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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 R& I law developments Corporate insolvency processes Personal insolvency Restructuring Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation R& I in Scotland Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals Key R& I law developments Insolvency Service publishes monthly insolvency statistics for December 2024 The Insolvency Service has issued its monthly insolvency figures for December 2024, covering corporate and personal cases in England and Wales. The figures indicate there were 1,838 company insolvencies, 6% fewer than in November 2024 and 14% down on December 2023. For individuals, total insolvencies in December 2024 were 10,050, similar to November 2024 and 23% higher than December 2023. See: LNB News 21/01/2025 16. Companies House announces implementation dates for key regulations of the ECCTA 2023 Companies House has published an updated transition plan for the Economic Crime and...
In this issue: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Regulation for derivatives lawyers Securitisation and structured products Technology in banking & finance transactions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 Companies House announces implementation dates for key regulations of the ECCTA 2023 Companies House has updated its transition plan for the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, which received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. It sets dates for: (1) suppressing home address used as a registered office, (2) a service registering Authorised Corporate Service Providers, and (3) allowing voluntary identity verification. See: LNB News 22/01/2025 13. Source: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: outline transition plan for Companies...
In this issue: New technologies Information technology Internet 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 How AI’s ‘intended purpose’ could define companies’ EU regulatory burden MLex reports that the EU’s AI Act—the first comprehensive regime for artificial intelligence—places most due diligence duties on vendors of AI systems whose stated purpose presents elevated risks to people’s health or fundamental rights. See: How AI’s ‘intended purpose’ could define companies’ EU regulatory burden. Government responds to Parliament’s report on AI governance The UK Parliament has issued the government’s reply to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s AI governance report. The government intends to consult shortly on AI‑specific laws for the most powerful models, will put the AI...
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Authorisation, approval and supervision Prudential requirements Operational resilience Complaints, compensation and claims management Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of capital markets Dispute resolution for financial services lawyers Sustainable finance and ESG Banks and mutuals Investment funds and asset management Consumer credit, mortgage and home finance Regulation of insurance Payment services and systems Fintech and cryptoassets 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 Chancellor launches industry forums to shape UK financial services growth and competitiveness strategy HM Treasury has confirmed that, as part of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ programme for a Financial Services Growth and...
In this issue: Public procurement Children's social care Governance Social housing Social care Local government finance Healthcare Education Planning Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Public procurement Preparing for the Procurement Act 2023—new practical guidance On 24 February 2025, the principal provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 ( PA 2023) take effect. Any procurements starting on or after that date must follow PA 2023, while exercises launched under earlier public procurement legislation will continue to be run and managed under those provisions. For background reading, see Practice Notes: Public procurement reform and Introduction to the Procurement Act 2023— PA 2023. As the PA 2023 ‘go-live’ was deferred last year, government departments, public bodies and local authorities have been steadily preparing for the change, whilst still conducting their procurement activities under the existing rules. Under the transitional and saving provisions for PA 2023, both regimes will operate side by side, in parallel, for some time. See...
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority ( EIOPA) has, for years, warned about a widening ‘natural catastrophe insurance protection gap’ across the EU. This gap captures the mismatch between overall losses caused by natural disasters and the portion of those losses that are insured. According to EIOPA and the European Central Bank ( ECB), from 1981 to 2023 natural catastrophes cost EU member states €900bn, with one fifth of that bill arising in just the most recent three years. Over the same period, only around a quarter of losses were insured, and that proportion is falling. We have previously outlined EIOPA’s worries about the consequences of this catastrophe gap (see here). In this article, we examine the actions that EIOPA and the ECB now formally propose to narrow the protection gap, as set out in a paper issued on 18 December 2024 (the 2024...
In this issue: Leasing property Residential property Statutory compliance Transferring property Insurance Property taxes Property in Scotland Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Leasing property Landlord and tenant—repudiatory breach ( Ramsbury Properties Ltd v Ocean View Construction Ltd) In Ramsbury Properties Ltd v Ocean View Construction Ltd ( St Christopher and Nevis) [2024] UKPC 40, the Privy Council endorsed a tenant’s right to bring a lease to an end following a landlord’s repudiatory breach. Although only persuasive as precedent, the ruling is noteworthy, emanating from the highest judicial tier and building upon earlier authority. The Privy Council confirmed that repudiatory breach can ground termination of a lease. It thus supplies persuasive support for the previously generally held view that a lease might be determined after...
HMRC reports that the levy on insurers, which covers most UK insurance premiums, generated £600m more in total between April 2024 and December 2024 than the £6.1bn collected over the equivalent period in 2023. The authority noted that £4.5bn paid into HM Treasury from this tax between April 2024 and September 2024 is the highest first-half total received since records were first kept in 1995......
In this issue: Trade in goods WTO Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trade in goods Trump kicks off overhaul of USA trade system MLex noted that, during his inauguration on 20 January 2025 in Washington, DC, USA President Donald Trump declared that the USA would move straight away to revamp its trade system. He said the initial step will be setting up an external revenue service to raise ‘massive amounts of money’ from tariffs and import duties. See News Analysis: Trump kicks off overhaul of US trade system. PCA announces hearing schedule for UK- EU sandeel fishing arbitration The Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA) has confirmed that the Arbitration Tribunal, constituted under Article 740 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK, has arranged a public hearing for the UK- Sandeel case (......
In this issue: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act Environmental, social and governance issues Partnerships; Limited liability partnerships ( LLPs) Corporate crime for corporate lawyers Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Useful information Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act Companies House sets go-live dates for three ECCTA 2023 measures Companies House has presented a refreshed transition plan for the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 ( ECCTA), which obtained Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, and issued the most recent framework update on 21 January 2025. The update pinpoints commencement timings for three areas: rolling back the use of home addresses as registered offices, new support to register Authorised Corporate Service Providers ( ACSPs), and a voluntary route for individuals to confirm their identity. See: LNB News 22/01/2025 13. Environmental, social and governance issues FRC issues review of CFDs by AIM and large private...
Following referrals from the Finland Market Court and Ireland’s Supreme Court arising from disputes featuring Teva and Merck Sharp & Dohme, the EU’s highest court ruled last month that a product may obtain an SPC even where a previously patented active substance is combined with a known, public‑domain ingredient, provided the regulatory requirements are satisfied (see here). The decision bolsters originator, brand‑name manufacturers that create and own pioneering drug patents. By permitting SPCs for combination therapies, the Court of Justice of the EU granted those brands as much as five extra years of exclusivity across a wider spectrum of treatments, postponing generic rivalry from companies that have traditionally waited for patent expiry before incorporating such substances into medicinal products. As Matthieu Dhenne, founding partner at Paris‑based Dhenne Avocats, told MLex, for pharmaceutical businesses the judgment favours SPC holders and...
In this issue: Automatic enrolment Investment Taxation Contracting-out Public sector pensions Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Automatic enrolment DWP publishes review of earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for 2025/26 The Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) has released a review assessing the automatic enrolment ( AE) thresholds—namely the earnings trigger and the qualifying earnings band—for the 2024 to 2025 financial year. In a written statement, the Minister for Pensions, Torsten Bell, emphasised that this year’s review primarily seeks to preserve the stability of automatic enrolment for both employers and individuals. The government also aimed to keep its framework enabling individuals to build pension savings while remaining affordable for employers and taxpayers. The review concludes that every AE threshold for 2025/26 will stay at the 2024/25 levels. The earnings trigger for automatic enrolment sets the point at which an...
Rules, policy or guidance about NFM New rules, policy or guidance on NFM are expected sometime in 2025, following the FCA’s NFM survey report issued in the final quarter of 2024. That report indicated marked rises in NFM between 2021 and 2023 in bullying and harassment. Oversight of NFM by the FCA, the PRA, the Bo E and other financial services regulators prompts philosophical and jurisprudential debate about how far the state can and should, as principal, delegate the stewardship, governance and enforcement of wide societal ethical matters, such as the treatment of women at work. Questions prompted by regulatory involvement in NFM within financial services include: is it truly the remit of a financial services regulator to monitor general conduct, for example, behaviour at an office party, that does not squarely sit within the scope of providing financial services?...
In this issue: Data protection and life sciences Post-market Commercialisation Pharmaceuticals—regulatory framework Research and development Medical devices Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Data protection and life sciences Council adopts European Health Data Space Regulation The Council of the European Union has approved the European Health Data Space ( EHDS) Regulation, designed to improve cross-border availability of health information across the European Union. The measure will strengthen people’s oversight of their electronic health data and permit its secondary use for scientific research. Member States must set up digital health authorities and uphold the European electronic health record exchange format. The Regulation will apply 20 days after it appears in the Official Journal of the European Union, signalling a major move towards the digitalisation of healthcare across Europe. Refer to: LNB News 21/01/2025 58......
In this issue: Corporate governance Useful information Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Corporate governance ASOS Plc shareholders vote on pay arrangements, including value creation plan After investors backed its new value creation plan ( VCP) and an updated remuneration policy at a specially called extraordinary general meeting last year (for details, see: Share Incentives weekly highlights—22 August 2024), ASOS Plc has now also gained AGM approval for the directors’ remuneration report covering the period when the first VCP awards were made. Under the VCP, participants were granted nil-cost options giving them access to a value pool equal to 5.5% of the company’s growth above £6.70 per share (around twice the share price when the VCP was devised). Executive directors’ awards vest in two equal tranches after four and five years. At each vesting point, the...
In this issue: Public procurement Brexit highlights Post- Brexit transition guidance Constitutional and administrative law State accountability and liability Judicial review State security and intelligence Subsidy control and State aid Projects and infrastructure Other Public law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Public procurement Preparing for the Procurement Act 2023—new practical guidance On 24 February 2025, the principal provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 ( PA 2023) are due to take effect. Procurements started on or after that date must be conducted under PA 2023, whereas those commenced under the earlier public procurement legislation will continue to be procured and managed in accordance with those rules. For background reading, see Practice Notes: Public procurement reform and Introduction to the...
PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—23 January 2025 In this issue: Public authorities and the state Costs and funding Lex Talk®PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Lexis Nexis® Webinars Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Public authorities and the state The police owe no general duty to shield individuals from criminal harm, and foreseeability on its own does not create such a duty. Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police v Woodcock; HD (by their respective litigation friends) v Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police [2025] EWCA Civ 13 comprised two appeals in the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division). Each claim examined whether the police could be liable in damages for not preventing injury inflicted by a third party offender. The appeals were heard together. The Court of Appeal rejected the claims of CJ and others alleging a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and...
Thom Browne Inc and another company v Adidas Ag and other companies [2024] EWHC 2990 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? Striking the right balance when defining a non‑standard trade mark for registration is difficult. The description has to make the nature of the sign and the extent of the protection conferred by registration plain and unequivocal, while still enabling action against third parties who deploy something comparable. That tension sits between articulating, with certainty, what the mark comprises and how wide its protection runs, and retaining the means to enforce it against similar uses. In this dispute, the language adopted for Adidas’s clothing and bag marks could be read as covering several variants of the sign, embracing multiple forms of the trade mark, and accordingly those entries were found invalid. By contrast, the footwear descriptions were...
In this issue: Key developments Competition and state aid Corporate Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Environment IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Key developments EU Law—key developments of 2024 and what to look out for in 2025 This News Analysis reviews the principal legislative and policy shifts in EU law across 2024, spotlighting implications for Banking and finance, Commercial, Data protection and cybersecurity, Employment, Financial services, Energy, Environment, IP, Life sciences, and TMT, and signposts what is on the horizon in those fields for 2025. Additional detail on forthcoming proposals will follow once the European Commission publishes its 2025 Work Programme. See News Analysis: EU Law—key developments of 2024 and what to look out for in 2025. Competition and state aid Competition Law update–charging ahead ( Alphabet and Others) In Alphabet and Others, Case C-233/23 before the Court of Justice, Advocate General Laila Medina delivered an Opinion on 5...
In this issue: Data protection e Privacy Cybersecurity Reputation management Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection DSIT publishes response to data protection fee regime consultation The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT) has released its response to the consultation on proposed revisions to the data protection fee regime. The consultation, which closed on 3 October 2024, asked for views on a 37.2% uplift in fees payable by data controllers to the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) across all tiers. DSIT’s reply sets out stakeholder commentary on the increase, and reviews the continued suitability of other parts of the regime, including the criteria for fee assessment, discounts for paying by direct debit, and the current exemptions from payment requirements. See: LNB News 16/01/2025 52. EDPB issues guidance on data protection and competition law interplay The European Data Protection Board ( EDPB) has adopted a position paper exploring the...
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