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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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Djanogly v Djanogly, BL-2022-001413 What are the practical implications of this case? Challenges under AA 1996, s 68 seldom succeed; applicants face a steep threshold ( K v P [2019] EWHC 589 ( Comm)). Relief under s 68(2)(d) arises only where the tribunal has failed to tackle an issue that is significant or fundamental to the dispute (see paras [111]–[115]). That said, arbitrators must be careful to engage with every important point. Parties and tribunals handling claims pursued under laws that are not the laws of another country should remain alert to the application of the 1980. What was the background? One respondent, DD, sought maintenance from his sons, SD and AD, under Jewish law. The matter was first considered informally, leading to a Psak Din issued by a judge of the Beth Din of the Federation of Synagogues. When this failed to settle matters, AD and DD...
Keepers and Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Free Grammar School of John Lyon, Within the Town of Harrow-on-the Hill v His Majesty’s Attorney- General [2024] EWHC 2857 ( Ch) What practical consequences flow from this decision? The central dispute in the proceedings concerned whether circumstances existed to trigger a cy-près application......
R (on the application of Simpson) v NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board [2024] EWHC 3063 ( Admin) [ Case name and citation] What are the practical implications of this case? Fordham J’s judgment clarifies that, when courts review CHC packages, they must strike a careful equilibrium: applying close scrutiny while also honouring the decision-maker’s primary role. He stresses the importance of steering clear of an unduly legalistic stance that would impose ‘over-exacting demands’ on decision-makers. This approach aligns with how the reasonableness (or rationality) threshold is used in other settings that engage fundamental rights yet also entail complex choices about allocating resources. Practitioners advising clients who are challenging CHC packages may find it helpful to appreciate more fully the way the reasonableness standard was worked through on the particular facts of this case......
What has been the impact of the new discount rate? The most immediate and evident effect of the revised discount rate is a decrease in the value of future loss awards. This mirrors the Lord Chancellor’s stated view that claimants can now achieve stronger investment returns than before. The expert panel advising the Lord Chancellor considered it reasonable to assume claimants obtain CPI plus 1%. In the accompanying impact statement, this was projected to produce an annual fall in settlement values of about £350m, comprising expected savings of roughly £200m per year for the NHS and around £150m per year for insurers. The reduction in future loss is best demonstrated by an example. Consider a 40-year-old male with average life expectancy settling a personal injury claim, on the following assumptions: Loss of earnings of £35,000 per annum to retirement at 65; Care of...
Mergers Topps Tiles/ CTD Tiles merger meets the test for reference to phase 2 The CMA has announced its ruling that the concluded purchase by Topps Tiles Plc ( Topps) of selected assets from Tildist Realisations Limited (formerly CTD Tiles Limited) ( CTD) satisfies the criteria required to meet a phase 2 reference. Topps, the UK’s largest dedicated tile retailer, runs more than 300 outlets nationwide, also supplying tiles and related products to both retail and trade customers......
Professional services firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young EY, the professional services group once known as Ernst & Young, expects income from general life insurance premiums to grow by 5.2% in 2025, easing from an 8.4% rise in 2024. Insurers had to sharply increase motor and home premiums in 2024 as the price of replacement parts and construction materials jumped. However, motor insurance costs in particular have fallen back through late 2024 and into early 2025. According to EY, insurers are benefiting from reduced claims expenses, while interest in discretionary cover is on the up......
Mare Nova Inc v Zhangjiagang Jiushun Ship Engineering Co Ltd [2025] EWHC 223 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? This decision serves as a caution to arbitrators against introducing issues not advanced by the parties; if they do, they must invite submissions on the new point. While section 68 challenges rarely prevail, denying parties the chance to make representations on a material issue, or the converse—failing to engage with a significant point put by the parties (see Djanogly v Djanogly)—can lead to the award being set aside. What was the background? The claimant shipowner commenced arbitration against the defendant shipyard, seeking damages for breach of contract and negligence, together with sums alleged due under a contractual guarantee, arising out of repair works undertaken by the shipyard......
The Association of British Insurers ( ABI) The Association of British Insurers ( ABI) said its members are pushing to lower premiums for policyholders, despite an 18% rise on the previous record payout of £9.9bn in 2023. The trade body added that policyholders could be hit again if the government increases insurance premium tax in the next Budget. ‘ Industry is doing all that it can, but it is now for government to take the necessary action to tackle high claim costs,’ said Mark Shepherd, head of general insurance policy at the ABI. And it is vital that government does......
AFP Assets Ltd v Hugill and others [2025] EWHC 256 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment is a timely reminder for practitioners across diverse fields of the principle in Reinwood Ltd v L Brown & Sons Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1090: a party bringing a contract to an end may later uphold that step by relying on facts that existed at the time but were not articulated in the termination notice. In this case, those matters were known to the parties when the notice was given, although that is not a prerequisite; frequently they are not known then, hence their omission. As such, the point can be a potent tool for a terminating party facing a challenge to its notice, and it is certainly something advisers to recipients should keep in mind. It therefore pays both those issuing and those...
The carrier, operating services linking cities across Florida and the Caribbean, entered bankruptcy on 30 December 2024. It explained that opting to transition to a different aeroplane maker severely upended its operations when the replacement supplier failed to consistently provide and timely deliver new aircraft. The company’s funded liabilities are divided between equity owner Versa Capital Management’s US$211m of second-lien borrowings and US$186m in convertible notes held by Brigade Capital Management, which is receiving advice in the matter from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. Brian P Hall Smith Gambrell Hall serves as a partner with Smith Gambrell and leads the firm’s finance, banking and restructuring practice, based out of its Atlanta office......
During a hybrid hearing US Bankruptcy Judge Sean H Lane indicated that Spirit’s debt-for-equity exchange plan was, for the most part, fit for confirmation, though concerns raised by the US Trustee’s Office over the plan’s third-party releases warranted further consideration. He noted that the sole live dispute related to the releases and, subject to the confirmation order, all other confirmation requirements were satisfied. He stressed there was no disagreement on anything else, he told the parties. Accordingly, apart from the challenged releases, he said the confirmation requirements were met. The judge added that he would rule promptly so the parties could know whether the plan might proceed towards its effective date with the releases preserved and intact. Marshall S. Huebner of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel to the debtor, said Spirit and its affiliates’ cases had thus far progressed swiftly and...
The UK Supreme Court, due to open the appeal on 1 April 2025, formally told both parties on 17 February 2025 that leave had been denied. It offered no detailed public explanation whatsoever at all for its decision to refuse HM Treasury’s January 2025 application to participate in appeals filed by the lenders after the Court of Appeal ruled that any sums paid to dealerships for arranging finance must be fully revealed to customers. The government voiced serious concern that the judgment could have a significant and potentially harmful effect on the market. The Treasury did not promptly respond to a further immediate public request for comment on......
The publishers, including Guardian News & Media Ltd, the Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and the Mc Clatchy Co LLC, have filed a complaint accusing the Canadian AI firm of using copyright-protected works to train its large language models ( LLMs). It is the latest action by media companies and publishers against LLM developers that typically rely on vast bodies of data. The claimants contend Cohere went beyond training on restricted material: its systems sometimes reproduce protected content word for word, or generate incorrect answers that are wrongly attributed to the publishers. The complaint asserts the company has not only taken their works but also blatantly invents fake pieces and links them to the publishers, misleading the public and damaging their brands... A Cohere spokesperson said the company strongly stands by its practices for responsibly training its enterprise AI, adding that it has long...
Thomas and others v PJSC National Bank Trust [2025] EWHC 75 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? Insolvency office-holders ought to assess if payments to creditors could be barred by sanctions laws (here, those relating to Russia). Such regimes can impact individuals or entities not directly designated where a sanctioned person owns or controls them. Carve-outs can exist; as in this matter, distributions were allowed because the duty to pay crystallised prior to the sanctions framework taking effect. Accordingly, even where a creditor is not named, ownership or control by a designated person can trigger the rules. Timing of the obligation to pay may therefore determine permissibility. What was the background? After NBT collapsed in 2014, it sued Nikolay Fetisov and Ilya Yurov (‘the Bankrupts’). When judgment was handed down, they were required to pay NBT roughly US$900m, prompting bankruptcy...
Macdonald Hotels Ltd v Bank of Scotland Plc [2025] EWHC 32 ( Comm) Relevant facts The High Court examined allegations brought against Bank of Scotland Plc ( BOS) by Macdonald Hotels Limited ( MHL) arising from the compelled sale of three properties: the Randolph Hotel, the Old England Hotel and the Marine Hotel (the Hotels). MHL contended that disposals occurred when valuations were unusually depressed, contravening implied terms of a facility agreement and, in relation to the Randolph, express provisions in a shareholders agreement. MHL further maintained that BOS ought to have allowed repayment by alternative means (including third‑party refinancing) and/or over an extended timescale. Resolving the dispute required review of years of dialogue, intricate documentation, and numerous detailed amendments. Careful consideration was required to identify and fully determine the issues arising in the case. This note concentrates on the funding...
Mergers Notifications were filed with the Commission for: Safran/ Part of Collins Aerospace’s Actuation and Flight Control Activities ( M.11253) (ordinary merger procedure) EDFT/ Jera/ Powerco ( M.11915) (simplified merger procedure) Triton/ Keenfinity ( M.11872) (simplified merger procedure) GA/ TA/ TSYL Topco ( M.11838) (simplified merger procedure) Ingredion/ Agrana/ AGFD ( M.11780) (simplified merger procedure) Alcentra/ People & Baby ( M.11920) (simplified merger procedure) Public versions of the Commission’s phase I clearance decisions were released in: JBT/ Marel ( M.11615)—see further, decision Cinven/ Aise/ Fressnapf (...
TPR to go 'further' on prudential regulation for the wider market Nausicaa Delfas, chief executive of TPR, wrote in a blog that the regulator will go 'further' than the blueprint set out in November 2024, shifting towards a prudential model that scans the wider market as a whole, instead of merely tackling risks at an individual scheme level. Last year, TPR said its role as regulator would evolve as pension schemes consolidate into much larger megafunds, effectively becoming too big to fail. Delfas said at the time that TPR would adopt a prudential approach to market supervision, akin to the Bank of England's role as it manages banks and insurance companies. On 17 February 2025, the chief executive warned that, if collaboration with the industry does not address challenges across the sector, 2025 will be characterised by regulatory...
Christie v Mary Ward Legal Centre [2025] EWHC 330 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? Practitioners engaged in advancing or resisting professional negligence claims, particularly those directed at legal advisers, will find this judgment both useful and noteworthy. It grapples with fine-grained factual questions and intricate legal terrain, features that frequently characterise such litigation. It also underscores that, where pivotal pieces of evidence are not supplied by a client to their legal representative, responsibility will ordinarily not rest with the latter. That broad proposition does not, of course, absolve omissions to request documents or to pursue the proper enquiries. Having cleared the law centre and counsel of negligence, the judge went further, setting out why he considered both had assisted the client as effectively as the circumstances permitted. He even appeared to go out of his way to commend them. The tone of the...
Looking ahead, the Land Use Framework ( LUF) is set to drive delivery of the government’s Plan for Change, working in tandem with the Farming Roadmap and the Food Strategy. It will steer trade-offs in how land is used— from new homes and renewable schemes to safeguarding farmland and restoring nature. Significant unease has already surfaced about how these priorities will be weighed. Among the most divisive proposals are those for infrastructure and large-scale housebuilding. Key issues include: Nature preservation National charities, such as the RSPB and the Wildlife Trust, have swiftly objected to plans to pare back planning safeguards, including on‑site ecological surveys. The Chancellor noted that removal of regulation would mean developers could ‘focus on getting things built and stop worrying about the bats and the newts’. Creating ‘grey sites’ within the green belt has likewise prompted scrutiny, though these areas are meant to be...
The court rejected the Upper Tribunal ( UT) and affirmed a First-tier Tribunal ( FTT) ruling which concluded that the woman, identified in the judgment as P, was not a UK resident even though she spent more than 45 days here in the relevant tax year, the benchmark applied for the UK statutory residence test. It accepted the FTT’s assessment that six of the fifty days she was in the UK arose from ‘exceptional circumstances’, and therefore should be disregarded. Excluding those six days from the calculation, the court held HMRC accordingly could not levy tax on £8m of dividend income. The woman relocated from the UK to Ireland in April 2015, shortly ahead of the 2015–16 tax year commencing, while her husband continued to reside in their family home near Manchester......
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