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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 Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation The office-holder Daily and weekly news alerts Key R& I law developments Insolvency Service publishes monthly insolvency statistics for July 2024 The Insolvency Service has released its monthly figures for July 2024 covering company and personal insolvencies in England and Wales. The figures show 2,191 company insolvencies—7% down on the previous month, yet 16% higher than July 2023. For individuals, total insolvencies in July 2024 stood at 10,524, a 24% increase compared with June 2023. See LNB News 20/08/2024 43. Insolvency Service's Dear IP guidance updated The Insolvency Service has issued revisions to its Dear Insolvency Practitioner ( IP) newsletter, which offers guidance for insolvency practitioners and other interested stakeholders. Additions include Articles: 6. Conduct report case closure requests, 70. Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act: new...
In this issue: Sustainable finance and ESG round-up Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Regulation for derivatives lawyers Regulation for banking lawyers Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Sustainable finance and ESG round-up For a summary of this week’s Sustainable finance and ESG news, see: Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round–up—22 August 2024. Sustainable finance UNEP FI releases recommendations for G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group In July 2024, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative ( UNEP FI) provided three input papers to the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, urging progress towards a nature-positive economy and a just transition. The main proposals are to: increase transparency in corporate and financial sector nature-related disclosures by addressing financial risks and dependencies linked to biodiversity assist small and medium enterprises ( SMEs) by adopting standards that are...
In this issue: JCT contracts Building safety Scots law Litigation Construction industry news Daily and weekly news alerts Construction trackers JCT contracts JCT Standard Building Contract suite and Collateral Warranty documents published On 21 August 2024, JCT issued the 2024 versions of its Standard Building Contract ( SBC) suite, which spans the main SBC agreement and sub-contract formats, alongside the companion guides and Contract Administration Model Forms, plus the 2024 Collateral Warranty documents. Reference copies for the whole set will be available on Lexis+® Construction within the sub-topic ‘ JCT contracts 2024’ (housed under the parent topic, ‘ Standard form construction contracts’), and can also be accessed via Practice Note: JCT contracts 2024—reference copies. For commentary on the principal changes across the SBC 2024 suite, see News Analysis: JCT 2024 Standard Building Contracts and Sub- Contracts released. Keep an eye out for our...
Mergers Lindab/ HAS- Vent merger raises competition concerns; provisionally recommends divestiture as the only effective remedy In its phase 2 probe of the completed Lindab International AB ( Lindab) purchase of HAS- Vent Holdings Limited ( HAS- Vent), the CMA publicly released provisional findings together with a notice of possible remedies. The firms both operate in the supply of circular ducts and fittings. The authority has provisionally concluded the merger poses competition concerns in the local areas centred on Nottingham and Stoke-on- Trent......
Providence Building Services Ltd v Hexagon Housing Association Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 962 What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment is an important Co A authority on a contractor’s entitlement to terminate under the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016. In short, the power to terminate pursuant to clause 8.9.4, where the employer repeats a ‘specified default’, is not reliant on the contractor having an accrued termination right in respect of the first default under clause 8.9.3. Thus, even if the employer ‘remedies’ the initial default before any clause 8.9.3 right arises—such as failing to make an interim payment by the relevant final date, but then paying immediately on receipt of the contractor’s default notice—the contractor remains entitled to terminate if the employer subsequently commits the same default again because repetition alone engages clause 8.9.4 regardless of whether any earlier right had...
In this issue: Enfranchisement and right to manage Enforcing security and property insolvency Contractual issues Electronic communications Repairing obligations and dilapidations Lex Talk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Additional Property disputes updates Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& As Enfranchisement and right to manage Failure to serve claim notice did not invalidate transfer of right to manage The Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the appeal in A1 Properties ( Sunderland) Ltd v Tudor Studios RTM Company Ltd [2024] UKSC 27, concluding that Tudor Studios RTM Company Ltd’s omission to serve a claim notice on A1 Properties ( Sunderland) Ltd did not undermine the transfer of the right to manage. The issue concerned the consequence of not complying with section 79(6)(a) of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2022 ( CLRA 2002). Court of...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar highlights forthcoming milestones of interest to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Interim Independent Chief Inspector outlines priorities and new plans for his role David Bolt, the interim Independent Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration ( ICIBI), has released an update on his priorities and set out plans for fresh inspection themes. He identifies completing the annual report, the Contingency Asylum Accommodation ( CAA) inspection, reviewing the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority, and two country of origin assessments ( Rwanda and Georgia) as core tasks. New areas slated for scrutiny include fee waivers, age...
In this issue: Data protection e Privacy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection ICO opens consultation on data protection compliance in generative AI supply chain The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) has opened a new consultation considering how responsibility for data protection compliance should be apportioned throughout the generative artificial intelligence ( AI) supply chain. This is chapter five in its consultation series on generative AI and data protection, first commenced on 15 January 2024. It responds to the recommendation for ICO guidance on assigning accountability within AI as a Service arrangements, and sets out illustrative examples of processing operations. The consultation is scheduled to end on 18 September 2024. See: LNB News 21/08/2024 25......
In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Consumer protection Contracts Data protection E-commerce International Public procurement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& A Advertising, marketing and sponsorship ASA rulings—21 August 2024 One complaint was lodged with the Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA) about a sponsored Facebook post by Just Eat.co.uk Ltd t/a Just- Eat.co.uk that featured Mc Donald’s products high in fat, salt or sugar ( HFSS), querying whether the ad had been directed at children. The ASA upheld the complaint. See: LNB News 21/08/2024 11. CMA accepts Meta's updated ad data use rules The Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA) has accepted Meta’s updated commitments on the use of advertising data. Following the CMA’s May 2024 consultation on Meta’s varied commitments regarding its ad data practices, Meta will introduce a new model ensuring all advertisers can use Facebook Marketplace without their data being used to improve the...
In this issue: Authorisation, approval and supervision Prudential requirements Financial crime and sanctions Complaints, compensation and claims management Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of capital markets Sustainable finance and ESG Investment funds and asset management UK Mi FID Regulation of insurance FSMA regulated pensions activity Payment services and systems Financial Services Enforcement Database Daily and weekly news alerts Intraday news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Authorisation, approval and supervision The European Central Bank’s Opinion, issued on 21 June 2024, regarding a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council addressing specified reporting duties in financial services and investment support ( CON/2024/21), has been printed in the Official Journal of the European Union ( OJ). See: LNB News 16/08/2024 10......
In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Appeal and judicial review Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Insolvency and Companies Act offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct A sense of renewal? Reflections on the SFO Annual Report Max Hobbs, a senior associate at Macfarlanes, unpacks the principal insights from the Serious Fraud Office’s 2023–2024 annual report and accounts, and explores what could lie ahead. See News Analysis: A sense of renewal? Reflections on the SFO Annual Report. Appeal and judicial review Thousands of fare-dodging convictions to be quashed As many as 74,000 fare evasion...
Pattinson v Winsor [2024] EWHC 1910 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling offers a clear recap of the principles for assessing whether behaviour amounts to harassment. It emphasises that communications need not be addressed to the claimant for there to be a targeted course of conduct. It also confirms that repeated, focused messaging can still be harassing even where the allegations contain a kernel of truth—though here the judge viewed the allegations against the claimant as groundless. Notably, the decision further clarifies that the Part 7 route is the proper procedure where the relief sought includes restraining publication by any means, even if the complained-of conduct is not itself a publication... What was the background? Factual background The claimant is a District Judge (in the Magistrate’s Court) and the defendant’s brother-in-law. The dispute emerged from...
In this issue: Judicial review Guidance on the post‑ Brexit transition Subsidy control and State aid Public procurement Other public law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Judicial review Judicial monitoring of compliance with orders in judicial review proceedings—( R ( ECPAT UK) v Kent CC) The proceedings in R ( ECPAT UK) v Kent CC illustrate clearly the deployment of suspended quashing orders and the court’s supervision of compliance with its directions. The case has produced four reported judgments in total. The second explained why suspended quashing orders and ongoing judicial oversight were apt here, and was covered in an earlier piece. This article sketches a brief chronology of the case and examines the fourth judgment, which further highlights the boundaries of the court’s...
Aiming to be among the most thorough filings on a single rule to reach the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA), the report sets a high bar. Specialists in the cohort, led by long-time sector figure Andrew Douglas, are examining scope, alignment, trading, liquidity, and takeaways from the US in depth. Called the T+1 Technical Group, it replaces a taskforce formed by the former government, which was voted out of office last month. Its mandate still focuses on how the UK Central Securities Depositories Regulation ( CSDR) could be revised to require a maximum one-business-day settlement cycle for trades executed on a UK trading venue in practice. The programme, involving a full 450 participants, epitomises a rulemaking effort propelled entirely by market actors themselves. Members come from 110 firms and bodies spanning banks, insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, clearing houses, law...
In this issue: Subsidies and countervailing measures Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Subsidies and countervailing measures Commission releases draft findings of anti-subsidy probe into Chinese BEV imports The European Commission has unveiled draft final conclusions from its anti-subsidy inquiry into Chinese battery electric vehicle ( BEV) imports, proposing countervailing duties ranging from 17% to 36.3% for companies such as BYD, Geely and SAIC, and setting a distinct 9% duty for Tesla. It also advises that authorities should not retrospectively collect any countervailing duties......
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 Practice Compliance forecast New Practice Compliance forecast as at 20 August 2024 Our updated Practice Compliance forecast (as at 20 August 2024) is now available. This edition highlights the SRA’s AML and sanctions data collection exercise and indicates when guidance on the new failure to prevent fraud offence is expected. See News Analysis: New Practice Compliance forecast as at 20 August 2024. Financial sanctions OFSI updates UK Financial Sanctions FAQs The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) has revised its FAQs, which provide concise guidance and technical details on financial sanctions. Twenty new questions have been added to the Russia section. These were previously within OFSI’s Russia sanctions guidance and have now been...
In this issue: Private children Financial provision International children Lex Talk®Family: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content New Q& As Useful information Private children Appeal against transfer of residence order ( LT v RT) In LT v RT [2024] EWHC 2085 ( Fam), the Family Division upheld the mother’s appeal against an interim care order made in private law proceedings under the Children Act 1989, which had directed the immediate transfer of the two children’s residence from her to the father. Difficulties arose because the local authority had produced a parenting assessment but did not serve it on the parents. The children’s guardian queried how any move would be implemented under a child arrangements order, as proposed by the local authority. The guardian submitted a Form C2 seeking an urgent listing; however, this was not...
On 21 August 2024, the JCT issued the 2024 versions of its SBC suite, together with updated 2024 JCT Collateral Warranties. This new tranche follows earlier 2024 publications as set out below: JCT Design and Build Contract ( DB) suite, released on 17 April 2024 (see News Analysis: The JCT Design and Build Contract 2024—what’s changed?) JCT Minor Works Contract ( MW) suite, plus the JCT Short Form of Sub- Contract and Sub-subcontract, released on 15 May 2024 (see News Analysis: JCT 2024 Minor Works Building Contracts and Sub-contract, Short Subcontract and Sub-subcontract released) JCT Intermediate Contract ( IC) suite, released on 10 July 2024 (see News Analysis: JCT 2024 Intermediate Building Contracts and Sub- Contracts released) For insight into the amendments across the JCT 2024 contracts and their potential implications for the construction industry, see also News Analysis: Talking...
In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Renewable energy Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Ofgem announces new approach to Strategic Innovation Fund Ofgem unveiled a refreshed methodology for the Strategic Innovation Fund ( SIF), intended to give innovators greater scope to submit or resubmit bids to the SIF and secure swifter routes to finance. Developed after wide-ranging dialogue with numerous stakeholders, the reforms are designed to increase the SIF’s agility and to open up additional chances to seek support and funding. See: LNB News 20/08/2024 7. Ofgem publishes cap derogation monitoring outcome letters Ofgem released outcome letters on cap derogation monitoring for a number of licensees. The correspondence sets out its evaluation and findings after annual oversight was introduced for derogated renewable standard variable tariffs, stemming from the default tariff cap announced on 31 October 2023. These...
In this issue: Ukraine conflict Types of insurance Regulation Case trackers Key dates Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Insurance: a Lexis®Nexis community Ukraine conflict Aviation claims Two insurers maintain they are not obliged to settle claims exceeding US$790m for aircraft stranded in Russia, asserting the planes have not been “lost” to their lessors under the policy terms. See News Analysis: Insurers deny liability over US$790m stranded aircraft claims. Types of insurance Marine insurance Broker Marsh has unveiled a US$50m product to protect against losses from port blockages, following disruption triggered by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. See News Analysis: Marsh launches US$50m insurance after Baltimore bridge crash. Warranty and indemnity M& A involving UK insurance agencies is on course to reach 150 transactions in 2024, despite a softer first half, according to a consultancy. See News Analysis: UK...
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