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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 EU developments Competition and state aid Data protection and cybersecurity Financial services Environment Insurance and reinsurance Life sciences TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Key EU developments EU introduces competitiveness compass The European Commission has unveiled the competitiveness compass, a strategic blueprint to steer its programme over the next five years, setting out priority measures to bolster Europe’s competitiveness. It marks the first flagship move of this Commission’s mandate. The compass draws on the recommendations in the Draghi report, ‘ The future of European competitiveness’, issued in September 2024 (see: LNB News 10/09/2024 44). The ambition is to secure Europe’s leadership in designing, producing and commercialising next-generation technologies, services and clean products, while progressing towards climate neutrality. Although productivity growth has trailed that of other major economies for two decades, the EU retains the ingredients to turn the tide — a skilled labour force, capital, savings and a...
In this issue: Corporate governance Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Equity capital markets Market Standards Limited liability partnerships Brexit Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Corporate governance PLSA publishes Stewardship and Voting guidelines for 2025 The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has released its Stewardship and Voting guidelines for 2025. They outline firm principles for assessing and engaging with companies on matters including climate action, workforce diversity, and responsible deployment of capital, all directed at delivering sustainable long-term value. See: LNB News 27/01/2025 43. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Registrar ( Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/50: These Regulations set the rules for identity verification, the authorisation of corporate service providers, and the use of unique identifiers for verified...
In this issue: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 Procurement Act 2023 Lending Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Regulation for derivatives lawyers Sanctions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 Registrar ( Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/50 SI 2025/50 sets out the framework for identity verification, authorised corporate service providers ( ACSPs, as defined in section 1098A of the Companies Act 2006 ( CA 2006)), and unique identifiers (as defined in CA 2006, s 1082). Its commencement is staggered: in part when section 65 of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 ( ECCTA 2023), dealing with procedures for verifying identity, is fully in force; in part when ECCTA 2023, s 66 on...
In this issue: Court of Protection Elderly and vulnerable clients UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Budgets and Finance Bills Contentious trusts and estates Art and heritage property, landed estates and farming families Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 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 Court of Protection Court of Appeal clarifies proper ordering of mental capacity test in litigation The Court of Appeal, in Mac Pherson v Sunderland City Council [2024] EWCA Civ 1579, has provided firm direction on the correct approach to determining litigation capacity. It underlined that assessments must follow the two-limbed analysis from A Local Authority v JB [2021] UKSC 52, rather than the superseded Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, which applies the...
In its closing submissions, the world’s biggest aircraft lessor urged the court to firmly dismiss Fidelis’s contention that it has no obligation to indemnify Aer Cap for losses tied to aircraft left in Russia because of sanctions imposed by the US, UK and EU, following coordinated measures. Mark Howard KC of Brick Court Chambers, for Aer Cap, said that permitting Fidelis to sidestep payment under its contingent liability policy with the lessor would do nothing to advance the objectives of sanctions on Russia in practice. Aer Cap is turning to contingency insurance to recover financial losses linked to the aircraft stuck in Russia. The lessor contends that Fidelis, together with several other participating insurers, must respond for 116 of its aircraft and 15 stand‑alone engines that were “lost” after becoming stranded in Russia in 2022. “ Fidelis are trying to argue that...
In this issue: Repairing obligations and dilapidations Neighbour and party wall disputes Contractual issues Service charges Forfeiture Disputes and remedies Additional Property Disputes updates Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& As Repairing obligations and dilapidations High Court identifies a ‘building safety risk’ that may lead to a ‘building liability order’ under the Building Safety Act 2022 and allows the RTM company to recover damages for leaseholders (381 Southwark Park Road RTM & Various Leaseholders v Click St Andrews) This represents the first High Court ruling that a developer’s defective works amounted to a ‘relevant liability’ arising from a ‘building safety risk’ under section 130(3)(b) of the Building Safety Act 2022. The decision enables the claimant right to manage company ( RTM Co) to pursue, at a...
In this issue Practice and procedure Private children Public children Financial provision Costs Medical treatment Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content Useful information Practice and procedure Courts and Tribunals: Judiciary publishes fresh practice guidance on intermediaries, lay advocates and cognitive assessments in the Family Court The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew Mc Farlane, has issued new guidance addressing the deployment of intermediaries, lay advocates and cognitive assessments in family cases. Applications seeking such assessments must justify necessity, with a clear focus that intermediaries are only to be engaged where indispensable to secure fair participation, and seldom across whole hearings. The guidance sets out the function of intermediaries under the Family Procedure Rules 2010 ( FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, Pt 3A, explains the steps for preliminary and cognitive assessments, and underlines that although informative, assessment outcomes are not conclusive. The discretion to appoint an intermediary rests with the judge. The aim is to...
In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct SRA aims to launch first Post Office prosecutions in summer According to its chair, the Solicitors Regulation Authority ( SRA) intends to initiate the first prosecutions linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal this summer. The regulator is probing more than 20 law firms connected to one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British history. See News Analysis: SRA aims to launch first Post Office prosecutions in summer. Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls What are the implications of the Memorandum of Understanding between OFSI and OFAC for financial sanctions enforcement? Seeking to reinforce sanctions enforcement, the US Department of the...
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Authorisation, approval and supervision Accountability, culture and social governance Prudential requirements Operational resilience Financial crime and sanctions Consumer protection Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of capital markets Dispute resolution for financial services lawyers Regulation of derivatives Sustainable finance and ESG Banks and mutuals UK Mi FID II Consumer credit, mortgage and home finance Regulation of insurance FSMA regulated pensions activity Payment services and systems Fintech and cryptoassets Bank recovery and resolution Financial Services Enforcement Database Daily and weekly news alerts Intraday news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Ho C Treasury Committee publishes correspondence with FCA The House of Commons Treasury Committee has released exchanges with the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA), comprising a letter by Dame Meg Hillier MP to the FCA’s chief executive, Nikhil Rathi, dated 19 December 2024, and the regulator’s reply of 20 January 2025. The correspondence updates matters raised at a hearing, including FCA pension...
Among the latest triggers for reform was the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 ( FSMA 2023), which scrapped obsolete EU-derived rules and handed watchdogs fresh authority to set requirements that safeguard consumers. The statute also introduced a secondary aim centred on growth and competitiveness. Post- Brexit regulatory change has proved expensive and intricate. As the UK marks five years since Brexit, the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) is seeking to explain how it will balance consumer protection with the government’s ambition for financial services to spur economic expansion. Some lawyers caution that mixed messages risk creating uncertainty over supervisory priorities. ‘ Is this really the moment to contemplate a sweeping overhaul of the rulebook?’ asked Sara Cody, counsel in Linklaters LLP’s contentious regulation team. ‘ Firms have only just embedded the Consumer Duty and, before that, were grappling with the vast regulatory fallout from Brexit,’ Cody...
In this issue: New technologies Internet Data protection Media Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Reputation management Telecommunications Lex Talk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information New technologies European privacy regulators caution that Deep Seek, a generative artificial intelligence ( AI) system built by Chinese developers, raises major data protection issues. The tool achieved rapid worldwide traction in the week beginning 27 January 2025, especially once released as a mobile app. See News Analysis: China’s Deep Seek AI model poses fresh concerns for EU and UK data regulators. Despite President Donald Trump fulfilling a campaign pledge to revoke it, parts of a Biden-era executive order aimed at curbing AI security and safety risks are expected to endure. Rather than being...
In this issue: International Budgets and Finance Bills Taxes management and litigation Employment taxes Incentivised investment Brexit and assimilated law Real estate tax Individuals and income tax Devolution Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information International HMRC opens consultation on draft MTT and DTT supporting guidance HMRC has begun consulting on supplementary draft guidance for the Multinational Top-up Tax and the Domestic Top-up Tax. The consultation closes on 8 April 2025. See: LNB News 29/01/2025 15. Budgets and Finance Bills HM Treasury releases the final Charter for Budget Responsibility The final Charter for Budget Responsibility, as laid before Parliament, has been issued. See: LNB News 23/01/2025 18. Taxes management and litigation HMRC outlines outcome of consultation on draft legislation to enhance data collected The review on improving taxpayer data gathered by HMRC has concluded, with outcomes and next steps published. Following the consultation, progress will be made on the Income Tax ( Additional...
In this issue Horizon scanning ESG and sustainability: employment issues Status and worker categories Pay Pensions Tax Prohibited conduct protection at work Diversity and gender pay gap Data protection and employee information Financial services and banking: employment issues Employment Tribunals Employment Appeal Tribunal Immigration IRLR Highlights— February 2025 Dates for your diary Trackers Employment resources on Lexis+® Daily and weekly news alerts Horizon scanning Parliament publishes updated Employment Rights Bill Parliament has issued the latest version of the Employment Rights Bill, capturing amendments agreed at the committee stage. Key updates comprise: new Statutory Sick Pay provisions applicable in Northern Ireland the addition of a chapter concerning seafarers a longer period for bringing employment tribunal claims, and revised circumstances for an employer’s duty to offer...
In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Oil and gas Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing DESNZ publishes Secretary of State’s designation of energy codes and central systems DESNZ has released a designation notice from Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, setting his decision to designate specified energy codes and central systems as qualifying documents and central systems for the purposes of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2023. This designation enables Ofgem to use its transitional powers to deliver reform of energy code governance. See: LNB News 29/01/2025 44......
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Statutory compliance Leasing property Property management Transferring property Environment, energy and buildings Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Key developments and horizon scanning Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—enfranchisement The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 ( Commencement No 2 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/57 take effect on 31 January 2025, commencing the parts of the 2024 Act that scrap the two‑year qualification period for leasehold enfranchisement and lease extension applications. See: LNB News 24/01/2025 20... Statutory compliance Defective works by developer led to liability under BSA 2022 381 Southwark Park Road RTM Company Ltd v Click St Andrews Ltd (in liquidation) marks the first High Court ruling that a developer’s defective works constituted a ‘relevant liability’ arising from a...
In this issue: Pension Protection Fund Funding, surplus and investment Members and benefits Taxation Scheme governance Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Pension Protection Fund PPF’s 2025/26 levy estimate reduced to £45m while government proposes to legislate for greater levy flexibility The Pension Protection Fund ( PPF) issued its policy statement and 2025/26 levy rules on 30 January 2025, confirming an agreed cut in the 2025/26 levy estimate to £45m—down from the £100m figure consulted on between 12 September and 23 October 2024—delivering the lowest levy ever. The PPF indicates that virtually all schemes—99.7 per cent—are expected to pay a reduced PPF levy in 2025/26, with the average levy as a share of liabilities falling from 0.011% to 0.006%. Responding to industry feedback, and following engagement between the PPF and the government, the government has also formally announced that it is considering measures to give the PPF greater...
UK financial regulators have come into the government’s firing line. On 29 January 2025, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves lambasted their labyrinthine rules and a shortage of predictability in a keynote address on economic growth. Payments supervision has been picked out by the financial services industry as especially intricate. By certain estimates, compliance swallows almost the entire budget companies ringfence for operational improvements. Fintech is a major expansion prospect for the UK, with payments the strongest strand of fintech investment. Naturally, payments has become a focal point for the government. Reeves, alongside Prime Minister Keir Starmer, wrote to the Payment Systems Regulator ( PSR) in December 2024, outlining their expectations for supporting growth. The PSR’s answer, released on 28 January 2025, is unlikely to appease those who criticise the regulator. While the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) was praised by industry for unveiling a bold...
What are the practical implications of this case? Appreciating the reach of this ruling will also aid advisers guiding clients on broker commission structures and their potential effect on the interest charged under a conditional fee agreement, together with the precise disclosures that must be made to consumers about any commission in place. Commission arrangements of the sort agreed between Arnold Clark and Clydesdale in this matter were prohibited by the FCA in 2021. Nonetheless, the court acknowledged that a significant number of car purchases occurred in contexts where those or comparable terms existed or might have applied, or could potentially have been present. The Ombudsman concluded that Arnold Clark recommended to Ms Lewis a Clydesdale finance product (the conditional sale agreement) which formed part of the overall transactional package enabling her to acquire the vehicle, alongside the part exchange of her previous car and a...
‘ We will produce a single set of rules…for those developing or using AI products to make it easier for them to innovate and invest responsibly while safeguarding people's information rights’ He noted, reading from his letter. He argued that a statutory AI code of practice would offer greater regulatory certainty to companies seeking to invest in AI. He also cited an estimate that AI could contribute £47bn to the UK economy each year. In late December 2024, Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote to a host of regulators requesting a set of five pro-growth proposals, and the Information Commissioner's Office ( ICO) replied with seven in total......
Former HM Revenue and Customs tax inspector Simon Emblin, together with lawyers Carl O' Shea and Mark Reid, orchestrated the sale of loan assets to FS Capital Ltd — where Emblin was a director — for what they regarded as 'a fraction of their true value', according to a Court of Appeal judgment handed down on 28 January 2025. O' Shea is a group partner at Hatstone LLC, a boutique Jersey-based law firm, while Reid is a former partner at Gateley Wareing Solicitors, now Gateley Plc. With Emblin, they devised and executed a scheme to exclude the beneficiaries and divert the 'huge commercial opportunity' to themselves, the lower court found. In a concurrence with Justice Sarah Asplin's ruling, Justice Stephen Males noted that this was, in the 'archaic and inaccurate language of equity', 'a fraud on a power', a...
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