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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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Oni and others v London Borough of Waltham Forest and others ( Case Nos 3204635/2021, 2300852/2022 and 3302687/2022) Judge John Crosfill held that stopping three women— Pauline Oni, Paulette Dawkins and Angela Reid—from suing the London councils that placed children with them for alleged discrimination is “an unjustified interference” with their rights to freedom of expression and privacy. In a judgment dated 2 January 2025 and released on 29 January 2025, he determined that foster carers cannot invoke European case law to secure daily respite or annual leave from their responsibilities. He ruled that the 24/7 nature of the role is incompatible with much of the protection in the 2003 Working Time Directive. Bound by the Court of Appeal authority W v Essex County Council [1998] 3 All ER 111, he concluded foster carers do not serve under a contract of...
What was the background to the PPF's consultation on the 2025/26 levy rules? The Pension Protection Fund ( PPF) is financed through a levy charged to all defined benefit pension schemes. What each scheme pays depends partly on its size and partly on the likelihood of it entering the PPF, assessed by both the scheme’s funding position and the sponsoring employer’s insolvency risk. Every year, before the levy is applied, the PPF runs a consultation setting out proposals on the total levy it expects to collect and the approach for allocating charges to individual schemes. Although the core methodology typically remains broadly consistent year on year, the consultation details adjustments to key assumptions and identifies specific elements of the methodology that are being revised. What was the outcome? The consultation was conducted from 12 September to 23 October 2024, and the outcome was issued, a little later than...
Monterey Insight stands as the foremost independent investment fund industry researcher, covering 100% of funds and their service providers operating or domiciled in Ireland, the UK, Luxembourg, Jersey and Guernsey. Commenting on the rankings, Etain de Valera, Partner and Head of the Asset Management and Investment Funds Department, noted: ' Dillon Eustace is delighted to have maintained our position as No 1 legal adviser to Irish-domiciled funds.'......
Mergers The CMA has issued the full text of its phase 1 ruling clearing the proposed acquisition of Carlsberg UK Holdings Limited by Britvic plc—see further, the decision note. For every live merger before the CMA, consult UK mergers—ongoing cases tracker. Upcoming dates For timings of forthcoming UK competition developments, please see the UK Competition calendar......
R (on the application of Chong and others) v Financial Services Compensation Scheme Ltd [2024] EWHC 3374 ( Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment underscores that any bright-line policy will inevitably produce winners and losers, yet it may still be lawful so long as it is rational. Though obiter, the court’s remarks on the FSCS policy concerning appeals from pre‑ April decisions are noteworthy: while elements of the approach might be rational, albeit severe, it could nonetheless operate arbitrarily, such as where appeal rights were curtailed even for those who had only just received their decision letters. The court ultimately found it unnecessary to reach a concluded view on that matter, because the judicial review failed: allowing the claim to proceed would have constituted an abuse of process by permitting an out‑of‑time collateral challenge to the underlying policy in a...
Mergers The Commission authorised: the formation of a joint venture by KONČAR - Electrical Industry Inc. and Siemens Energy Holding B. V. ( M.11804) after a phase I inquiry—see further, Midday Express the purchase of sole control of Buderus Edelstahl Gmb H by Mutares SE & Co......
APPG on investment fraud and fairer financial services Bob Blackman, who chairs the All- Party Parliamentary Group, stated that the FCA has failed to seriously engage with the cross-party panel’s report issued in November 2024. That paper judged the FCA not fit for purpose, urging government intervention and a far-reaching overhaul to tackle its ‘significant shortcomings’ so it can function as an effective regulator. After an almost three-year inquiry, it pressed for rapid internal and external, government-led reforms at the FCA, having uncovered a litany of failings at the watchdog. Testimony from more than 170 whistleblowers and fraud victims, alongside serving and former FCA staff, depicted an organisation that ‘lacks integrity’ and does not act effectively on evidence, the document states. MPs also said the FCA squanders money, makes poor use of its powers, and that an ‘unsettling degree of consensus’ indicates a...
Collins and others v Wind Energy Holding Ltd [2025] EWHC 40 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling reinforces the formidable threshold that section 68 challenges must clear. Section 68 functions as a longstop safeguard for cases where a tribunal has seriously mishandled the arbitration in one of the ways identified in section 68(2). Court intervention is reserved for situations that are far removed from what could reasonably be expected of the arbitral process. The judgment also reconciles section 33 duties: on one side, ensuring each party a fair chance to put its case and answer the other’s arguments; on the other, preventing unnecessary delay or expense. Whether a tribunal has discharged these obligations is a context-specific question in every matter. It is a stringent standard, triggered by exceptional departures from proper process. The inquiry is...
Jonathan Gaisman KC of 7 King’s Bench Walk, acting for a consortium of all-risks insurers, told the High Court that war-risk carriers ought to indemnify lessors because a Russian state decree preventing the aircraft’s return was the operative cause of loss and a consequence of the conflict. He characterised the war-risk peril as meaning it is “bye bye to the planes” for the first time on the enactment. His comments came in closing submissions in a hearing expected to serve as a test case for later disputes. Aircraft lessors maintain there is no realistic prospect that airframes and engines will ever come back. Major market names, including Chubb and Lloyd’s of London, could face multibillion-pound exposures if Judge Andrew Butcher decides they must meet claims for the missing aircraft. Opening on 2 October 2024, the trial places contingent liability policies under close...
JXX (a protected party by his litigation friend ABB) v Archibald [2025] Lexis Citation 43 In JXX (a protected party by his litigation friend ABB) v Archibald [2025] Lexis Citation 43, Costs Judge Rowley addressed a challenge where the defendant said the claimant’s Bill of Costs was defective because no expert fee notes were supplied and there were no separate itemisations for the medical agency’s charges and the experts’ own fees. The defendant invited the court either to strike out the Bill or to assess the expert fees at nil. Having examined the key points, the judge concluded that comparisons could be drawn with the often sparse detail on counsel’s fee notes, which still require judicial scrutiny. Mr Mallalieu submitted—and the court accepted—that further particulars can be demanded where necessary. However, on a standard basis assessment the evidential burden rests with the...
On 23 January 2025, the CMA unveiled two further investigations into whether any company possesses SMS in relation to certain digital activities, this time concentrated on Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems (see LNB News 23/01/2025 15). The CMA will evaluate whether each of Apple and Google has SMS for the provision of specified services within their mobile ecosystems and, if so, whether to impose measures (conduct requirements) to protect competition, consumers and/or businesses. The announcement lands just a week after the CMA disclosed its first SMS investigation, concerning Google’s general search services (see LNB News 14/01/2025 26). The emergence of three investigations in quick succession shows the CMA moving promptly to deploy the strengthened powers to review digital markets that it obtained at the start of 2025. What is a ‘mobile ecosystem? ......
Mergers The CMA released the complete wording of its Phase 1 ruling regarding the proposed takeover by Synopsys, Inc....
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report Released on 7 January 2025, the report aggregates responses from 1,000+ employers worldwide, covering 14 million-plus workers across 55 economies, and concludes that uptake of DEI (also known as EDI) keeps climbing. For observers tracking the political turbulence—after a polarising US election and strident anti‑ DEI commentary from high‑profile politicians, corporate figures and Wall Street leaders—this may seem unexpected. Only months ago, Bloomberg News characterised DEI efforts on Wall Street as 'anxious, fraught and changing fast', while Subha Barry, ex‑diversity chief at Merrill Lynch, declared, ' We're past the peak'. Yet the WEF now reports 83% of employers have DEI measures in place, a sharp rise from 67% in 2023. It further notes that accessing diverse talent pools ranks within the top five most effective business practices for boosting talent...
Background Debate has persisted over the scope of the definition of ‘ ICT services’ under DORA, continuing into the final push towards the 17 January 2025 implementation date, across the sector as a whole. As a consequence, financial entities encountered genuine, day‑to‑day challenges as they sought to have their ‘ DORA contracts’ finalised in time for that implementation date, and to do so on schedule. In practice, many felt obliged either to take an expansive reading of the definition or, alternatively, to adopt a ‘wait and see’ stance, while nevertheless taking key preparatory steps to manage ICT risk arising from the relationship in the absence of a full ‘ DORA contract’. In October 2024, industry stakeholders called on the European Supervisory Authorities to issue formal guidance on the scope of the definition, as referenced in our earlier client insight....
Justice Stephen Males in the Court of Appeal held that the claim that Marsh failed to secure appropriate motor insurance for vehicles hired overseas by Norman Hay plc staff and group companies could not be summarily rejected. The judgment observes: for a court to assess whether a breach of duty caused loss, it must be told what, specifically, the defendant ought to have done. Males J indicated that further detail is required about the brief given to Marsh, the obligations it assumed, and whether a competent broker in Marsh’s position should have offered different advice on the availability of non-owned motor cover. Norman Hay contends that Marsh, whether negligently or in breach of contract, failed to appreciate that the chemical group’s senior employees needed adequate liability insurance when travelling on business abroad......
Justice William Davis of the Court of Appeal’s criminal division authorised the SFO to pursue enforcement action against Guralp Systems Ltd over an alleged breach of the financial terms of a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement ( DPA). He dismissed Guralp’s contention that the DPA no longer had effect because the agency missed the deadline to seek court enforcement. Instead, he held it was an ‘implied’ term of the non-prosecution agreement that the SFO had a ‘reasonable time’ to inform the company of any failure to pay in full and, if necessary, to apply to the court to enforce the breach. A spokesperson for the SFO said the agency was ‘pleased the court agreed with our arguments’ and that it would ‘continue proceedings in relation to the first breach of a DPA’. The ruling enables the SFO to ask the court to decide whether a...
Significant regulatory overhauls remain on the horizon, and the country seems set to drift further from the EU’s rulebook in the near future. Practitioners in regulation argue that the break with Europe has opened the door for Britain to cement its role as a global centre for financial services. This reorientation from European to worldwide markets has, in turn, prompted forecasts that looser rules at home could turn Britain into a ‘new Bermuda’ for international insurance. According to Andrew Northage, a partner at Walker Morris LLP, the signal is unmistakable: the UK intends not only to maintain its status as a top-tier global insurance market, but to recast itself as an even more appealing venue for both domestic and overseas participants. ' Passporting' Rights One of the most consequential Brexit shifts was the end of so-called passporting for banks and insurers....
The prolongation aims to allow time to roll out the European Market Infrastructure Regulation ( EMIR 3). EMIR 3 includes steps intended to enhance the appeal and competitiveness of the EU’s clearing markets. That should curb the EU’s excessive dependence on systemically important UK CCPs, thereby lowering medium-term risks to EU financial stability. The European Commission has taken a decision to advance its implementation further......
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