it added, would ‘drive economic growth’. The Pension Schemes Bill, reportedly due before 22 July 2025, is expected to contain provisions to facilitate the withdrawal of surplus cash from defined benefit pension schemes to bolster that growth......
Mergers The Commission has authorised: the acquisition of joint control over Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst Gmb H & Co. KG and Huf Industrieverwaltung Gmb H by Huf Holding Gmb H & Co. KG and Sodecia Participações Sociais, S. G. P. S., S. A.......
Mergers The CMA released its recent decision indicating that undertakings in lieu of a phase 2 reference could be accepted concerning the proposed acquisition of Champion X Corporation by Schlumberger Limited......
The matrix agreement Hearing loss among military personnel has plagued the Services for generations, with accounts of soldiers suffering auditory damage dating back to before the First World War. In recent times, there has been a pronounced surge in claims for hearing impairment brought by serving military personnel and Veterans. This rise coincided with publicity around the matrix agreement secured by Hugh James with the Mo D regarding military deafness claims. Under that matrix agreement, all defences concerned with limitation and breach of duty are set aside, effectively neutralising those usual objections. This captures any contention that the hearing loss was sustained during combat (the Combat Immunity Defence), any assertion that the Overseas Operations Act 2021 prevents the claim, and any plea of contributory negligence. A frequently advanced defence by the Mo D is that the claimant failed to wear the hearing...
Mergers The Commission approved the purchase of joint control over Galaxy UK Topco Limited by Hg Pooled Management Limited together with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.......
On 29 April 2025, the EU's General Court confirmed that the EU Intellectual Property Office's ( EUIPO) Board of Appeal was correct to conclude that there are insufficient visual, aural and conceptual cues to distinguish Dr August Wolff Gmb H & Co KG Arzneimittel's ' Vagisan' sign from Combe International LLC's ' Vagisil' brand. The court stated that, although the element 'vagi' hints at the goods' intended purpose, that does not negate the resemblance between the signs arising from that shared component, nor from their identical structure, cadence and intonation. The Board of Appeal determined that both marks contain the segment 'vagi', which points to 'vagina' and indicates the products' function within female intimate healthcare, and the court upheld that assessment, finding the similarities sufficient to preclude differentiation for the purposes at issue in this particular case......
Latest SLSC recommendations The SLSC has released its latest report: SLSC—23rd Report of Session 2024–5, 1 May 2025 Instruments of interest The Committee noted the Brexit-related instruments below as of interest, but did not draw them to the special attention of the House: Drivers’ Hours and Tachographs ( Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/402 Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors ( Amendment) ( Northern Ireland) Regulations, SI 2025/407 Additional conclusions are available here. Sifting process for proposed negative procedure SIs introduced under REUL( RR) A 2023 REUL( RR) A 2023 sets out a suite of delegated powers that enable the government and the devolved administrations to bring forward SIs to reform REUL and assimilated law......
In a non-precedential ruling authored by US Circuit Judge Timothy Dyk, a three-judge bench dismissed an appeal by Longitude Licensing Ltd challenging a decision last year from US District Judge Vince Chhabria that struck down claims in four of its patents, originally granted to researchers at Epson. The Ireland-registered company sued Google a year ago, targeting its Pixel smartphones, relying on patents it had acquired covering 'digital image technologies that Epson developed'. Longitude forms part of the patent monetisation outfit IPValue Management Group, headquartered in Santa Clara......
The rise of artificial intelligence in financial services has sparked an internal discussion at the PRA over a move away from its technology-agnostic stance, according to the regulator’s chief. To date, UK financial watchdogs have favoured technology-neutral requirements for areas like model risk oversight and operational resilience, built to span multiple tools and systems. The PRA has not yet introduced rules tailored to AI. As the chief indicated, the issue is under consideration internally and no definitive position has yet been reached......
The legislation broadly matched industry expectations, with some welcome adjustments, notably decentralised finance ( De Fi) being largely excluded from the scope and an exemption for overseas stablecoin issuers (see: Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ( Regulated Activities and Miscellaneous Provisions) ( Cryptoassets) Order 2025, LNB News 30/04/2025 6, and News Analysis: Legislation to bring UK crypto activity within regulatory perimeter published). Finance minister Rachel Reeves also disclosed talks with US counterparts on deeper cooperation over digital assets, potentially easing anxiety among UK businesses about the United States moving ahead under crypto-friendly president Donald Trump. The Treasury said ‘clear new rules’ will boost investor confidence and protect consumers, though the 29 April 2025 announcements (a draft statutory instrument, a policy statement and a press release) sketch only the bare outline of the government’s plan. Businesses ‘should not expect this draft...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Domestic abuse Public children Financial provision International children Daily and weekly alerts New Practice Note New Precedent New Q& As Updated content Useful information Practice and procedure Speech by the President of the Family Division: Katherine Gieve Memorial Lecture— Cleveland: Deja Vu? The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew Mc Farlane, delivered the Katherine Gieve Memorial Lecture, titled ‘ Cleveland: Deja Vu?’. Gender recognition ( For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers) In For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16, the Supreme Court considered the text, context and purpose of the Equality Act 2010 in assessing whether, in practice, ‘sex’ should be understood as ‘certificated sex’. For Women Scotland Ltd, an organisation advocating for women’s and children’s rights in Scotland, challenged guidance issued by the Scottish...
In this issue: Leasing property Transferring property Property development Residential tenancies Key developments and horizon scanning Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers New Q& As Leasing property Telecommunications Code—redevelopment In a comprehensive and engaging review of a range of inventive arguments deployed to oppose renewal of a subsisting code agreement under paragraphs 31(4)(a), (c) and (d) of the Electronic Communications Code, the Upper Tribunal in Vodafone Ltd v (1) Icon Tower Infrastructure Ltd (2) AP Wireless II ( UK) Ltd [2025] UKUT 00058 ( LC) held that the alleged grounds were not established. This update concentrates on grounds 31(4)(c) and (d)—the intention to redevelop—and the paragraph 21 public benefit test. See News Analysis by David Jones and Mark Barley, associate and partner at Womble Bond Dickinson: Telecommunications Code—redevelopment ( Vodafone v Icon & AP...
In this issue: Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Energy Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Data protection and cybersecurity Main challenges of EU AI Act- GDPR interplay identified by Member States MLex: EU countries flag potentially clashing legal duties, national governance models to secure regulatory coherence, and a call for clear legal guidance to reduce compliance burdens as the key concerns in aligning the EU AI Act with Regulation ( EU) 2016/679 (the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation ( EU GDPR)). European governments caution that the regimes’ differing supervisory approaches could produce inconsistent outcomes, which should be prevented through structured co-operation among the competent authorities. See News Analysis: Main challenges of EU AI Act- GDPR interplay identified by Member States. Free movement, immigration and employment European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee proposes flexible Entry- Exit System rollout plan On 23 April 2025, the...
In this issue: UK, EU and International Regulators and Bodies Authorisation, Approval and Supervision Prudential Requirements Financial Crime and Sanctions Regulation of Capital Markets Regulation of Derivatives Sustainable Finance and ESG Banks and Mutuals Investment Funds and Asset Management UK Mi FID II Regulation of Insurance FSMA Regulated Pensions Activity Payment Services and Systems Fintech and Cryptoassets Regulation of AI in FS Dates for your diary Lex Talk® Financial Services: a Lexis®Nexis community UK, EU and International Regulators and Bodies FCA’s regulatory plans point to cautious optimism The Financial Conduct Authority’s 2025–2030 strategy, published on 25 March 2025, sets out four core priorities: combating financial crime supporting consumers encouraging growth becoming a smarter regulator Firms that look more closely will notice some less expected but...
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