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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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High Court judge Jennifer Eady said she struggled to see how CCP Graduate School Ltd’s case 'could ever have been anything more than fanciful', noting the funds had already left the account before Santander was warned of suspected fraud. The ruling records that, once Lloyds Banking Group alerted it, Santander swiftly blocked the account. It adds: ' A receiving bank in these circumstances cannot be taken to have assumed any responsibility to the third-party victim of the fraud', such as CCP. Misled by scammers, CCP, a company that previously ran a further education school in north-west London, approved the transfers in September and October 2016 from its National Westminster Bank Plc account to an account at Santander... In October 2022, CCP issued proceedings against Nat West and Santander, the first such case since a landmark July 2023 UK Supreme Court ruling that banks do not owe...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—27 March 2025 In this issue: Sanctions and export controls AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other financial crime Other Risk & Compliance updates this week 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, noting £25bn of Russian assets frozen since February 2022 alongside 396 enforcement matters. It records OFSI’s first proactive monetary penalty, the exercise of its disclosure power, and its initial counter-terrorism designation. The workforce rose to 135, and 564 additional designated persons were placed on sanctions lists. The review underlines strengthened enforcement capability and wider international co-operation. See: LNB News 21/03/2025 20. OFSI issues penalty to HSF Moscow for Russia sanctions...
Background Old Truman Brewery Ltd, the second respondent, sought planning permission to redevelop a former brewery in Spitalfields. The proposal was placed before the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council’s Development Committee (the “ Committee”) at its meeting on 27 April 2021, attended by five members. On that date, the Committee voted unanimously to defer deciding the application. The matter returned to the Committee on 14 September 2021. By then, the Committee’s composition had changed from that of the 27 April 2021 meeting. The Council’s standing orders stated that, where a planning application is deferred and reconsidered at a later meeting, only Members who were present previously may vote on it. Consistent with that rule, it was announced at the start of the 14 September 2021 meeting that only councillors who had attended on 27 April 2021 were entitled to vote on the...
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Repairing obligations and dilapidations Enfranchisement and right to manage Disputes and remedies Enforcing security and property insolvency Additional Property Disputes updates Lex Talk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for diary Trackers Latest Q& As Key developments and horizon scanning Spring Statement 2025— Key Construction and Planning announcements: On 26 March 2025, the Chancellor of Exchequer, the RT Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out a series of steps affecting Planning and Construction, including updates concerning the Building Safety Levy. See: LNB News 26/03/2025 50. Repairing obligations and dilapidations No costs order where improvement notice was quashed ( Manaquel Company Ltd v Lambeth London Borough Council): In Manaquel Company v Lambeth London Borough Council [2025] UKUT 97 ( LC), the Upper...
Kumpers Composites Gmb H v TPI Composites CV-23-00214- PHX- SMB What are the practical implications of this case? At its heart, the dispute concerned whether and how the CISG applied, how it should be construed, and whether specific provisions could be contracted out of. As a preliminary step, the court addressed CISG applicability. The agreement chose Arizona law to govern and expressly disapplied any conflict-of-laws rules. Relying on leading US CISG authorities, the court stated that, by virtue of the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, the CISG overrides state law, so a choice of Arizona law necessarily encompassed the CISG. It added that excluding choice-of-law rules did not dislodge the CISG’s operation. Because the CISG is substantive in character, this approach accords with recent German decisions on the point... Two further points centred on the integration clause and the...
UK developments FCA amends sustainability labelling and discolsure requirements and publishes related Handbook Notice 127 The Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) has revised its Handbook, effective 28 February 2025, reshaping sustainability labelling and disclosure obligations. The package introduces anti-greenwashing measures across several conduct of business sourcebooks, updates the labelling framework, and adjusts rules for on-demand sustainability information. The instrument also defers the deadline for firms to satisfy on-demand sustainability information requests, shifting it from 2 December 2025 to 2 April 2026. Handbook Notice 127 outlines these amendments, alongside certain other updates made by earlier instruments to different parts of the Handbook. See: LNB News 28/02/2025 34. Sources: FCA 2025/6— Sustainability labelling and disclosure of sustainability-related financial information (amendment) instrument 2025, and FCA Handbook Notice 127. FCA clarifies sustainability rules do not restrict defence sector investment The FCA has stated that its...
Tom Hayes, once a trader at Citigroup and UBS, and Carlo Palombo, formerly of Barclays, are contesting their convictions before the UK Supreme Court at what is due to be a three-day hearing in court. The proceedings could once again turn on a decade-old issue that has repeatedly gone against both former traders on several previous appeals in the past: did taking their banks’ commercial interests into account when submitting interest rates on their behalf automatically render them dishonest? Hayes and Palombo are not the only people also closely awaiting the answer to that question. Nine individuals have been convicted or pleaded guilty for rigging benchmark rates, known as the London interbank offered rate ( Libor) and the Euro interbank offered rate ( Euribor), and a successful appeal could reopen those old cases. Maia Cohen- Lask, a partner at Corker Binning, said: ' If the...
Motorists are currently paying £164 less than in 2024, when the average premium was £941, based on the newest figures released alongside price comparison website Confused.com. According to the report, this represents the largest year-on-year percentage fall since 2014 and continues the downward movement in rates that started in the first quarter of 2024. Tim Rourke at WTW noted that insurers have been able to recalibrate pricing and pass on savings to policyholders because claim frequencies were lower in the first quarter of 2025, coupled with reductions in average repair damage costs. Prices have trended lower since early 2024......
Global M& A rebound drives insurance boom, UK broker says The insurance broker and risk advisory firm stated that it had arranged transactional risk insurance limits — the highest amount payable — totalling US$67.8bn in 2024, a 38% increase on 2023. Marsh also said that analysis contained in its report, ' Transactional risk insurance 2024: Year in review', indicates companies are increasingly seeking deal cover through both representations and warranties, and warranty and indemnity insurance across sectors, accompanied by a significant rise in tax insurance. ' As M& A activity rebounded in 2024, transactional risk insurance remained a vital tool for mitigating risk and enhancing deal certainty', Marsh said in a statement. The full global number of insured deals is not currently publicly available. But the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh plc, reported placing insurance for more than 1,600 individual...
General Dynamics United Kingdom Ltd v The State of Libya [2025] EWCA Civ 134 What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment clarifies the bar for waiving execution immunity under the SIA. It is of particular importance to those contracting with sovereigns or state‑owned bodies, as it confirms that broadly worded commitments to the enforceability of an arbitral award can amount to a waiver of execution immunity, even without an explicit mention of the SIA. General formulations acknowledging that an award will be enforceable may suffice to displace execution immunity. Careful drafting remains essential so the enforcement position is unmistakable. Practitioners advising on the drafting of arbitration agreements involving state counterparties should ensure the wording used captures the parties’ intentions on enforcement......
Antitrust General Court largely dismisses actions against the Commission’s decision concerning cartel in the European Government’s Bond sector; moderately reduces fines imposed on Nomura and Uni Credit The General Court delivered its judgment in the following actions brought against the Commission: T-441/21 UBS Group and UBS v Commission T-449/21 Natixis v Commission T-453/21 Uni Credit and Uni Credit Bank v Commission T-455/21 Nomura International and Nomura Holdings v Commission T-456/21 Bank of America and Bank of America Corporation v Commission T-462/21 Portigon v Commission These cases contested the infringement decision of 21 May 2021 concerning a cartel based on exchanges of commercially sensitive information among seven banks ( AT.40324). The General Court largely upheld the Commission’s findings and moderately reduced the fines for Nomura and Uni...
UT dismisses IR35 appeal by Sky Sports pundit ( PD & MJ Ltd v HMRC) PD & MJ Ltd v HMRC [2025] UKUT 94 ( TCC). Mr Thompson featured for many years on Sky’s Soccer Saturday. Between 2013 and 2017, his work for Sky was delivered through the appellant company. HMRC concluded that the intermediaries rules in the Income Tax ( Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 ( ITEPA 2003), ss 48–61, governed the arrangements and therefore raised PAYE and NIC assessments on the company. The company appealed. The First-tier Tribunal ( FTT) rejected the appeal, applying the three-stage framework from HMRC v Atholl House Productions Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 501. The company then appealed to the Upper Tribunal ( UT), alleging that the FTT committed errors of law at each stage. The UT started with stage one, namely construing the actual contract in place...
Mergers The CMA imposed an IEO regarding the completed purchase by Aramark Limited of Entier Limited—see further, case page NOTE— For all live mergers before the CMA, see further, UK mergers—ongoing cases tracker Subsidy control The Subsidy Advice Unit has issued its final report with advice to the Department of Business and Trade on its proposed subsidy to Post Office Limited—see further, final report The Subsidy Advice Unit has agreed to a request for a report giving advice to Highlands and Islands Enterprise on its proposed subsidy to Kishorn Port Limited—see further, case page NOTE— For all decisions referred under the Subsidy Advice Unit under the Subsidy Control Act 2022, see further, UK subsidy control—ongoing cases tracker Upcoming dates For dates of forthcoming UK competition developments, see further, UK Competition calendar......
Robert Cook told delegates at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s annual Compliance & Legal Seminar that arbitration attracts the most focus in rule submissions because it demands ongoing updates. There are numerous angles to scrutinise with arbitration, and, as part of the rule modernisation initiative, we are willing to address it in earnest, Cook noted. My team won’t thank me for saying this, but at times I think arbitration—perhaps it should be handled by another body. He went on: people tend to presume that if we administer it, the industry is in charge—aside from the industry, which argues it is not. So it becomes a perpetual ‘nobody’s satisfied’ situation, raising the question of whether this is even something we ought to be administering. He observed that the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and others, have acknowledged that FINRA’s oversight of...
Latest SIs laid for sifting The following statutory instrument was formally withdrawn and subsequently re-laid for parliamentary sifting on 25 March 2025: The Energy ( Euratom Decisions and Miscellaneous Provisions) ( Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2025 An earlier version of this draft statutory instrument was tabled on 24 March (see: REUL( RR) A 2023 SI Bulletin—drafts laid for sifting on 24 March 2025). It was re-laid on 25 March 2025 with an explicit, specified commencement provision (21 days after being made) and an updated explanatory memorandum that signposts the planned future reforms section of the Assimilated Law Parliamentary Report for June to December 2024. A complete list of all proposed negative procedure SIs under REUL( RR) A 2023 can be accessed here......
DMZ v DNA [2025] SGHC 31 What are the practical implications of this case? Administrative acts by arbitral bodies can be susceptible to review where neither the institution’s rules, the lex arbitri, nor the arbitration agreement expressly or implicitly bar it. Such decisions must be taken lawfully, with respect for procedural fairness, the institution’s own rules, the applicable lex arbitri and the contractual terms governing the arbitration. Where an institution issues an administrative ruling that carries no right of appeal or review, a party aggrieved by that outcome ought to invite the institution to revisit its position under an express, or an implied, power to reconsider (paras [40]–[45]). Any court challenge is unlikely to succeed if the unhappy party failed first to request reconsideration by the institution. Instead of mounting a direct challenge where the rules foreclose one, parties may allow the decision to remain in...
High Court Judge Nicholas Lavender On 24 March 2025, Judge Nicholas Lavender partially allowed Andrew Phillips’ appeal, permitting him to reinstate a portion of his action against National Grid Gas plc ( National Grid). He contends the company failed in its duty of care when giving reasons for his non-eligibility for ill-health retirement, even though his employment ended owing to a back injury. The proceedings arise from Phillips’ challenge to Recorder Gibbons’ ruling, which had entered summary judgment for the defendant, National Grid, on his damages claim. The matter before the King’s Bench Division of the High Court turned on how the pension scheme rules should be read and on the employer’s obligation to express an opinion about an employee’s incapacity......
The company reported, in total, settling slightly above £1.3bn across upwards of 52,000 claims for customers and relatives holding individual protection policies in 2024 during the year. The majority of Aviva’s payouts related to life cover, incorporating terminal illness benefits. It added that a further £559m-plus was disbursed by Aviva to upwards of 9,300 claimants under group protection policies......
HMRC v Innovative Bites Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 293 VATA 1994, Sch 8 Group 1 provides that VAT at the zero rate applies to food, but it also highlights excepted items, which are subject to VAT at the standard rate......
Roadpost Inc v Beam Communications Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 120 What are the practical implications of this case? The principal takeaway for practitioners is that, when pursuing enforcement of an arbitral award that includes specific performance, avoid presenting it purely as declaratory relief; a court may regard an order in that guise as serving no real purpose at all in practice. For arbitrators, a cautious approach in drafting is to set out declarations in paragraphs distinct from operative orders, thereby making any subsequent enforcement materially more straightforward. What was the background?......
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