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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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Mergers The Commission approved the takeover establishing joint control of La Place B. V. by Koninklijke Jumbo Food Group B. V. and Vermaat Retail B. V.......
Five former Glencore traders, company directors and the group’s ex-global oil chief, billionaire Alex Beard, now face numerous counts for funnelling corrupt payments to officials across West Africa, in a scheme stretching back over 15 years. According to the SFO press release, the accused are charged in relation to the allocation of various oil contracts covering Cameroon, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast between 2007 and 2014. Two defendants are further accused of falsifying invoices sent to Glencore’s London office, described as service fees to a Nigerian oil consultancy, from 2007 to 2011. The investigation may broaden after the SFO stated on 9 August 2024 that it plans to file additional charges as it pushes forward with its bribery inquiry. This ranks among the agency’s most prominent matters in very recent times and, given the scope of the counts, could be the very...
MS Amlin Marine NV (on behalf of MS Amlin Syndicate AML/2001) v King Trader Ltd and other companies [2024] EWHC 1813 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? The decision confirms the enforceability of pay first clauses in marine insurance, and so matters to everyone active in this field and in practice across the sector. That covers not only commercial practitioners and arbitrators, but also insurers, charterers, parties entering into marine insurance contracts and those who draft such agreements. Its impact is broader for commercial practitioners advising, drafting or conducting litigation, because the defendants’ submissions required the court to consider how to approach and interpret contractual provisions that may conflict. The judge addressed three bases for the defendants’ further arguments, namely: instances of inconsistency or repugnancy between a term expressly negotiated and a term drawn from an...
A news release states the higher rate covers individuals relocating their tax residency once the decree dated 7 August 2024 bringing the increase into force is effective. The non-domiciled tax regime, created in 2017, remains accessible for as long as 15 years......
Cooper v Ignite International Brands ( UK) Ltd and other companies [2024] EWCA Civ 807 What are the practical implications of this case? While this judgment does not create binding precedent, it nevertheless illustrates that a contemnor has an automatic right to challenge their sanction where the court has imposed an immediate custodial sentence. It also stands as a reminder that such a right should be exercised with caution. Here, despite Mr Cooper’s limited prospects of success, he continued with the appeal and, by the end, was saddled with a further costs bill. The decision can be added to the existing criminal authorities indicating that it is a demanding task to persuade an appellate court that a sentence of immediate imprisonment ought to have been suspended......
The Association of British Insurers ( ABI) reported a 5% uplift in payouts for fire and flood claims affecting firms and householders, up from £1.3bn during the year’s opening quarter. The trade body noted that, even with home insurance premiums climbing, this segment of the market was turning ever more loss-making......
In a brief social media note from his centrist Fianna Fáil party, the Minister for Finance, Jack Chambers TD, confirmed that preparations for next year’s budget are under way, adding that he intends to bring it forward formally on 1 October 2024......
Under the programme, whistleblowers who voluntarily and promptly provide the Criminal Division with original and truthful information about corporate misconduct that leads to a criminal or civil forfeiture exceeding US$1m are now able to qualify for a monetary award. The award can be up to 30% of the first US$100m in net proceeds forfeited, and up to 5% of any net proceeds forfeited between US$100m and US$500m. Any award is subject to defined eligibility requirements, outlined below, and requires, among other things, the whistleblower’s co-operation. The initiative complements another pilot programme introduced earlier this year that offers non-prosecution agreements to qualifying individuals who voluntarily disclose information about the same types of offences. Together, the programmes reflect the DOJ’s continuing efforts to incentivise individual reporting, and thereby encourage companies to implement effective compliance programmes and make their own disclosures of potential...
JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank v Kolomoisky and others [2024] EWHC 1837 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? As a general rule, when documents or witness testimony are cited during a hearing in open court, the limits on their use in CPR 31.22 and 32.12 usually cease, because the material has entered the public domain. Permission of the court remains necessary where the material is treated as not having entered the public domain owing to the bar on collateral use (for example, where it is covered by a freezing order or a confidentiality club). In addition, if the documents at issue are schedules to particulars of claim, they are not, strictly speaking, part of the statement of case, and therefore cannot be inspected or disclosed without an application under CPR 5.4C. When assessing whether to grant permission, the court drew a line...
Convex Insurance UK Ltd Convex Insurance UK Ltd, alongside 13 fellow reinsurers, argued in a High Court defence dated 26 July 2024 that they have no duty to indemnify Carlyle Aviation Management Ltd and the leasing entity Sasof III ( A3) Aviation Ireland DAC, on the basis that the aircraft stranded in Russia is not a loss... According to the pleading, the plane is not lost and the claimants have not been irretrievably deprived of it during either the insurance period or the reinsurance period; consequently, there is no valid claim under the insurance contract... Carlyle and its co-claimants—including UMB Bank NA, the lender involved in funding the acquisition and running of the aircraft—brought proceedings against a group of 26 insurers in February 2024 to recover sums for the Airbus A330-200 placed on lease with Russian airline I- Fly. The aircraft...
Broker Gallagher cautioned that proposals to label schemes with green, amber or red scores—though simple for consumers to grasp—could, at times, conceal a degree of subjectivity within the scoring approach. This caution follows the FCA’s 8 August 2024 announcement of a joint consultation with the Department for Work and Pensions and The Pensions Regulator on a refreshed value-for-money framework. The watchdog aims to assess schemes using measures that look past a narrow emphasis on costs and charges, and instead take account of investment......
Mergers The Commission cleared: Goldman Sachs’s sole control of Crystal Group ( M.11606); and Walkdakt/ CVC Partners’ joint control of Resurs Holding AB ( M.11636) after phase I—see Midday Express. Notifications: Towerbrook Capital Partners/ CD& R/ R1 RCM ( M.11695), Baosteel/ Baowu Aluminium/ Kobeloc/ Kobelco Bao Automotive Aluminium Rolled Products JV ( M.11686), and BPCE/ SGEF ( M.11623)—all via the simplified route; see the EU mergers tracker. State aid Application in Case C-401/24 Stockholm Hamn ( Swedish reference) on whether annual State-funded compensation to a municipal joint stock company for free lock operations is entirely aid under Article 107 TFEU—see application. Application in Case C-459/24 P Svenska Bankföreningen and Länsförsäkringar Bank v Commission, appealing T-112/22 which upheld the Commission in SA.56348 ( Swedish tax on credit institutions)—see application; see State aid references and appeals...
Mergers Global Business Travel Group, Inc/ CWT Holdings, LLC referred to phase 2 The CMA has referred to phase 2 the anticipated acquisition by Global Business Travel Group, Inc ( GBT) of CWT Holdings, LLC ( CWT), following GBT’s decision not to provide undertakings in lieu thereof. GBT is a travel management company ( TMC) that delivers business travel agency ( BTA) services through both online and offline travel management services, including search, booking, and expense management, in the UK and worldwide......
Chief Judge James E Boasberg On 6 August 2024, Chief Judge James E Boasberg held that the court had jurisdiction to enforce the award, notwithstanding Ghana’s absence from the proceedings filed by GPGC Ltd in January 2024. He noted that GPGC had duly notified the state of the claim by sending the necessary documents to Ghana’s minister for foreign affairs and regional integration in Accra, in English—the nation’s official language—and securing confirmation of delivery. Ghana put forward no basis on which the award could not be enforced; and, in any event, none of the relevant grounds were engaged, according to the opinion......
More organisations across the UK look set to come under stricter cyber security oversight with the proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. A string of cyber incidents (not always criminal breaches) has struck the Electoral Commission, the Ministry of Defence, the private pathology provider Synnovis and, most widely, the repercussions of Crowd Strike’s failed cyber security update. Enquiries remain in progress, notably for Synnovis. Together, these episodes—and the scant outline of the new Bill—prompt fresh scrutiny of how cyber security is regulated in the UK. UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill In July 2024, at the opening of Parliament, the new government unveiled its Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. But what is it seeking to deliver? With current rules ‘now [having] been superseded in the EU’, the UK appears intent on closing the gap. The framework must be refreshed ‘to ensure that our...
Alchaster , Case C‑202/24 What are the practical implications of this case? The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice has delivered a ruling that matters for EU extradition practitioners handling requests from the UK across the EU. The Court made entirely plain its stance on the degree of mutual trust to be extended to the UK: despite 47 years of shared integration, the UK sits outside the Union legal order and, as a result, the relationship is not as exceptional as, for example, Norway. Provisions in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement ( TCA) concerning duties to uphold fundamental rights and legal principles in the ECHR and the Charter ( Article 524(2), TCA), and the guarantees provided when executing an arrest warrant ( Article 604, TCA), ultimately do not alter that position at all. Member State courts must conduct an independent assessment of any such arrest...
Challenge to Order made under section 62(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 dismissed ( R( Transactual & Anther) v So S Health and Social Care) R (on the application of Transactual CIC and another) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and another [2024] EWHC 1936 ( Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? Apart from the immediate ramifications for those subject to the Order, the ruling exemplifies the hurdles confronting both individuals and corporate bodies who seek to judicially review decisions in the medical-legal arena. Even with heightened scrutiny, and acceptance that the statutory wording sets a stringent bar—the Minister must reasonably determine an urgent order is ‘essential’—the imperative of protecting health warrants a ‘low tolerance of risk’. Mrs Justice Lang stressed that Parliament has entrusted Ministers with a significant power, to be exercised through their...
High Court Judge David Foxton continued a worldwide freezing order against people alleged to have helped the perpetrators of the One Coin fraud on investors, estimated to number in the millions, in one of the first hearings in the group action At an initial group action hearing, the worldwide freezing order was kept in place. No defendants have yet lodged a defence, as proceedings remain at an early stage, though responses are expected in due course. For the claimants, Anthony Peto KC of Blackstone Chambers pressed Judge Foxton to compel further disclosure from the defendants, contending that, given the ‘extraordinary’ context of the One Coin scheme—possibly among the largest frauds ever committed—it ought to be allowed. He said: ‘ It is extraordinary. If this is not extraordinary, what is?’ and emphasised ‘the excess of it, the amount of it, the number of victims’ as...
In the subsequent dispute over failure to deliver, a first arbitral award was issued by a London-seated tribunal in 2014. That panel concluded that A had failed to meet its contractual delivery duties. In 2018, B launched a fresh arbitration—this time seeking more than US$18bn in compensation for non-delivery. The new panel comprised three arbitrators: Charles Poncent (chosen by A), Klaus Sachs (chosen by B), and Laurent Aynès, selected by the two co-arbitrators. On 5 May 2020, this second tribunal handed down a partial interim decision titled ‘ Award on Termination’. In that Award on Termination, the tribunal determined that the contract had been lawfully terminated on 18 September 2018. For reasons set out in greater detail below, Mr Aynès and Mr Poncet were successfully challenged by A before the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC), which delivered its...
Adams and others v Ministry of Defence [2024] EWHC 1966 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling underscores the need to commence and manage group litigation using the most fitting procedural route. For group claims brought on a single claim form, convenience remains the sole criterion. Practitioners should weigh the court’s convenience alongside that of the parties, and be ready to substantiate, with comparative evidence, why the selected procedure is more convenient than any alternatives. Where the court has determined common issues in a group claim but individual matters, such as quantum, still require determination, careful thought is needed about case management. Although CPR 7.3 empowers the court to disaggregate claims, it is unlikely to be convenient for the parties or the court for every individual claim to be, in effect, re‑issued. Technical...
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This Practice Note This Practice Note reviews mechanisms used in settling litigation. A Tomlin order consists of a consent order paired with a schedule. It operates to stay proceedings on terms that have been agreed. The provisions contained in the schedule may remain confidential. This Practice Note describes the scope of confidentiality attaching to the schedule and sets out how it differs from a standard consent order. Sample wording for a Tomlin order is included, alongside links to precedents, as well as guidance on court approval. It also addresses varying, setting aside and enforcing a Tomlin order, including the considerations the court will take into account when handling applications for each. Further guidance is provided on interpreting and applying the relevant provisions of the CPR; however, some courts and divisions impose very specific requirements for both drafting and approval, and for approaching the schedule and confidentiality issues. Accordingly, you must consider the particular rules and court guide provisions in the forum where your claim is proceeding when drawing up the Tomlin order...
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