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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: Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter‑proliferation financing Other financial crime Data protection Other practice compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Financial sanctions FCDO announces 13 new Global Anti- Corruption sanctions designations The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ( FCDO), together with the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, has added 13 listings under the Global Anti- Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 ( SI 2021/488). Those named include individuals and entities in Moldova, Georgia and Guatemala linked to corruption—among them the pro‑ Kremlin Evrazia organisation, two Georgian judicial officials and seven Guatemalan officials, including former President Giammattei. The measures apply asset freezes and UK travel bans to the designated parties. See: LNB News 02/04/2025 50. OFSI extends bond restructuring licence and amends legal services...
In this issue: UK taxes for Private Client Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance HMRC Manuals updates Contentious trusts and estates Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 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 UK taxes for Private Client Updated HMRC interest rates for late and early payments Following the making of the Taxes and Duties, etc ( Interest Rate) ( Amendment) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/386, HMRC has refreshed the ‘ HMRC interest rates for late and early payments’ page. From 6 April 2025, interest on late payments for all taxes will rise by 1.5%. As a...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change International energy Lex Talk®Energy: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Key developments and materials Built environment industry responses to the Spring Statement 2025 Following the Spring Statement on 26 March 2025, a range of built environment bodies shared their reactions. Renewable UK welcomed the decision to remove Climate Change Levy costs from electricity used to produce green hydrogen. See: LNB News 27/03/2025 54. Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Electricity Code Modifications All current changes to the Connection and Use of System Code ( CUSC), the Grid Code ( GC), the System Owner - Transmission Owner Code ( STC) and the Security and Quality Supply Standard ( SQSS) are consolidated on NESO’s...
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Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—3 April 2025 In this issue: Data protection Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other financial crime Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection Automated decision-making and DSARs: right to access means a right to explainability ( CK v Magistrat Der Stadt Wiendun & Bradstreet Austria GMBH) The Court of Justice offered a series of clarifications on the reach of data subject access requests where automated decision-making is involved. It determined that the touchstone for ‘meaningful information about the logic involved’ under Article 15(1)(h) of Regulation ( EU) 2016/679 ( EU GDPR) is whether the information allows the individual to grasp the logic used when their personal data is processed by automated means. The court also confirmed that...
In this issue Public Law case law quarterly— Q1 2025 Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Coronavirus ( COVID-19) Constitutional and administrative law Judicial review Equality and human rights Public procurement Subsidy control and state aid Information law State security and intelligence Other public law news Lex Talk®Public Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers New and updated content Useful information Public Law case law quarterly— Q1 2025 The Public Law case law quarterly sets out insights and commentary on significant judgments, compiled each quarter by the Lexis+® UK Public Law team. See News Analysis: Public Law case law quarterly— Q1 2025. Brexit highlights Weekly round-up of EU- UK TCA Specialised Committees’ publications—1 April 2025 This summary covers publications issued by the Specialised Committees created under the EU- UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement ( TCA) between 26 March and 1 April 2025. See: LNB News 01/04/2025 38. Commons Library publishes briefing on Product Regulation and Metrology Bill The House of...
Mergers The CMA has released the full wording of its phase 1 ruling clearing the proposed purchase by William Grant & Sons Group of The Famous Grouse, Naked Malt and related brands—see further, decision The CMA has issued the full text of its phase 1 ruling approving the anticipated acquisition by International Business Machines of Hashi Corp, Inc—see further, decision Note— For every active merger currently before the CMA, see further, UK mergers—ongoing cases tracker Upcoming dates For the timetable of forthcoming UK competition matters, see further, UK Competition calendar......
In this issue: Employee benefit trusts Corporate governance Tax treatment International share schemes and incentives Trackers Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Employee benefit trusts Independent Loan Charge Review: Call for Evidence Following the recent confirmation of a fresh independent review of the loan charge (see News Analysis: Share Incentives weekly highlights—30 January 2025— Employee benefit trusts), the government has issued a call for evidence as part of that process, directed at those still within scope of the loan charge and their advisers. The notice states that the review panel is seeking further information to inform its work—especially documentary material, including copies of marketing materials, letters and emails circulated by scheme promoters. Submissions must be made by 12 noon on 30 May 2025. For background on the loan charge, see Practice Note: Disguised...
In this issue Employment taxes Budgets and Finance Bills VAT International Taxes management and litigation Companies and corporation tax Anti-avoidance Devolution Pensions Lex Talk®Tax: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& A Useful information Employment taxes Royal Assent for National Insurance Contributions ( Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Act 2025 The National Insurance Contributions ( Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill—bringing in an uplift to 15% for the main rate of employers’ secondary Class 1 National Insurance contributions from 13.8%, and cutting the secondary threshold to £5,000 per annum—was first set out at Autumn Budget 2024 and obtained Royal Assent on 3 April 2025. The provisions apply from 6 April 2025. See: National Insurance Contributions ( Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Act 2025. HMRC publishes Employment Related Securities Bulletin 59 ( March 2025) Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System ( PISCES)—policy update: HM Treasury will bring forward PISCES, a new venue for...
In this issue: Children's social care Education Governance Local government finance Social housing Social care Healthcare Planning Environmental law and climate change New and updated content Latest Q& A Children's social care Court rejects application for deprivation of liberty order ( Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council v BM) In Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council v BM [2025] EWHC 745 ( Fam), the Family Division refused the local authority’s inherent jurisdiction application to authorise a child’s deprivation of liberty. The court determined that consent from those holding parental responsibility amounted to sufficient authorisation. The matter concerned a 15-year-old autistic child with significant learning disabilities. It was held that, where a child is accommodated under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 with parental agreement, and the parents take a child-focused approach to the care plan and work...
In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental enforcement and prosecutions Environmental permits and consents ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Key developments and materials Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change DESNZ releases provisional 2024 UK greenhouse gas emissions statistics The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ) has issued early estimates for the UK’s 2024 greenhouse gas output. Total emissions are put at 371 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, down 4% on 2023 and 54% below 1990. The electricity supply sector recorded the sharpest fall (15%), reflecting greater electricity imports and higher renewable generation, which cut gas and coal use at power stations. Domestic transport continued to be the largest source, contributing 30% of all emissions in 2024. UK-based international aviation bunker emissions rose by 9%. Industrial emissions declined by 9%,...
In this issue: Banking & Finance case round-up Security Real estate finance Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Structured products and securitisation Sanctions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Banking & Finance case round-up Banking & Finance— March 2025 case round-up For an overview of the March 2025 Banking & Finance matters we highlighted, see: Banking & Finance— March 2025 case round-up. Security Bluestone Mortgages Ltd v Stoute [2025] EWHC 755 ( Ch) was an appeal to the Chancery Division from a County Court decision. The issue was grounded in Seculink Ltd v Forbes [2025] EWHC 524 ( Ch). The central legal conclusion is that where a judgment or order encompasses both moratorium and non-moratorium liabilities, or where security covers both categories, a creditor must obtain the court’s permission under the Debt...
In this issue: WTO Trade in goods Customs Lex Talk® International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts WTO US halts financial contributions to the World Trade Organisation. MLex: The US has paused its financial contributions to the World Trade Organisation ( WTO) while a review of all overseas aid contributions is undertaken, a US government official said. See News Analysis: US suspends financial contributions to World Trade Organisation. Trade in goods Trump announces semi-reciprocal tariffs on most US trading partners. MLex: President Donald Trump stated his administration is applying reciprocal tariffs on imports from US trading partners, totalling......
In this issue: Arbitration in England & Wales International Arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Lex Talk®Arbitration: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Arbitration in England & Wales OFSI issues General Licence allowing payments to be made to Arbitration Associations and Arbitrators to cover arbitration fees The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) has released General Licence INT/2025/5787748, issued under Regulation 64 of the Russia ( Sanctions) ( EU Exit) Regulations 2019 ( SI 2019/855) and Regulation 32 of the Republic of Belarus ( Sanctions) ( EU Exit) Regulations 2019 ( SI 2019/600). The licence authorises payments to Arbitration Associations and Arbitrators to meet fees and expenses arising from arbitral services. It further allows payments to a designated person’s representative, or legal...
In this issue: Ukraine Conflict Coronavirus ( COVID-19) business interruption Types of insurance Insurance claims: Fraud and dishonesty UK regulation EU regulation Cases tracker Dates for your diary New and updated content Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Insurance: a Lexis®Nexis community Ukraine Conflict The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD) unveiled a wartime insurance scheme, projected to offer as much as €1bn of annual protection in cover for Ukraine’s exports each year. See: EBRD launches €1bn insurance facility for Ukrainian exports. Coronavirus ( COVID-19) business interruption The company behind the Dirty Martini cocktail bar chain has resolved its £4m claim with a Maltese insurer over losses said to have arisen during the coronavirus ( COVID-19) pandemic. See: Cocktail bar chain settles £4m COVID-19 loss insurance claim A law firm cautioned on 1 April 2025 that insurance brokers now have under a year remaining to submit claims on behalf of their clients for business losses stemming from the...
When the statutory entitlement to seek remote and flexible ways of working was introduced, employees largely viewed it as a sign of shifting post-pandemic workplace norms. Yet recent WRC decisions have explored the boundaries of the remedies available to employees under this legislation. Together with moves by some public and private sector employers to increase office attendance, this has triggered a wider debate on the outlook for hybrid work in Ireland... Background Under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (the Act), all employees may request a remote working arrangement ( RWA); if approved, it can commence once six months’ service with the employer has been completed. The Act also enables certain categories of employees to request flexible working for caring duties. Following the Act, the Code of Practice on the Right to Request Flexible and Remote Working (the Code of...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Cross-border disputes Evidence and disclosure Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Online Procedure Rule Committee minutes—10 February 2025 The minutes from the Online Procedure Rule Committee ( OPRC) meeting on 10 February 2025 have been released. The committee reviewed the draft Statutory Instrument laid on 29 January 2025, intended to confer rule-making authority on the OPRC, with debate timing updates expected after the parliamentary recess. Members considered approaches to legal support, prioritising modern digital services and joint working with the Administrative Justice Council. They also examined the Renters Rights Bill and its possible effects on tribunal matters, alongside anticipated updates to the Tribunal’s digital platform. The Pre-action Model Sub-committee is creating a digital dispute resolution framework to promote...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Public children Private children International children Lex Talk®Family: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly alerts New content New Q& As Updated content Useful information Practice and procedure Online Procedure Rule Committee meeting minutes The Online Procedure Rule Committee has released the minutes of its 10 February 2025 meeting. Public children Failure to give adequate consideration to expert opinion ( Re F and another ( Fact Finding: Gonorrhoea)) In Re F and another ( Fact Finding: Gonorrhoea) [2025] EWCA Civ 340, an appeal was pursued against a determination that the child’s gonorrhoea resulted from fomite transmission rather than sexual abuse. The six-year-old received the diagnosis in June 2023. The local authority alleged abuse by the mother or the maternal uncle, who had also tested positive around the same period. At first instance, the judge concluded the infection likely arose via fomite transfer linked to the uncle’s poor hygiene, despite expert evidence...
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The Economic Miracle of Great Britain: Using DB pension surpluses more productively The SMF, in its briefing paper ‘ The Economic Miracle of Great Britain: Using DB pension surpluses more productively’, argued that PPF protection be lifted to 100% of benefits for all members, in order to overcome any trustee scepticism about the government’s proposed reforms. These recommendations arrive as the government proposes relaxing the rules that permit DB pension scheme surpluses to be ‘extracted’ and redeployed by corporate sponsors. The SMF’s paper further explained that one factor which could potentially hold back trustees from extracting surpluses is concern that the PPF currently pays only 90% of a scheme’s promised pension to members below normal retirement......
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