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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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Automated decision-making and DSARs: access rights imply a right to explainability ( CK v Magistrat Der Stadt Wiendun & Bradstreet Austria GMBH) CK v Magistrat Der Stadt Wiendun & Bradstreet Austria GMBH, Case C-203/22 What was the background Austrian resident CK was refused a mobile phone contract after an automated credit check by Dun & Bradstreet Austria Gmb H ( D& B) rated her as not creditworthy. Relying on Article 15(1)(h) of the EU GDPR, she sought more detail from D& B on how the assessment was made, including the steps taken. When the Austrian data protection authority asked D& B to give ‘meaningful information’ on the logic underpinning the automated decision that used CK’s personal data, the company shared limited particulars but withheld other aspects, arguing the protection of trade secrets, notably its algorithms. The Federal Administrative Court in Austria ruled that D& B...
As the deadlock persists, frustration is rising among lawyers and clients who want clarity 'one way or the other' from the government, said Adam Schwartz, a white-collar partner at Carlton Fields. ' If they’re [the government] going to proceed with something, then OK; if not, that should be stated as well,' he told Law360. ' This limbo is a difficult place to be for both lawyers and clients'. White-collar practitioners are now trying to help clients 'understand that the rhetoric (from the Trump administration) may or may not align with the Department's real, practical enforcement tools,' said Marisa Darden, chair of the white-collar, government investigations and regulatory practice at Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP. ' If you’re a client with an open FCPA matter, it’s reasonable to push your lawyers to try to get it wrapped up,' she said. ' But we no longer have...
In a decision issued on 24 March 2025, Employment Judge Richard Wood held that Lancaster Gate Assistance Ltd had not penalised Mikhail Winter for reporting suspected unlawful conduct, as he had merely raised the points informally with the forger rather than alerting senior staff who could carry out a proper investigation. The court found that the proof of any disclosures was too imprecise and lacked consistency overall in the evidence presented. Judge Wood emphasised that, for this sort of claim, a claimant must do more than make very broad assertions that disclosures were made. Winter worked on claims at the business from March 2023 before resigning seven months later. The judgment records that he alleged managers treated him unfairly after he said his line manager had been forging signatures and stamping cheques with incorrect dates......
Merck Serono v Comptroller- General of Patents [2025] EWCA Civ 45 The dispute centred on Merck’s bid for an SPC covering cladribine for treating multiple sclerosis, relying on its 2017 marketing authorisation for Mavenclad®. The request was found not to satisfy Article 3(d) of Regulation ( EC) 469/2009 (the EU SPC Regulation) owing to the presence of an earlier marketing authorisation for a medicinal product with cladribine as the active ingredient. In reality, two prior authorisations existed: one for Leustat®, granted in 1995, and another for Letak®, granted in 2004. Each authorisation concerned a medicinal product comprising cladribine as an active ingredient for the therapy of hairy cell leukaemia. Those earlier approvals long pre-dated Mavenclad®, both designating cladribine as the active substance and addressing hairy cell leukaemia, rather than multiple sclerosis, thereby preventing full compliance with Article 3(d). Merck’s SPC...
Cargill Financial Services International, Inc, et al v Taras Barchchovskiy 24-cv-5751 ( LJL) What are the practical implications of this case? This matter concerned an application in a US court to recognise a judgment of the English Commercial Court that upheld an LCIA arbitral award. Applying New York law, the court confirmed that a New York court does not need to establish personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtor merely to recognise a foreign judgment; it is sufficient that the foreign court possessed personal jurisdiction over that debtor. The court drew a firm line between recognition—a mainly ministerial step—and enforcement, which does require the establishment of personal jurisdiction over the debtor or their assets. Recognition is pivotal because, without it, a foreign judgment is ‘a meaningless piece of paper, enforceable only within the borders of the jurisdiction of the court that rendered it’. See Cargill Fin Servs...
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla found that Lipa did not infringe Larball Publishing Co and Sandy Linzer Productions' ( SLP) 1979 track ' Wiggle and Giggle All Night', because the Second Circuit clarified in 2024, in litigation over Ed Sheeran's hit ' Thinking Out Loud', that pairing two unprotectable elements lacks the requisite originality to amount to a copyrightable work under appellate precedent recently and clearly reaffirmed in that decision concerning popular music authorship and scope of protection. Awarding Lipa summary judgment, Judge Failla concluded that Larball and SLP failed to 'create a triable issue regarding substantial similarity' between Lipa's recording and any protectable components of theirs. She also rejected what she described as the music publishers' 'last-ditch attempt to rescue their case', noting that their 'newly minted merits theory' was advanced too late and, in any event, would not have altered the...
The proposed negative SI was reviewed by both committees with no advice to upgrade: Companies Act 2006 ( Recognition of Third Country Qualifications and Practical Training) ( Amendment) Regulations 2025 Latest Commons select committee recommendations The most recent report from the Business and Trade Committee is: Votes and Proceedings, Tuesday 18 March 2025— Select Committees: Reports, Business and Trade Committee Latest SLSC recommendations The latest publication from the SLSC is: SLSC—21st Report of Session 2024–25, 27 March 2025 Instruments of interest The SLSC identified the following Brexit-related instrument as of interest, but did not draw it to the special attention of the House: Persistent Organic Pollutants ( Amendment) ( No 2) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/297 Further conclusions can be found here......
In this issue: Budgets, Statements and Finance Bills Tax treatment Corporate governance Regulatory matters Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Budgets, Statements and Finance Bills Spring Statement 2025 On 26 March 2025, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presented the government’s Spring Statement. From a Share Incentives standpoint, the standout news was a policy paper detailing HMRC’s approach to the treatment of companies and employees trading shares on the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System ( PISCES). The Treasury plans to lay a statutory instrument before Parliament in May 2025 to establish the legal framework for the PISCES Sandbox. Once that legislation has been laid, the Financial Conduct Authority will release its rules, and the PISCES Sandbox will come into being. Key points in the policy paper (available here) include: where, at the point an employee acquires shares, arrangements are in place for those shares to be traded on a PISCES...
AG opinion on Dutch courts’ jurisdiction in Apple competition class actions Advocate General Campos Sánchez- Bordona has issued her opinion in Case C‑34/24, Stichting Right to Consumer Justice and Stichting App Stores Claims, a Dutch reference seeking guidance on Article 7(2) of Regulation ( EU) No 1215/2012 ( Recast Brussels Regulation). The question concerns the jurisdiction of the Dutch courts over class actions brought by two Netherlands‑based foundations against Apple for alleged abuse of dominance. Background In 2021 and 2022, two Dutch foundations launched class actions under national law, alleging that Apple Inc. and Apple Ireland abused their dominant position in i OS app distribution via the App Store and its in‑app payment ( IAP) system. They argue Apple’s commissions, typically 30%, charged to developers and passed on to Dutch consumers as higher prices, breach Article 102 TFEU. The claims seek a finding of...
Tariffs cover imports of finished vehicles as well as components entering the country. Cars and car parts that meet the United States- Mexico- Canada agreement are excluded from the levies, yet they are still forecast to weigh heavily on carmakers across Europe and Asia in the months ahead. It could also significantly push up costs for American buyers looking to acquire a car, possibly by thousands of dollars. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump sounded upbeat, asserting that the new duties might raise between $600bn and $1trn a year over the next two years. Trump also claimed they would encourage companies to invest further in US plants and manufacturing, a central objective of his administration. ‘ What we’re doing is incentivising companies to come into America and build’, he said......
In this issue: Spring statement 2025 Data protection Cybersecurity Reputation management Public sector information State security and intelligence Lex Talk®Information Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Spring statement 2025 Spring Statement 2025—key Information Law announcements On 26 March 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, outlined a number of initiatives pertinent to Information Law professionals. These cover the modernisation of HMRC’s access to third-party information and its application of biometrics, together with the Regulation Action Plan and the Transformation Fund’s Frontier AI Examplars. See: LNB News 26/03/2025 39. Data protection Meta settles UK lawsuit over use of personal data for advertising MLex: Meta Platforms has settled a UK claim and agreed to stop using personal data from Tanya O’ Carroll, a...
In this issue: Spring Statement 2025 Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Agency and distribution Consumer protection Contracts International Supplier management New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& As Spring Statement 2025 Spring Statement 2025—key Commercial announcements On 26 March 2025, as part of the Spring Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out the government’s programme to restore stability, ramp up investment, and stimulate economic growth. The initiatives revealed are intended to move the government closer to meeting the principal milestones in the Plan for Change, released in December 2024. See: LNB News 26/03/2025 52. Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Meta settles UK lawsuit over use of personal data for advertising MLex: Meta Platforms has concluded a UK claim and agreed to stop using personal data belonging to Tanya O’ Carroll, a campaigner who contended the firm’s targeted advertising practices were not compliant with the United Kingdom General Data Protection...
Domestic The Central Bank ( Amendment) Bill 2025 initiated before Dáil Éireann On 18 February 2025, the Central Bank ( Amendment) Bill 2025 (the Bill) was brought before the Dáil. Dubbed the ‘right to be forgotten’ bill, it proposes changes to the Central Bank Act 1942 so that financial service providers do not treat cancer survivors differently, ensuring they are not unfairly disadvantaged because of past diagnoses once specified post-treatment thresholds are met. The initiative echoes a measure laid before the Dáil in October 2022, which subsequently fell with the dissolution of the Dáil on 29 January 2025. During the intervening period, Insurance Ireland introduced a voluntary code of practice for underwriting mortgage protection insurance for cancer survivors, effective from 6 December 2023. The new private member’s bill seeks to protect the privacy of cancer survivors by removing the obligation to disclose a cancer...
In this issue: Sanctions and export controls AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other financial crime Other Practice Compliance updates this week Lex Talk®Practice Compliance: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Sanctions and export controls OFSI annual review reveals £25bn of Russian assets frozen The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) has published its 2023–2024 annual review, stating that £25bn in Russian assets have been frozen since February 2022, with 396 enforcement cases recorded. It sets out OFSI’s first proactive monetary penalty, the exercise of its disclosure power, and its inaugural counter-terrorism designation. Staffing has risen to 135 and 564 further designated persons were added to the sanctions lists. The review signals bolstered enforcement capacity and wider international co-operation. See: LNB News 21/03/2025 20. OFSI issues penalty to HSF Moscow for Russia...
In this issue: Accounts and reports Corporate governance Directors' and members' issues Environmental, social and governance issues Equity capital markets Partnerships Tax for corporate lawyers Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Accounts and reports FRC publishes update on company size threshold amendments Responding to the Government’s revisions to UK company size thresholds, which take effect on 6 April 2025, the Financial Reporting Council ( FRC) has revised pertinent existing publications. In addition, the FRC has issued a summary paper setting out the amendments to help reporters understand the updated framework. See: LNB News 21/03/2025 16. Corporate governance Home Office updates statutory guidance on modern slavery in supply chains The Home Office has issued a refreshed edition of its statutory guidance on transparency in supply chains under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015....
In this issue: Spring Statement 2025 Taxation Funding, surplus and investment Trustees, governance and administration Pension scams and liberation New content Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Spring Statement 2025 Spring Statement 2025— Chancellor silent on pensions with only fleeting reference to investment reform and removal of regulatory barriers as part of economic growth agenda During the Spring Statement 2025 on 26 March 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, gave scant attention to pensions, defying expectations in parts of the pensions sector. Her only nod to pensions was to state that government’s growth plan involves boosting investment, overhauling the pensions framework, creating a National Wealth Fund, and stripping away regulatory obstacles across all industries, as part of its broader economic growth agenda. Published alongside the...
Thatchers Cider Company Ltd v Aldi Stores Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 5 What are the practical implications of this case? The main practical implications for trade mark owners are the following: seek protection for the mark you plan to use, and for packaging, aim to register the whole packaging as a trade mark rather than only the word mark. Thatchers’ success here was largely because it held a trade mark registration for the packaging, which included the lemon elements. If the dispute had been assessed solely by comparing the THATCHERS and TAURUS word marks, Thatchers would most likely not have succeeded linked to this is the point that infringement claims can be successfully advanced under TMA 1994, s 10(3), although it remains uncertain whether other cases will adopt the same reasoning as this one......
Da Silva v Brazil Iron Ltd [2025] EWHC 606 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment is noteworthy, as the High Court examined whether obstacles in securing funding overseas could make England and Wales the proper forum for hearing the claim, even though Brazil bore the closer, real and substantial connection with the action. The court concluded that this was an exceptional case: not simply a disparity in the availability of funding between two jurisdictions, but a genuine risk that substantial justice would not be achieved in the foreign forum. The conclusion was supported by several factors, notably: the probable value of the claim (comparatively low) the anticipated number of claimants (comparatively few) Both had to be weighed against the comparatively high complexity of such claims. In Brazil, although CFAs existed, the conditional fee model used in this...
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