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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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Asset Management & Investment Funds— EU & International Developments- January 2025 ESMA consultation on RTS for loan-originating AIFs ESMA has released a consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards ( RTS) for loan‑originating alternative investment funds ( LO AIFs) under the AIFMD. Under AIFMD II, LO AIFs are, as a rule, closed‑ended. By way of exception, an LO AIF may operate on an open‑ended basis if the AIFM can demonstrate to its competent authority that the fund’s liquidity risk management framework is consistent with its investment strategy and redemption terms. AIFMD II assigns ESMA the task of drafting RTS that specify the conditions LO AIFs must satisfy to preserve an open‑ended structure. Under AIFMD, those conditions must include: a robust liquidity management system access to liquid assets and the use of stress testing a redemption policy calibrated to the liquidity profile of LO...
Background On 10 October 2024, the Labour government unveiled the Employment Rights Bill ( ERB). The ERB consolidated a series of individual and manifesto pledges made by the Labour party during its election campaign, promised for delivery within the first 100 days of a Labour administration. After completing the First and Second Readings in the House of Commons ( Ho C), the Bill advanced to the Committee stage for detailed examination. The Committee phase for the Bill, in the Commons, which entails tabling, presenting and debating a range of proposed amendments by government and non-government organisations, commenced on 26 November 2024. On 27 November 2024, the Ho C issued the Employment Rights Bill ( Amendment Paper) ( ERB Amendment Paper) setting out the various proposed amendments to the Bill. On 27 January 2025, following the conclusion of the Ho C Committee stage on 17...
Tactus Holdings Ltd (in administration) v Jordan and others [2025] EWHC 133 ( Comm) What was the background? Tactus Holdings Ltd (in liquidation) ( Tactus) issued proceedings against seven individuals, the defendants, alleging a breach of warranty under a Share Purchase Agreement ( SPA) that Tactus had entered into for the purchase of shares in a company in February 2022 In May 2024, Tactus purported to transfer its rights and claims under the SPA to Chillblast Ltd ( Chillblast) via the ‘ Tactus Assignment’ Earlier, in March 2024, Chillblast acquired from Santander UK plc debts owed by Tactus under the ‘ Santander Assignment’, which provided for a share of proceeds arising from Tactus’s claims against the defendants The defendants resisted Chillblast’s application to be substituted as the claimant, asserting that the Tactus Assignment was ineffective on the basis that it was both prohibited by the SPA and...
The Association of British Insurers ( ABI) announced in a report dated 29 January 2025 that small and medium-sized enterprises face exposure to cyber attacks, yet are failing to make use of insurance cover to help reduce the risk. According to the research, many companies felt their likelihood of suffering a cyber incident was low, or believed policies were too pricey to meet their needs. Compiled with accountants Grant Thornton UK LLP, the report urges SMEs to raise their uptake of insurance solutions to defend against cyber attacks. It also says SMEs should confront the widespread lack of understanding about the nature and scale of cyber threats across the sector......
MLex was informed by the Data Protection Commission that it has written to Deep Seek seeking details about how it processes data relating to individuals in Ireland. The watchdog declined to add anything more for now. Ordinarily, the DPC acts as the principal data regulator handling privacy issues involving major technology companies in the EU, since many base their European headquarters there. However, Deep Seek’s operators lack an EU establishment, so any member state authority is able to open a probe into issues impacting its own jurisdiction directly too......
Mergers The CMA approved the proposed purchase by (i) Outbrain Inc. of Teads S. A., and (ii) Altice Teads S. A. of a minority shareholding in Outbrain Inc.......
One Medicare (trading as One Primary Care LLP) v NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board [2025] EWHC 63 ( TCC) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling underscores the ongoing success of contracting bodies in securing the removal of the automatic suspension. It restates the criteria that steer the court when confronted with applications of this sort, stressing the role of adequacy of damages, but above all the balance of convenience. While the court accepted—though with some reluctance—that damages would not adequately compensate the claimant, the claimant was unable to surmount the substantial non-financial consequences the authority would face were the suspension to remain. As a result, the balance of convenience favoured the authority and the suspension was lifted. The judgment provides helpful guidance on applying these tests in public procurement disputes, particularly where vital services, including healthcare, are at stake. It also...
HMRC v Bluecrest Capital Management ( UK) LLP [2025] EWCA Civ 23. What are the practical implications of this case? This decision is highly consequential and may load considerable extra expense onto investment managers and professional services businesses. Its ultimate reach will not be clear until the FTT re-examines the issues (and any near-inevitable further appeals are resolved), or if the dispute proceeds to the Supreme Court. As a result, numerous professional partnerships remain in prolonged uncertainty about their eventual tax treatment. A great many partnerships depend upon the safe harbours within the salaried members regime to remain outside its ambit. The income tax dimension of those provisions is material yet broadly containable; affected individuals would probably bear a similar tax burden, collected through PAYE rather than self-assessment (and many firms already make income tax reserves in a manner comparable to PAYE). The more...
The Department for Work and Pensions signalled an intent to overhaul what it described as ‘outdated rules’ that currently stop the PPF cutting its levy beneath a £100m-a-year floor. Delivering this change needs primary legislation through Parliament, and commentators expect ministers to fold the measures into the forthcoming Pension Schemes Bill, anticipated in Spring 2025. The initiative follows the government’s move to permit corporate sponsors of pension schemes to draw down funding surpluses for reinvestment in their companies. “ This proposal, alongside our ambition to unlock billions of surplus from defined benefit pension schemes, demonstrates we are laser focused on the long-term reforms that will expand our economy,” said Torsten Bell, Minister for Pensions......
What is the CNI regime? Critical National Infrastructure ( CNI) encompasses the physical and digital assets, sites, and networks that keep a nation running, underpinning the health, safety, security, and economic prosperity of its people. In the UK, the basis for CNI rests on a mix of long-standing government programmes, statutory duties, and policy directives intended to protect pivotal industries. Together, they support the functioning of the country and the well-being of its population. Collectively, these elements are indispensable to national operations and the welfare of citizens. The regime arose from the imperative to shield vital services and infrastructure central to national security, economic resilience, and public protection—a subject under review by many states from the mid-twentieth century. That imperative sharpened towards the close of the twentieth century as threats from terrorism, espionage, and cyberattacks...
Antitrust Commission launches consultation on the Transfer Technology Block Exemption The Commission has opened a consultation on possible revisions to Regulation 316/2014, which applies Article 101(3) TFEU to categories of technology transfer agreements, known as the technology transfer block exemption regulation ( TTBER), together with its related Guidelines on the application of Article 101 TFEU to technology transfer agreements ( Guidelines). In November 2024, it released evaluation findings indicating that both the TTBER and the Guidelines remain pertinent and have, to a large extent, succeeded in promoting the effective, efficient and consistent application of EU competition rules for technology transfer agreements. Nonetheless, the assessment also pinpointed aspects where the TTBER and the Guidelines could be refined to bolster legal certainty and better mirror recent developments in the marketplace. This process seeks views on the options under consideration at present......
Here, Law360 looks at why justices upheld Khan's designation and other takeaways from the Court of Appeal's 24 January 2025 judgment. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) licensing route — designed to allow designated people to cover essentials like water and power — was overwhelmed to the point that, the Court of Appeal heard, Anzhelika Khan spent months waiting for official clearance simply to buy food for herself and her children. Delivering a scathing assessment, the judges observed that Khan could have faced prosecution for the mere act of eating. The court concluded that the government had given scant consideration to how those subject to an OFSI asset freeze were meant to get by without breaking the law. “ It is striking that the judges condemned this regime as profoundly inhumane, effectively forcing a mother to choose between obeying the law and...
Banking & Finance— December 2024 and January 2025 case round-up R (on the application of LIT FM Holdings UK Ltd and another) v Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet Office (formerly Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) [2024] EWHC 2963 ( Admin) Challenge to an unwinding order under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 The claimants, companies within the Letter One Group established to make long-term investments in other businesses across the energy, technology, health and retail sectors, pursued re-amended judicial review grounds seeking a quashing order, declarations and damages under sections 7 and 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998. Their challenge targeted a ‘ Final Order’ (the Order) issued pursuant to section 26(3) of the National Security and Investment Act 2021 on national security grounds. The Order obliged the first claimant to divest 100% of its shares in Upp...
In this issue: Data protection Reputation management Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection China’s Deep Seek AI model raises new challenges for EU and UK data regulators. This generative tool, developed in China, saw rapid global uptake in the week beginning 27 January 2025, particularly following its launch as a mobile app, triggering caution from European privacy regulators. See News Analysis: China’s Deep Seek AI model poses fresh concerns for EU and UK data regulators. Data Protection ( Charges and Information) ( Amendment) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/63: Amendments to the Data Protection ( Charges and Information) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/480, increase the annual fees payable to the Information Commissioner by 29.8% across all tiers. These Regulations come into force on 17 February 2025. See: LNB News 28/01/2025 11. ICO issues guidance on ‘ Consent or Pay’ models for online...
In this issue: Children's social care Public procurement Social housing Governance Social care Local government finance Education Healthcare Planning Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Children's social care Supreme Court dismisses appeal upholding care order procedures ( The Father v Worcestershire CC) In The Father v Worcestershire County Council [2025] UKSC 1, the Supreme Court rejected the father’s challenge to the care order that placed his children with foster carers. He had applied for a writ of habeas corpus, asserting the order was made without jurisdiction and that the children were unlawfully deprived of their liberty. The Court of Appeal had already refused his bid, indicating that any objection to a care order must be pursued using the mechanisms in the Children Act 1989 and the Family...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—30 January 2025 In this issue: Data protection Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Fraud Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection ICO launches strategy to tackle online tracking compliance in UK The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) has unveiled a wide‑ranging plan to improve adherence to online tracking rules across the UK’s digital environment. Its remit now extends from the leading 200 to the top 1,000 UK websites, with the goal of giving users genuine control over how their personal data is tracked. The programme features fresh guidance on ‘consent or pay’ approaches, intended action on compliance within apps and connected TVs, and probes into data management platforms across the adtech ecosystem. This guidance explains how to meet data protection law, concentrating on power imbalance, suitable fees,...
In this issue: Building safety Adjudication Payment Procurement Tort Infrastructure projects Environmental issues Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Building safety High Court identifies a ‘building safety risk’ that could lead to a ‘building liability order’ under the Building Safety Act 2022 and enables the RTM company to recover damages for leaseholders (381 Southwark Park Road RTM & Various Leaseholders v Click St Andrews). 381 Southwark Park Road RTM & Various Leaseholders v Click St Andrews [2024] EWHC 3179 ( TCC) is the first High Court ruling to find that a developer’s defective works gave rise to a ‘relevant liability’ due to a ‘building safety risk’ within section 130(3)(b) of the Building Safety Act 2022 ( BSA 2022), clearing the way for the claimant right to manage company ( RTM Co) to apply, at a...
In this issue: Corporate governance Employee benefit trusts Q& As Trackers Useful information Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Corporate governance PLSA publishes Stewardship and Voting guidelines for 2025 The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association ( PLSA) has released its Stewardship and Voting guidelines for 2025. In this year’s guidelines, the PLSA examines: recent political and economic shifts directly influencing investors’ stewardship priorities effects on shareholder rights arising from changes to UK listing rules and advances in AI sustainable finance progress, including the new government’s emphasis on this agenda, and the PLSA’s push to embed nature within sound corporate practice developments on social factors, covering the Department for Work and Pensions’ Taskforce on Social Factors and the PLSA’s related case studies workforce matters, such as maternity and paternity pay and leave, plus...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Cross-border disputes New content Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Online Procedure Rules Draft SI for Online Procedure Rules published : A draft of the Online Procedure Rules ( Specified Proceedings) Regulations 2025 is now available. The SI identifies which types of case are treated as ‘specified proceedings’ for section 20(1) of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022, including civil proceedings concerning property in England and Wales. For more detail, see: LNB News 30/01/2025 14— Online Procedure Rules ( Specified Proceedings) Regulations 2025. Guidance HMCTS issues updated guidance on the Damages Claims pilot scheme under CPR PD 51ZB: HM Courts & Tribunals Service ( HMCTS) has released revised guidance on the Damages Claims pilot under CPR PD 51ZB. The update addresses...
In this issue: Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Fraud Data protection Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Financial sanctions DBT updates guidance on reporting suspected breaches of trade sanctions The Department for Business and Trade ( DBT) has refreshed its guidance on how to report potential breaches of trade sanctions. It now sets out what follows when a submission concerns another person or organisation, rather than the reporter, their own business, or one they represent. See: LNB News 24/01/2025 41... FCDO imposes fresh sanctions on Belarus following sham election The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has unveiled further measures against Belarus after the recent sham presidential vote, acting in step with Canada. Six individuals and three entities are designated, including the Chair of the Belarusian Central Election Commission and senior figures from...
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