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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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The new labour regulator The new labour regulator, formed by merging three separate existing enforcement bodies, will be empowered to provide guidance and support to staff taking legal action against their employers and to issue penalties to repay underpaid workers more quickly overall than pursuing an employment tribunal case themselves, Justin Madders told MPs. The agency will also be able to reclaim enforcement expenses from employers it successfully prosecutes, though this measure will be consulted on. ' We believe it is a key principle that, where wrongdoing occurs, the wrongdoer contributes towards the taxpayer’s costs of upholding the law,' Labour MP Madders said in the House of Commons......
In this issue: Horizon scanning Directors Employment contract Pay Tax Prohibited conduct protection at work Diversity and gender pay gap Whistleblowing Union status and obligations Financial services and banking: employment issues Employment tribunals Immigration IRLR Highlights— April 2025 New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Employment resources on Lexis+® Lex Talk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Horizon scanning Calls from businesses urging the UK government to moderate its employment law agenda have been largely set aside, with the Employment Rights Bill ( ERB) further enhancing workers’ entitlements on 4 March 2025. See Law360: Employment Rights Bill is pro‑worker but not...
In this issue: Planning and Infrastructure Bill Planning issues in energy projects Planning applications and decisions Highways and rights of way Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Planning and Infrastructure Bill MHCLG introduces Planning and Infrastructure Bill to Parliament The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG) has laid the Planning and Infrastructure Bill before Parliament. It sets out major reforms to accelerate and simplify the planning regime, including: swifter consenting for NSIPs and refreshed National Policy Statements, localised planning fees, a scheme delegating planning decisions, a nature restoration fund to support environmental interventions, a strategic planning system across England, stronger development corporations, and a simplified compulsory purchase process. The package aims to cut delays, reduce costs and drive economic growth while advancing the UK’s clean energy and climate...
In this issue: Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Public procurement Constitutional and administrative law Judicial review Equality and human rights Subsidy control and State aid Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit highlights Commons Library publishes briefing on progress on UK- EU relationship reset The House of Commons Library has issued a detailed briefing on the Labour government’s push to reset UK‑ EU relations since July 2024. Formal negotiations began in December 2024, ahead of a key UK‑ EU summit in London on 19 May 2025. The reset is built on three core strands: foreign policy and security cooperation, safeguarding citizens, and strengthening trade. In February 2025, the Prime Minister attended a meeting of EU leaders, advocating a broad...
Palmco Administration, Llc v Flower Payment, Inc, et al, No 23-7409, S. D. N. Y., 2025 US District Palmco Administration Llc, a New York-based energy supplier, provides electricity and natural gas in the United States ( US). In 2018, seeking assistance to enter Japan’s energy market, Palmco engaged Flower Payment Inc. Under their advisory agreement, Palmco lodged collateral of US$1,646,690.02. After later abandoning its Japan plans, Palmco executed a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement ( MIPA) with Flower and certain subsidiaries. The MIPA contemplated Palmco selling its Japanese subsidiary to Flower’s subsidiary, GQA Holdings Llc, for about US$1,048,000; in turn, GQA would return the collateral to Palmco, with Flower guaranteeing that obligation. Although the deal closed on 8 November 2019, the collateral was not returned. The MIPA contained an arbitration clause calling for disputes to be resolved under the International Arbitration Rules of the...
In this issue Probate Court of Protection Elderly and vulnerable clients UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals tracker Contentious trusts and estates 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 Probate High Court finds the claimant alive and sets aside the grant of probate ( Ashimola v Samuel). In a highly unusual probate matter alleging fraud, forgery and impersonation, the High Court has annulled the grant of Letters of Administration made to Ms Ruth Samuel, said to act as attorney for Mr Bakare Olatoye Lasisi, because the supposed deceased, Ms June Ashimola, is alive. Alternatively, the grant was revoked as it was procured using false, forged or fabricated documents, namely the Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate and Probate Power of Attorney ( Ashimola v Samuel [2025] EWHC 502 (...
In this issue: Trespass and adverse possession Business tenancies Disputes and remedies Contractual issues Key developments and horizon scanning Repairing obligations and dilapidations Residential tenancies Property disputes in Scotland Additional Property Disputes updates Lex Talk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Trespass and adverse possession Trespass is concerned with interference with possession of land, not ownership ( Director of Public Prosecutions v Cannon; Director of Public Prosecutions v Juniper) In Director of Public Prosecutions v Cannon; Director of Public Prosecutions v Juniper [2025] EWHC 520 ( Admin), the Court of Appeal allowed the Director of Public Prosecutions’ appeals, holding the district judge had erred in law by deciding the prosecution failed to prove the trespass element in counts of aggravated trespass contrary to section 68 of the...
In this issue Leasing property Statutory compliance Residential property Property development Transferring property Easements, rights and covenants Property in Wales Property taxes Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Leasing property Landlord’s reliance on ground (g) to resist a new business tenancy did not infringe the ECHR In MVL Properties (2017) Ltd v The Leadmill Ltd [2025] EWHC 349 ( Ch), the High Court held that a landlord’s opposition to granting a renewed lease under ground (g) of section 30(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. The court firmly dismissed the tenant’s case that the landlord’s plan to run ‘essentially the same business’ would amount to taking the tenant’s goodwill, which had become associated with the premises, contrary to the tenant’s possessions right protected by Article 1 of Protocol 1, as a breach of the human right to property. See News...
In this issue: Medical devices Post-market Pharmaceuticals—regulatory framework Commercialisation Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Medical devices AI model providers see European Commission finalise panel of scientific experts MLex: The European Commission has adopted an Implementing Act establishing and governing a scientific panel of independent experts to advise and assist EU and national authorities in enforcing the EU AI Act’s provisions for general-purpose artificial intelligence models. The definitive Act departs materially from an earlier draft on sensitive points, including conflicts of interest, internal procedures and transparency. Commission updates AI procurement model clauses following EU AI Act adoption On 5 March 2025, the European Commission issued updated model contractual clauses for AI procurement, revising the September 2023 version to align with the EU AI Act adopted in June 2024. The update delivers a...
State aid Court of Justice issues judgment concerning Italian national reference regarding payment of financial contributions to undertakings in iron and steel foundries The Court of Justice delivered its ruling in Joined Cases C- 746/23 Cividale and Flag and C- 747/23 Duferco Italia Holding and Duferco Sertubi, following a national reference from Italy. The referring court sought guidance on whether, amongst other matters, a measure laid down by domestic legislation may amount to ‘aid’ for the purposes and objectives of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU. Background Flag Sel ( Flag), wholly owned by Cividale Sp A ( Civdale), owns a foundry in Marcon comprising two separate production units. Flag and Cividale concluded an arrangement addressing employment matters. On 18 June 2004, pursuant to Italian law, Flag applied to the Ministry for Economic Development ( MISE) for a financial contribution to support the...
Restructuring & Insolvency weekly highlights—13 March 2025 In this issue: Key R& I law developments Corporate insolvency Personal insolvency Restructuring Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation The office-holder R& I in Scotland Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals New Q& A Key R& I law developments Key R& I law developments Companies House announces launch for authorised agent registration service Companies House confirmed its platform to enrol authorised corporate service providers ( ACSPs) will go live on 18 March 2025, after a short postponement. As part of implementing the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, the service will allow trust and company service providers and other professional providers supervised for anti money laundering in the UK to obtain ACSP status. Those providers will then be permitted to perform...
The government said late on 11 March 2025 that the Payments Systems Regulator ( PSR) will be mainly consolidated into the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA). The watchdog currently oversees payment systems, including UK banking service Faster Payments and Mastercard. The government added that the change should simplify matters for firms by creating one port of call. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the previous government had hidden behind regulators, deferring decisions and allowing rules to swell and obstruct meaningful growth in this country. He described the move as the latest step in efforts to kick-start economic growth. Businesses have long argued the regulatory set-up is too complicated. According to the government, payment system companies must engage with three authorities: the PSR the FCA the Prudential Regulation Authority, the regulatory arm of the Bank......
Minister for Pensions, Torsten Bell MP Speaking to delegates at the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association ( PLSA) conference in Edinburgh on 11 March 2025, Torsten Bell MP said the government will firmly press on with the proposals first trailed in November 2024 to bring LGPS assets together by next spring. Ministers aim to fold the £400bn LGPS into a small number of larger vehicles overseeing a much bigger pool. At present, the LGPS is divided across 86 compact funds operated by administering authorities, each valued between £300m and £30bn. Bell added that the government intends to “stick to the timetable” of March 2026......
The first environmental competition class action was regarded as a key test for the limits of the UK collective proceedings regime Thames Water and several peers were accused of leveraging monopoly power to mislead watchdogs about the volume of sewage discharged, allowing them to charge more to customers. However, on 7 March 2025, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ( CAT) held that the collective proceedings order ( CPO) pursued by environmental consultant Carolyn Roberts was barred by the Water Industry Act 1991 ( WIA 1991). The tribunal indicated it would have certified the case but for this targeted statutory carve-out. ' The CAT didn't dismiss it as merely an environmental claim', Simon Day, a Macfarlanes LLP partner, said. ' Their conclusion was that this is a competition claim, but it's a particular sort of claim that is excluded by a statutory regime, and...
On 11 March 2025, lawmakers voiced worries over clauses on EU– UK data adequacy in the bill and pressed for a 'crucial' fix. Speaking at a conference on 12 March 2025, Bryant said they would complete the legislation and aimed to have it on the statute book by Easter, or within a fortnight after. He acknowledged the Data ( Use and Access) Bill was probably two or three years out of date and should have been addressed sooner. The UK is now on its third bid to overhaul its post‑ Brexit data protection regime, yet he remained 'very hopeful' the bill will satisfy EU data adequacy requirements. Bryant noted the UK has already held talks with leaders at the European Commission. Back in December 2024, the EU’s executive initiated its review of the adequacy decision that underpins substantial data transfers between the EU and the...
In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental assessment Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental information Environmental liabilities, due diligence and insurance ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Hydrogen— Disputes on the Horizon? The drive towards net zero is accelerating. As countries target differing levels of decarbonisation within their energy industries by 2030 and 2050, many view hydrogen—particularly low carbon hydrogen—as set to take a key position in the future energy mix. Drawing on their wider energy disputes experience, Tom Cummins and Matthew Harnett of Ashurst LLP set out seven potential areas of contention that could arise as low carbon hydrogen projects are rolled out more widely. Originally published on the ICLG website. See News Analysis: Hydrogen— Disputes on the Horizon?......
Boyd v Hughes [2025] EWHC 435 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? The court followed the step-by-step methodology to the Animals Act set out in Dennis v Voute and another [2022] EWHC 2117. Each subsection requires sequential consideration and fulfilment in turn. The ruling further supplies fresh authority in Animals Act disputes and claims on how far the court will weigh case-specific factors when assessing both the risk of harm and the risk of severe harm in any incidents with domesticated animals. More specificity will usually, though not invariably, favour the claimant. It emphasises that these evaluations should be anchored to the concrete features of the incident under scrutiny. Animals Act practitioners should scrutinise whether, where no obvious trigger explains the behaviour under review, it may properly be treated as characteristic rather than general or normal conduct. In...
In this edition: WTO Customs Daily and weekly news updates New and refreshed content WTO Canada initiates WTO dispute challenging US over new trade duties Canada has launched World Trade Organisation ( WTO) dispute proceedings against the United States over recently announced ad valorem tariffs......
In this issue: EU fundamentals Commercial Competition and state aid Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals European Commission releases March 2025 infringement package The European Commission has released the March 2025 infringement package, identifying the EU Member States it is pursuing for breaches of obligations under EU law. This tranche covers letters of formal notice, reasoned opinions, and referrals to the Court of Justice directed to Estonia, Italy, Hungary, France, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Croatia, Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, Bulgaria, Greece, Belgium, Spain, and others, in relation to a range of directives and regulations, including the Medium Combustion Plants Directive, the Free Movement Directive, the Firearms Directive, the Package Travel Directive, and the European Arrest Warrant Framework...
In this issue: AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Data protection Cybersecurity Other Practice Compliance updates this week Question of the week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing EU regulator eyes harmonised AML enforcement Law360, London: Europe’s banking supervisor supports the EU’s forthcoming anti-money laundering ( AML) authority taking a consistent approach to enforcement across member states, with sanctions calibrated to the seriousness of breaches. See News Analysis: EU regulator eyes harmonised AML enforcement. Spotlight on Corruption reports ongoing deficiencies in legal sector AML Spotlight on Corruption has reviewed the latest statutory AML reports from legal sector supervisors, building on its 2022 probe that exposed major supervisory gaps. The assessment highlights enduring doubts over the effectiveness of AML oversight in the legal profession, with earlier findings of widespread non-compliance and limited enforcement still unresolved. Despite the Office for Professional Body AML Supervision’s ( OPBAS) remit, it has not...
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