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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: Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Sentencing Sentencing Council issues annual report for 2023–2024 The Sentencing Council ( SC) has published its 2023–24 annual report, setting out activity from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. Highlights comprise issuing updated and new definitive, offence-specific sentencing guidelines, running its third yearly consultation on miscellaneous amendments, seeking views on revisions to the overarching guideline and three offence-specific guidelines, and releasing results from three research studies. See: LNB News 11/09/2024 42. Sentencing Council launches consultations on miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines and on ancillary orders guidance The SC has begun its fourth yearly consultation on miscellaneous adjustments to sentencing guidelines, alongside guidance on...
In this edition: Employment contract Pay Protected characteristics Prohibited conduct (discrimination etc) Prohibited conduct protection at work Equality of terms (equal pay) Employment Appeal Tribunal Governance and regulatory Immigration Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Employment resources on Lexis+® Daily and weekly news alerts Employment contract UKSC upholds claimants’ appeal and restores injunction in Tesco ‘fire and rehire’ case In Tesco Stores Ltd v Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers ( USDAW) [2024] UKSC 28, Tesco moved to end employees’ contracts to remove their ‘retained pay’—a contractual financial entitlement accepted as permanent—and to offer re-engagement on new terms excluding that pay. Working with the union, USDAW, several employees obtained a High Court injunction restraining Tesco from dismissing them in order to take away the retained pay entitlement. The Court of Appeal, however, allowed Tesco’s appeal against that order. The Supreme Court has since backed the claimants’ appeal and reinstated the injunction......
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Authorisation, approval and supervision Prudential requirements Risk management and controls Financial crime and sanctions Conduct requirements Complaints, compensation and claims management Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of benchmarks and IBOR reform Regulation of capital markets Regulation of derivatives Sustainable finance and ESG Banks and mutuals 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 FCA publishes CP24/18: Quarterly Consultation Paper No. 45 The Financial Conduct Authority has released CP24/18, proposing to amend the definition of ‘firm’ so that designated co‑ordination bodies are explicitly covered by the...
In this issue: Brexit feature analysis Brexit SIs Coronavirus ( COVID-19) Constitutional and administrative law Public procurement State accountability and liability State security and intelligence Subsidy control and State aid Judicial review Equality and human rights Information law Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& A Useful information Brexit feature analysis Denied boarding, and Brexit rules of engagement ( Lipton v BA City Flyer Ltd). In Lipton v BA City Flyer Ltd [2024] UKSC 24, the Supreme Court clarified the approach to interpreting Regulation ( EC) 261/2004—often colloquially called the ‘ Denied Boarding Regulation’, though not by the court—and in doing so offered a practical aide for practitioners on handling Eurolaw across the Brexit process. The ruling...
In this issue: Key DR developments Costs and funding Injunctions Litigation Case management ADR New content Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Announcements Law Society acclaims England and Wales as the world’s legal centre: The Law Society has released the International Data Insights Report, concluding that England and Wales sit at the forefront of arbitration and commercial dispute resolution. The report states that English law governs transactions and international deals worth trillions of pounds. It also notes that the London Commercial Court hands down more written judgments each year than any other leading commercial court. For further insight, see LNB News 11/09/2024 40— Law Society publishes report hailing England and Wales as world's legal centre. Court information Lady Chief Justice's Lord Lowry lecture: The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ( CTJ) has made...
In this issue: Probate Trusts Court of Protection Elderly and vulnerable clients UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Budgets and Finance Bills Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland International 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 Probate HMRC updates schedule IHT430 HMRC has issued a revised IHT430 schedule, used when claiming or choosing not to apply the reduced rate of inheritance tax where at least 10% of an estate is left to charity. The section on qualifying charities has been amended following legislative changes, meaning gifts to EU charities no longer secure IHT...
In this issue: Coronavirus ( COVID-19) Ukraine conflict Reinsurance Regulation New and updated content Case trackers Key dates Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Insurance: a Lexis®Nexis community Coronavirus ( COVID-19) Business interruption—‘at the premises’ test case On 6 September 2024, an English appellate court sided with London’s Ex Ce L exhibition centre and other policyholders, holding that nationwide lockdowns across the UK during the coronavirus pandemic engaged 'at the premises' wording in their policies—a test case expected to strengthen thousands of further claims. See: Ex Ce L wins landmark £16m coronavirus ( COVID-19) business interruption insurance test case and [2024] EWCA Civ 1026. Ukraine conflict Reinsurance moratorium On 8 September 2024, both Aon Plc and Marsh Mc Lennan publicly urged the reinsurance market to end its moratorium on Ukraine-related risks, arguing that broad exclusions were hampering the war‑torn...
Audrey Flowers v Bria Scavella [2024] UKPC 25 What are the practical implications of this case? Holding the family home as a joint tenancy is widespread, and so too is a mortgage secured against it. A frequent issue is whether the surviving co-owner must redeem the mortgage, or whether the estate should meet all or part of that liability. This ruling confirms that AEA 1925, s 35 does not, of itself, impose liability on the surviving joint tenant. That is because the section operates only where the entitlement to the property comes through the deceased’s estate (eg via their Will), and not where the entitlement arises independently of it. In a joint tenancy, the survivor does not, on the other’s death, take the deceased’s share; instead, the deceased’s interest is extinguished and the survivor becomes entitled to the whole. In Audrey Flowers v Bria...
In this issue: Brexit Directors Accounts and reports Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit Denied boarding, and Brexit rules of engagement ( Lipton v BA City Flyer Ltd) Public Law analysis: Considering Lipton v BA City Flyer Ltd [2024] UKSC 24, the Supreme Court delivered clarification on construing Regulation ( EC) 261/2004 (commonly—though not by that court—termed the ‘ Denied Boarding Regulation’) and, in doing so, produced a practical roadmap for practitioners tackling Eurolaw that straddles the Brexit transition. Consequently, the ruling matters not only to those in aviation but to all lawyers contending with legislation sourced from the EC. Authored by Sarah Prager KC, barrister, Deka Chambers. See News Analysis: Denied boarding, and Brexit rules of engagement ( Lipton v BA City Flyer Ltd). It offers...
Mergers The Commission has received notifications regarding: Turner/ Dornan ( M.11683) (simplified merger procedure) EDF/ Vauban Infrastructure Partners/ Ontower Austria ( M.11740) (simplified merger procedure) Amundi/ Marguerite/ Ze Way Invest/ Ze Energy JV ( M.11681) Note— For details of all active merger probes before the Commission, please see EU mergers—ongoing cases tracker. State aid The Commission has launched an in‑depth investigation to evaluate whether selling the Nürburgring racetrack complex in Germany to Capricorn Nürburgring Besitzgesellschaft Gmb H complies with EU State aid rules; see also the press release. Note— For every live State aid decision and each formal State aid inquiry, consult EU State aid decisions—ongoing cases tracker. Upcoming dates For dates of forthcoming EU competition developments, please see the EU Competition calendar......
European General Court rejects bid to annul EU sanctions on Russia’s National Settlement Depository The European General Court dismissed an effort by Russia’s National Settlement Depository to overturn EU sanctions, finding the measures proportionate to the bloc’s aim of reducing Russia’s capacity to finance the invasion of Ukraine and supported by sufficiently detailed reasoning. The court stated that the contested acts are designed to cut Russian state revenues and apply pressure on the Russian government, thereby limiting its ability to fund its activities; consequently, targeting economic operators that provide the Russian authorities with material or financial backing aligns with that purpose and cannot be considered inappropriate. The EU introduced sanctions against the Russian government in February 2022 following the invasion of Ukraine, before expanding them to encompass entities such as the depository......
On 10 September 2024, the Pension Protection Fund stated that, at the end of August 2024, the combined surplus for the country’s 5,000 defined benefit retirement savings plans was £475bn, compared with a surplus of £475.5bn recorded at the end of July 2024. Such a surplus shows that assets within the savings plans are worth more than liabilities they must meet. According to Shalin Bhagwan, the fund’s chief actuary, outlook remains ‘relatively stable’, notwithstanding the slight dip......
In this issue: Competition policy UK antitrust NSI Act EU antitrust EU mergers EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Competition: a Lexis®Nexis community New and updated content Caselex Competition policy UK Government announces implementation timeline for DMCCA 2024; digital markets regime and competition reforms to commence in December 2024/ January 2025 Justin Madders, the Minister for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets, has delivered a written statement to Parliament setting out the schedule for bringing the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ( DMCCA 2024) into force, following Royal Assent on 24 May 2024. In outline, the DMCCA 2024 will overhaul the UK’s competition and consumer protection framework: it creates an ex ante regulatory regime for digital markets, grants the CMA markedly broader investigatory and enforcement powers, and introduces...
The two biggest insurance brokers globally say certain areas of Ukraine remain untouched by the conflict with Russia and present comparatively low risk for the industry. Their rare joint declaration follows recent months in which both firms rolled out programmes to obtain extra insurance capacity for policyholders based in Ukraine. The companies added that many international reinsurers have bundled risks from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, carving them out of reinsurance agreements, constraining (re)insurance capital and hindering stability and growth......
Wood and another v Desai and another [2024] EWHC 1893 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? From a practical standpoint, the outcome is vexing, as it uncovers a lacuna that could have been remedied almost a hundred years ago. The judgment observes that Re Harrington Motor Co Ltd, ex p Chaplin [1928] Ch 105 was viewed by the Court of Appeal as highly unsatisfactory, prompting the Third Party ( Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930, which paved the way for today’s TP( RAI) A 2010. Under that statutory scheme, had the company been insolvent at the moment the pay-out was obtained, the respondents would have been within cover and able to receive the funds (assuming they proved their claim). Here, however, the matter fell between the stools: the pay-out was made before the company qualified as a relevant person for the...
Torres v Apple ( UK) Ltd , ET case number 2212766/2023 Employment Judge Emma Webster, in ET case number 2212766/2023, concluded that the claimant, identified only as E. M. Torres, failed to show that Apple’s office attendance policy amounted to sex discrimination, whether direct or indirect. It was, the tribunal accepted, a valid objective for the technology giant to seek to minimise tax exposure from overseas work. In addressing the direct sex discrimination allegations, the tribunal wrote that it had not been given any evidence indicating the incidents happened because of the claimant’s sex. Torres worked for Apple in a variety of roles across eleven years. She had been based in Madrid when, in 2021, she accepted a new position based in London for that role......
The report observes that the main factor behind the widening productivity gulf between the EU and the US — which began in the mid‑1990s — is Europe’s missed chance to harness the first internet‑led digital revolution, both by founding new tech companies and by diffusing digital technologies throughout the broader economy. Spotlight on digital technologies Draghi’s analysis notes that, stripping out the tech industry, EU productivity over the last twenty years is broadly on a par with the US. However, Europe trails in the breakthrough technologies set to underpin future growth. Since 2017, about 70% of foundational AI models have originated in the US, and just three American hyperscalers capture more than 65% of the global as well as the European cloud markets, the report states. In practice, the EU cloud services market has largely slipped to US-based providers. Quantum computing is flagged as the next major wave of...
Lipton v BA City Flyer Ltd [2024] UKSC 24 The facts The narrative is simple and commonplace. Mr and Mrs Lipton held bookings on a service operated by the appellant, Cityflyer, due to leave Milan Linate at around 5 pm on 30 January 2018, with arrival at London City a little after 6 pm local time. Shortly before departure the pilot reported ill, so the flight was cancelled as no replacement could be found in time. The Liptons were placed on another service and reached London City at about 8:45 pm that evening, a little more than two and a half hours later than planned. They sought €250 in compensation under the Denied Boarding Regulation; Cityflyer rejected the request, arguing that the pilot’s illness was an ‘extraordinary circumstance’ within the Regulation, absolving it of liability. The denied boarding...
In a review published in early August 2024, the FCA detailed examples of both sound and poor conduct by eight firms against its own crypto-financial promotion rules. It also spelt out its expectations—seen by some lawyers as edging into 'regulatory creep'—and firmly warned it will act if firms do not now raise standards. Practitioners are especially uneasy about the regulator’s demand that crypto-businesses deploy the mandatory 'appropriateness assessment' to judge whether products truly suit consumers. According to Paul Harris, a partner at Osborne Clarke LLP, the FCA’s approach risks drifting from appropriateness into claimability analysis, particularly where its review concludes that firms must gather far more customer information in order to work out whether the product is genuinely and demonstrably suitable for them in practice. Legacy EU provisions under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ( Mi FID) clearly define what an...
On 23 April 2024, the European Parliament endorsed the European Commission’s package of payments services measures, originally issued by the Commission in 2023. The initiative aims to modernise and strengthen the EU’s digital finance ecosystem, and comprises Payment Services Directive III to be adopted alongside the Payment Services Regulation, together with the regulation establishing a framework for financial data access. The forthcoming PSD III refreshes the existing payment services directive, seeking to further hone and broaden the regulatory regime for payment services. It will also repeal and replace the Electronic Money Directive, creating a single rulebook overseeing both payment services and e‑money activities. A unified set of conditions would apply to licensing, conduct of business and prudential oversight, as e‑money institutions will be authorised as payment institutions under the payment services...
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