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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: Key developments and materials Air pollution and climate change Building energy efficiency Energy for environmental lawyers Regulatory enforcement and prosecutions Environmental data and information Environmental permitting and consents Green taxes, reliefs and incentives ESG and sustainability Nature, biodiversity and habitat protection Sources of environmental law ( UK, EU and international) Waste Producer responsibility for waste Water, flood risk and drainage Lex Talk®Environment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Latest and updated content Key developments and materials OEP publishes report on government implementation of EPPS duty The Office for Environmental Protection has issued a report reviewing how government is meeting the section 19 Environment Act 2021 duty to have regard to the Environmental Principles Policy Statement. It notes encouraging early delivery, with solid preparation and process design in place. Nonetheless, the OEP flags missing building blocks for embedding the duty across government policy making—most notably its absence from HM Treasury’s Green Book. The report sets out eight core...
In this issue: Building safety JCT contracts Arbitration Adjudication Contract law Environmental issues Lex Talk®Construction: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q& As Construction trackers Building safety TCC makes first reported building liability order (381 Southwark Park v Click St Andrews) In 381 Southwark Park Road RTM Company Limited and others v Click St Andrews Limited and another [2024] EWHC 3569 ( TCC), the TCC appears to have issued the first reported building liability order under section 130 of the Building Safety Act 2022 ( BSA 2022). The successful parties were leaseholders of flats in a residential block. By an earlier judgment, the leaseholders had established that a developer was liable for defective works carried out to the block, which constituted ‘building safety risks’ for the...
The company noted in its yearly report that a ‘skilled person’, who was not identified by name, was conducting an independent assessment to update the FCA on whether firms within the Quilter Financial Planning network adhered to regulatory requirements in their provision of advice services. The financial services group stated it had identified ‘limited cases’ where clients had not received ongoing advice, after a review of its historic data, policies, and internal company procedures......
Mergers The Commission approved the purchase of shared control over Novolex Holdings, LLC and Pactiv Evergreen Inc...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Students Long residence, discretion and human rights EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Citizenship applications Lex Talk®Immigration: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights key forthcoming developments for business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Home Office launches ETA application system for European travellers ahead of mandatory implementation The Home Office has begun the concluding stage of its Electronic Travel Authorisation ( ETA) scheme, opening applications to European travellers in advance of mandatory use for those arriving on or after 2 April 2025. This follows the successful rollout to non- European nationals, including visitors from the USA, Canada and Australia, with around 1.1 million ETAs already granted. The £10 digital permission permits multiple trips of up to six months within a two-year period, or until the...
In this issue: Budgets and Finance Bills Taxes management and litigation Employment taxes VAT Funds Energy International Current issues Lex Talk®Tax: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Budgets and Finance Bills Finance Bill 2025 substantively enacted On Monday, 3 March, the Finance Bill 2025 cleared report stage and its third reading successfully in the House of Commons, with the government’s report-stage amendments duly agreed. For IFRS and UK GAAP, the Bill is now regarded as ‘substantively enacted’. The text transmitted from the Commons had its first reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 4 March. The Lords’ second reading, committee stage, report stage, and third reading are all firmly set for Wednesday, 19 March. To follow ongoing amendments to the Finance Bill as it moves through Parliament, see: Tax— Finance Bill 2025 tracker. CIOT issues Finance Bill 2025 briefing The CIOT has issued a briefing on the...
On 3 March 2025, Moody’s Ratings characterised the new mandatory obligation as “credit positive” for insurers, even though it introduces further balance sheet vulnerabilities arising from exposure to floods and other types of natural catastrophes. Effective 31 March 2025, the legislation covers every firm operating in Italy, and it also extends to foreign enterprises that maintain a local branch. An exemption exists for fishing and associated sectors, granting them until year-end 2025 to obtain the policy. According to unverified Italian media reports, in 2024 only 6% of households carry natural catastrophe insurance and 5%......
In this issue: Trade in goods WTO Customs Lex Talk® International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Trade in goods Tariffs to take effect on Canada and Mexico, Trump says, along with new China tariff MLex: On 27 February 2025, President Donald Trump announced that 25% duties on Canada and Mexico would begin the following week, alongside an extra 10% levy on China. These measures come into effect on 4 March 2025 for Canada and Mexico after he said both nations had failed to resolve border issues, while China on the same day will face a 10% charge added to an earlier 10% imposed in February 2025. See News Analysis: Tariffs to take effect on Canada, Mexico, Trump says, along with new China tariff. Trump says US will slap 25 per cent tariffs on all EU...
In this issue: Key DR developments Costs and funding Cross-border disputes Injunctions Pre-action and limitation Litigation New content Dates for your diary Useful information Lex Talk®Dispute Resolution: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Civil Procedure Rule Committee minutes Minutes from the Civil Procedure Rule Committee meeting of 6 December 2024—held in hybrid format at The Rolls Building ( Royal Courts of Justice) and via video conference—record discussions on Closed Material Procedure, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, the Online Procedure Rule Committee, the outcome of the Workplace Claims consultation, the Service Sub- Committee, the Lacuna Sub- Committee, and the winter Statutory Instrument and Practice Direction update. For more, see News Analysis: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—6 December 2024. CPR...
In this issue: Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Public procurement Equality and human rights Constitutional and administrative law Judicial review Information law Subsidy control and State aid Lex Talk®Public Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit highlights Court of Appeal rules on judicial review of Bulb Energy transfer ( R ( British Gas Trading Ltd) v Secretary of State for ESNZ) In R (on the applications of British Gas Trading Ltd and other companies) v The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero and others [2025] EWCA Civ 209, the Court of Appeal considered a challenge to the Divisional Court’s refusal to grant permission for judicial review of decisions by the...
In this issue: Planning policy Green belts Nationally significant infrastructure projects Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Planning policy The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG) has released its reply to the July 2023 consultation on delivering plan-making reforms under the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 ( LURA 2023). MHCLG states it will advance with many original proposals and stays focused on cutting the time to prepare a local plan—from an average seven years to a 30‑month schedule—while also securing universal plan coverage. Analysis to follow. See: LNB News 27/02/2025 50. MHCLG has also launched a consolidated page, ‘ Create or update a local plan’, offering materials for local planning authorities ( LPAs) preparing local plans. These tools reflect the prevailing planning policy and legal framework and signpost relevant parts of...
Consequently, the 2025 Act tracks shifting currents in arbitration, gathers together notable court-led developments and unveils focused reforms to boost procedural efficiency, enforcement and the powers of tribunals. Though the 2025 Act’s changes are incremental rather than radical, they tackle a number of persistent issues. New curbs on jurisdictional objections, the statutory footing for emergency arbitrators and the arrival of summary disposal are especially impactful. Notably, the new act settles the disputed governing law of arbitration agreements, strengthens arbitrator disclosure obligations and fine-tunes how arbitration interfaces with the courts. This piece reviews the principal features of the new act, setting them against the 1996 regime and assessing what they mean for commercial, investor-state and maritime arbitration. It closes by flagging the headline lessons for arbitration specialists, with a focus on procedural tactics and...
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Transferring property Easements, rights and covenants Statutory compliance Property development Property in Wales Lex Talk®Property: a Lexis®Nexis community Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Key developments and horizon scanning White Paper on reformed commonhold model in England and Wales The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG) has issued a White Paper setting out proposals for how a reformed commonhold regime would operate in England and Wales. It answers the Law Commission’s 2020 recommendations to revive commonhold as an alternative to leasehold and charts the next steps to make commonhold the default tenure. MHCLG also pledges to support a new Code of Practice on cost apportionment within commonhold and to tighten regulation of managing agents in...
In this issue: Corporate governance Company law and regulatory matters Useful information Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Corporate governance GSK plc and BAE Systems plc unveil new directors’ remuneration policies FTSE100 groups GSK plc and BAE Systems plc have released updated directors’ pay frameworks within their 2024 annual reports, each proposing meaningful rises for their CEOs. GSK plc has emphasised that its chief executive’s overall package sits below the lower quartile of its global biopharma peer set across all compensation metrics, with the sole exception of base pay, where she remains below the median. Accordingly, the CEO’s base pay will rise by 5%, and her on-target annual bonus will move from one times to 1.5 times salary, with the cap remaining three times salary under the new arrangements. The CEO’s LTIP award maximum will lift from six to...
In this issue: Criminal Liability Criminal procedure and evidence Appeal and judicial review Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Food safety and hygiene offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering Lex Talk®Corporate Crime: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Criminal Liability Three fraud reforms you might have missed in the Crime and Policing Bill. Tucked within legislation aimed at clamping down on phone thieves and anti-social behaviour in the government’s latest Crime and Policing Bill are a series of measures designed to give prosecutors greater leverage as they tackle economic crime. See News Analysis: Three fraud reforms you might have missed in the Crime and Policing Bill. Criminal procedure and evidence Consultation on private prosecution and single justice procedure reforms launched. The Ministry of Justice ( Mo J) has opened a consultation that proposes...
In this issue: Banking and Finance case round-up Lending Security Acquisition finance Guarantees Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Technology in banking & finance transactions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Banking and Finance case round-up For an overview of the cases we highlighted in Banking & Finance for February 2025, see News Analysis: Banking & Finance— February 2025 case round-up. Lending Società Italiana Lastre Spa v Agora SARL, Case C-537/23. The Court of Justice handed down its long-awaited first judgment concerning the compatibility of asymmetric jurisdiction clauses with the Brussels I (recast) Regulation and the 2007 Lugano Convention. The court concluded that the validity of such clauses must be assessed by reference to the autonomous framework in Article 25 of Regulation ( EU) 1215/2012 ( Brussels I (recast)), rather than under Member States’ national laws, and it confirmed their effectiveness wherever the clause can be construed as designating courts of EU or Lugano...
R (on the application of Sabhya Bano) v Waltham Forest London Borough Council [2025] EWCA Civ 92 What are the practical implications of this case? The principal implication is that an offer of suitable private rented sector accommodation, or suitable accommodation under HA 1996, Pt 6, constitutes adequate notification that acceptance or refusal of that accommodation likewise brings the continuing duty to secure temporary accommodation under HA 1996, s 193(2) to an end, without any requirement for the local authority to reach a further decision terminating the duty or to provide the applicant with any additional notice of such a decision. Moreover, judicial review is not the appropriate remedy; the correct route is a review under HA 1996, s 202, with a route to an appeal under HA 1996, s 204 if that review is defective. Further, the Court of Appeal identified that, where there are...
In this issue: Private equity (venture capital) Disclosure of beneficial ownership Equity capital markets Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Private equity (venture capital) BVCA updates model documents for early stage investments The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association ( BVCA) has revised and reissued its model documentation intended for early-stage venture capital investments, supplanting the February 2023 editions. See: LNB News 03/03/2025 18. Disclosure of beneficial ownership Companies House publishes guidance on protecting personal information on Register of Overseas Entities Companies House has published detailed guidance on safeguarding personal information on the Register of Overseas Entities ( ROE) for beneficial owners, managing officers, and trust members of overseas entities who face a serious risk of harm or intimidation if their details are publicly accessible. The guidance explains the process by which...
Originally published on the BCLP Website. England and Wales Adjudication Adjudication in England and Wales was brought in by the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. It has been widely praised and hailed as a major success for giving parties to construction contracts a quick, efficient and cost-effective form of resolving disputes. The intention of the legislation (alongside minimum standards for interim payment arrangements in construction contracts) was to sustain cash flow across the sector and thereby stop contractors and, in particular, subcontractors from being deprived of funds in the industry. Nevertheless, the interaction between the statutory frameworks of adjudication and insolvency has, since adjudication’s inception over 25 years ago, produced a considerable body of case law. A party to a construction contract may refer any dispute in respect of that contract to adjudication at any time. The result is a decision that is...
Germany and France call for a broader review of the AVMSD Germany and France are urging a more extensive, in‑depth reassessment of the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive ( AVMSD) to secure a genuine level playing field across the market, irrespective of intermediaries or distribution channels. In remarks on the latest draft political statement designed to shape the European Commission’s forthcoming AVMSD revision, Germany argued for ‘an even more far‑reaching and fundamental mandate’ to address fairness in light of shifting market realities. Poland, which is steering talks in the Council of the EU, is assembling the statement with contributions from other member states, ahead of the review due next year. Adopted in 2010 and updated in 2018, the directive’s initial statement draft floated bringing video‑sharing platforms such as You Tube, Instagram and Tik Tok within scope of additional obligations, while the second and most recent text...
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This Practice Note This Practice Note reviews mechanisms used in settling litigation. A Tomlin order consists of a consent order paired with a schedule. It operates to stay proceedings on terms that have been agreed. The provisions contained in the schedule may remain confidential. This Practice Note describes the scope of confidentiality attaching to the schedule and sets out how it differs from a standard consent order. Sample wording for a Tomlin order is included, alongside links to precedents, as well as guidance on court approval. It also addresses varying, setting aside and enforcing a Tomlin order, including the considerations the court will take into account when handling applications for each. Further guidance is provided on interpreting and applying the relevant provisions of the CPR; however, some courts and divisions impose very specific requirements for both drafting and approval, and for approaching the schedule and confidentiality issues. Accordingly, you must consider the particular rules and court guide provisions in the forum where your claim is proceeding when drawing up the Tomlin order...
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