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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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Protéines France and Others v Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique, Case C-438/23, ECLI: EU: C:2024:826 What are the practical implications of this case? The Court of Justice’s judgment in Case C-438/23 carries substantial practical consequences for food law practitioners, regulatory advisers and food business operators. In practice, it shapes day-to-day advice and compliance strategies. It confirms that, absent a defined legal designation for plant-based foods, Member States may not enforce national prohibitions on meat-associated terms for such products under domestic law. The harmonisation achieved through the FIC Regulation aims to deliver uniform consumer information throughout the EU and to avert market fragmentation. For advisers, the decision highlights the need to steer clients towards compliance with EU-wide rules, while still identifying any potentially conflicting national measures and scrutinising their validity against the framework of EU harmonised law. The Court’s ruling...
Irish Data Protection Commission welcomes EDPB opinion on the use of personal data for the development and deployment of AI models The Irish Data Protection ( DPC) today greets the European Data Protection Board’s ( EDPB) opinion addressing the utilisation of personal data in building and rolling out Artificial Intelligence ( AI) models. The DPC requested this opinion in September 2024, aiming to secure EU-wide regulatory consistency and prompt clarity on several central questions without undue delay. In reply to that request, the EDPB rapidly activated the Article 64(2)1 GDPR procedure. This sought European-wide harmonisation and timely clarification on a range of vital issues. The DPC’s referral concentrated on four principal matters: (i) In which situations might an AI model be treated as ‘anonymous’?; (ii) How controllers can evidence the suitability of legitimate interest as a lawful basis for......
Ali v HSF Logistics Polska Sp ZOO [2024] EWCA Civ 1479 What are the practical implications of this case? The insurance sector was defeated in the latest court battle by the credit hire industry. Insurer defendants no longer enjoy a straightforward means to knock out credit hire claims merely because a claimant failed to obtain an MOT, pay vehicle tax, secure insurance, or committed another minor motoring breach connected with the damaged vehicle in question......
Concerns have been raised that sections of the Employment Rights Bill intended to create a right to guaranteed minimum working hours, and to pay for shifts cancelled or shortened at short notice, lack essential specifics, which ministers say will be set out in regulations. Uncertainties include who will be covered—the measures are aimed only at those engaged on ‘low hours’, but the threshold has yet to be determined. Analysts also note that rules for establishing workers’ usual hours and what will constitute ‘reasonable notice’ of shifts are absent. Darren Newman, of Darren Newman Employment Law, has identified 15 distinct matters relating to the right to guaranteed hours that must be prescribed in regulations. ‘ That leaves it almost immune to criticism because, when you ask how it will function, the reply is “ It depends”,’ Newman said. The Bill does include an...
A lawyer involved in earlier negotiations said on 19 December 2024 that Arsenal FC and Liverpool FC have now struck an agreement with their insurers, closing off the prospect of litigation in the high-profile case The core question in the row was whether the clubs’ aggregate losses qualified as a single occurrence under their business interruption policies, or whether they were entitled to make repeat claims for each separate occasion they suffered financial loss owing to government restrictions during the pandemic. This claim sits among several significant insurance disputes that have arisen following the Financial Conduct Authority’s successful UK Supreme Court action against insurers on behalf of policyholders in January 2021......
Original news: TPO publishes Ecroignard Determination Background Ecroignard, where Mr Shroff previously served as a director, acted as trustee to two pension schemes. In that capacity it deployed scheme assets, among other activities. Some of those investments, including loans advanced by the schemes, ultimately became worthless, leading to substantial losses for the schemes. After taking over as trustee, Dalriada lodged a complaint with the PO against Ecroignard alleging breach of trust, including a breach of duty for not obtaining suitable investment advice. What did the PO determine? The PO upheld the claimants’ case. Determination PO-16266 records that Ecroignard and Mr Shroff committed numerous breaches of trust and acts of maladministration concerning the Genwick Retirement Benefit Scheme ( Genwick Scheme) and the Uniway Systems Retirement Benefits Scheme ( Uniway Scheme) (the Schemes). These breaches, tied to investment decisions by Ecroignard and Mr Shroff, in...
Mergers CMA publishes finalised versions of six updated mergers guidance documents to reflect jurisdictional and procedural changes introduced by the DMCCA The CMA has issued the definitive editions of six revised merger guidance documents, to mirror jurisdictional and procedural updates ushered in by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ( DMCCA 2024). The six updated documents are as follows: Mergers: Guidance on the CMA’s jurisdiction and procedure ( CMA2) Quick guide to UK merger assessment ( CMA18) Mergers exceptions to the duty to refer and undertakings in lieu ( CMA64) Interim measures in merger investigations ( CMA108) Rules of procedure for merger, market and special reference groups ( CMA17) Energy network mergers guidance ( CMA190)......
FTT considers meaning of interest and decides that an element of redress payments constituted interest ( NHS Mid & South Essex ICB and others v HMRC) NHS Mid & South Essex ICB, NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and NHS Lincolnshire ICB v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 1117 ( TC). The appellants, being Integrated Care Boards ( ICBs), appealed income tax assessments. They maintained, ultimately without success, that no portion of the amounts paid to individuals under the NHS Continuing Healthcare ( CHC) Redress arrangements was “interest” for the purposes of the withholding tax obligation on payments of UK source yearly interest under ITA 2007, s 874, even where that element was computed in the same manner as interest and expressly described as interest. As individuals had no entitlement to CHC sums until the relevant ICB reached a favourable eligibility decision, those who lacked such a...
In other developments, two ex-executives were partly cleared of bribery allegations and the Serious Fraud Office ( SFO) struck an eleventh-hour deal with Eurasian Natural Resources Corp ( ENRC). A judge also delivered a scathing judgment, concluding a once-favoured investment scheme was nothing more than a £250m Ponzi operation. Law360 sets out the standout corporate crime and civil fraud matters from the last year. Assange walks free after plea In June 2024, Julian Assange flew to Australia as a free man after admitting a conspiracy charge brought by the US Department of Justice ( DOJ), drawing a line under his ten-year fight to resist extradition to America. The unexpected resolution followed covert talks and a surprise private bail appearance in London. A session before a US federal judge in the Northern Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, capped a frenetic week. The pact halted the DOJ’s...
Barclays Bank plc v VEB. RF [2024] EWHC 3088 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling is an uncommon example of the court permitting resort to the English courts to decide issues of an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction under AA 1996, s 32. Judge Pelling KC stressed that turning to the court via section 32 is exceptional rather than routine. The decision shows the English courts seeking to balance two objectives: respecting tribunals’ power to determine their own jurisdiction under AA 1996, s 30; and intervening to oversee the arbitral process in appropriate, rare situations, particularly to secure procedural efficiencies and reduce costs. Overall, it reflects careful support for arbitral autonomy, coupled with limited and targeted supervision designed to promote economy in the arbitral procedure. It also confirms the courts’ readiness to hold parties to the valid terms of...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Public children Private children Relationship breakdown Financial provision International children Daily and weekly news alerts Family Highlights 2024/2025 New content Updated content Useful information This is our final Weekly Highlights of 2024. The first Weekly Highlights of 2025 will appear on 9 January 2025 and be emailed to customers on 10 January 2025. For guidance on staying abreast of developments each day and each week, see the ‘ Daily and weekly news alerts’ section. From the whole Family team, we wish you a joyful festive season and a happy new year. Practice and procedure Law Commission scoping paper on financial remedies on divorce and dissolution. The Law Commission has released a scoping paper on financial remedies following divorce and dissolution. The central issue for the project was whether the current law ‘provides a cohesive framework in which parties to a divorce or dissolution can expect fair and...
Over the past decade or so, enforcement was driven by a potent, City‑centred mix of rate‑manipulation and financial markets inquiries, together with international corruption probes—each delving into the boardrooms of some of the UK’s largest public limited companies. In the post‑pandemic era, though, the atmosphere has shifted as belts have tightened in government and at home. Agencies across the enforcement landscape have renewed their attention on offending that clearly resonates with the public (making sure money remains with those who earned it) and, accordingly, they are intensifying their pursuit of fraud. Naturally, fraud inquiries are nothing new. This is a revival, not a novelty, prompted by the pronounced rise in fraud in recent years—so marked that the problem has been described as a pandemic. Indeed, Office of National Statistics figures show that in the first half of 2024, fraud accounted for over 40% of all...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Costs and funding Case management Dates for your diary Useful information Dispute Resolution Highlights 2024/2025 Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Speeches and reports On 29 November 2024, at the Civil Justice Council’s ( CJC) 13th National Forum, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the- Hill, Heidi Alexander MP, and Rachel Rossi, Director of the Office for Access to Justice at the US Department of Justice, each delivered a speech to attendees. The programme focused on the theme ‘access to justice—working together’. That shared message emphasised working together to secure access to justice. For fuller coverage, see: LNB News 17/12/2024 38— Speeches given at the CJC’s 13th National Forum. The Ministry of Justice ( Mo J) has issued the...
Antitrust CMA publishes updated version of its Guidance on investigation procedures under the CA 1998 cases following changes brought by the DMCCA The CMA has issued a refreshed edition of its Guidance on investigation procedures in Competition Act 1998 cases ( CMA8). In publishing this updated version, the CMA has revised the Guidance to mirror changes introduced by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ( DMCCA), as well as to capture other developments in CMA policy and practice arising since the last iteration. They also reflect wider practice developments at the authority. The principal DMCCA-related amendments concern the following: The CMA’s new duty to conduct cases with expedition. A new power for the CMA to impose administrative penalties for failures to comply with investigatory requirements, and for breaches of commitments and directions. Clarification within the Guidance that a draft penalty...
In this issue: Practice Compliance forecast Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Practice Compliance Highlights 2024/2025 Practice Compliance forecast Our refreshed Practice Compliance forecast, current as at 18 December 2024, is now available. This edition covers: (1) the European Data Protection Board’s consultation on Guidelines 02/2024 concerning GDPR Article 48, (2) an expectation that the Legal Ombudsman ( Le O) will finalise its budget and business plan in Spring 2025, (3) an expectation that the Data ( Use and Access) Bill will be enacted in early spring 2025, and (4) the ICO’s indication that it intends to update its existing AI guidance in due course. See News Analysis: New Practice Compliance forecast as at 18...
New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 18 December 2024 Our Risk and Compliance forecast dated 18 December 2024 monitors anticipated regulatory developments affecting risk and compliance, enabling you to prepare for any shifts that could matter to your organisation. It supports planning and timely action. Do examine it thoroughly, though several points that deserve a place on your radar are summarised below......
In this issue: Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round-up Moveable Transactions ( Scotland) Act 2023 Football Governance Bill LIBOR and benchmarks Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Regulation for derivatives lawyers Technology in banking & finance transactions Structured products and securitisation Regulation for banking lawyers Banking & Finance Highlights 2024/2025 Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round-up For this week’s coverage of Sustainable finance and ESG developments, please see: Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round–up—19 December 2024. Moveable Transactions ( Scotland) Act 2023 Moveable Transactions ( Scotland) Act 2023 ( Commencement) Regulations 2024 SSI 2024/378: From 1 April 2025, the outstanding provisions of the Moveable Transactions ( Scotland) Act 2023 (the Act) will come into effect. See: LNB News 17/12/2024 9. Moveable Transactions ( Forms) ( Scotland) Regulations 2024 SSI 2024/379: These prescribe the forms to be used for the purposes set out in sections 65(1) and 98(1) of the Act. They take effect on 1...
M R Currell Ltd v HMRC [2024] UKUT 404 ( TCC) The EBT loan within the scheme fell due for repayment on the fifth anniversary and was secured over shares in the taxpayer company, which the shareholder-director had acquired using the loan monies as an element of the planning. The parties were in dispute about whether the FTT had determined that the payment of the contribution to the EBT, or the advance made by the EBT, amounted to the shareholder-director’s earnings. When scrutinising the FTT’s judgment, the UT ultimately held that the tribunal had concluded that it was the payment of the contribution into the EBT that was chargeable to tax as earnings......
A group of academics informed the parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee that the review is essential in setting a retirement income benchmark. Their caution follows days after the government was criticised for pushing the second phase of the pensions review into the long grass amid worries about imposing extra costs on employers. That follow‑up strand of the pensions review had been due to examine steps that might be taken to guarantee people in Britain enjoy an acceptable standard of living in later life in retirement......
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal concluded that MI5 did not exceed its legal powers when it issued an 'interference alert' that accused Christine Lee of running political interference on behalf of the United Front Work Department, part of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party An alert released in January 2022 and shared within parliament stated that the 61-year-old had assisted the UFWD in forging connections with both seasoned and would-be Parliamentarians from all parties. It further claimed she had arranged donations to political organisations for overseas nationals. A panel chaired by Court of Appeal judge Rabinder Singh rejected the case advanced by Lee and her son, Daniel Wilkes, 30, a former aide to Labour MP Barry Gardiner, issuing a ruling delivered in part behind closed doors. Justice Singh, who also presides over the tribunal, said MI5’s ‘national security evaluation’ regarding Lee ‘had a...
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