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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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Insurance & Reinsurance weekly highlights—13 June 2024 In this issue: Ukraine conflict Cases and decisions Market practice Regulation Solvency II New and updated content Case trackers Key dates Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Insurance: a Lexis®Nexis community Ukraine conflict Stranded plane claims belong in Ukraine ( Aer Cap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and others v PJSC Insurance Company Universalna and others) A London judge on 6 June 2024 determined that the dispute between insurers and aircraft lessors concerning aircraft marooned in Ukraine following Russia’s 2022 invasion should proceed in Ukraine rather than in England. See News Analysis: Stranded plane claims belong in Ukraine, UK judge says and LNB News 06/06/2024 55. See Practice Note: Ukraine conflict—aviation insurance claims, which examines the key areas of contention in claims under aviation insurance policies. It also outlines further points to consider for claims made under principal policies and...
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Trespass and adverse possession Easements and covenants Disputes and remedies Enforcing security and property insolvency Property disputes in Scotland Lex Talk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Additional Property disputes updates Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Latest Q& A Key developments and horizon scanning Law Society sets out key asks to next government The Law Society of England and Wales has outlined its principal asks of the next administration. President Nick Emmerson stressed that, whichever party succeeds at the polls, legal services should be placed at the centre of economic growth plans, our commitment to the rule of law renewed, and proactive steps taken to safeguard and expand access to justice. He highlighted the legal sector’s contribution to the UK economy and urged the...
In this issue: General election Public procurement Judicial review Governance Local government finance Social care Social housing Healthcare Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A General election Cabinet Office publishes new security guidance for elections The Cabinet Office has issued fresh election security advice, ‘ Online disinformation and AI threat guidance for electoral candidates and officials’. It offers practical steps for staff in political parties, local authorities, central government and the devolved administrations to lower the risk of hostile activity and to respond if targeted by online disinformation or generative AI material. It sets out how to cut the likelihood of attack and what to do if you are impacted by online disinformation or generative AI content. Readers should consider it alongside the National Cyber Security Centre’s ‘...
Antitrust Alchem receives SO concerning pharma cartel The European Commission ( Commission) has sent a statement of objections to Alchem over suspected involvement in a cartel centred on a significant pharmaceutical input, N- Butylbromide Scopolamine/ Hyoscine ( SNBB). SNBB is a key input material used to manufacture the abdominal antispasmodic medicine Buscopan and its generic counterparts. The Commission’s concern is that Alchem may have engaged in price fixing, allocated quotes, and exchanged confidential commercial information with other operators in this market, in breach of Article 101 TFEU. It is worth noting that, in October 2023, the Commission imposed fines totalling €13.4m on five companies after they acknowledged participation in the same cartel and agreed to settle. Alchem was not included in the Commission’s 2023 settlement decision, and therefore the inquiry concerning Alchem has proceeded under the standard...
In this issue: General election 2024 Trusts Court of Protection HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Insolvency— Private Client Contentious trusts and estates Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments International Question of the week Additional Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk®Private Client: a Lexis®PSL community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q& A Useful information General election 2024 General Election 2024: tax aspects of manifestos The Liberal Democrat manifesto, ‘ For a Fair Deal’, was issued on 10 June 2024. The Conservative and Unionist Party’s 2024 manifesto was released on 11 June 2024. The Green Party’s manifesto followed on 12 June 2024. The Labour Party manifesto was published on 13 June 2024. Each...
Every claim India advances for sovereign immunity are unavailing, ruled US District Judge Richard J. Leon in a 27 March 2024 opinion, chiefly because, as he noted, our circuit’s precedent nearly preordains the outcome here. Although foreign states are often shielded from litigation in US courts, there is a clear carve‑out in US courts for arbitration awards, Judge Leon further observed. Boiled down, the arbitration exception hinges on three jurisdictional facts, he explained: the existence of an arbitration agreement, an arbitration award, and a treaty that governs that award. Deutsche Telekom has carried its burden by producing evidence showing that all three are present in this matter, he concluded in this case here......
In this issue: Cross border criminal investigations Criminal procedure and evidence Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Food safety and hygiene offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Money laundering Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Cross border criminal investigations Ex- Goldman Sachs banker loses bribery extradition dispute A former Goldman Sachs employee has failed in his bid to block extradition to the US over alleged payments to Ghanaian officials, after a London court found on 7 June 2024 that the suspected offences were sufficiently tied to America to be tried there. See News Analysis: Ex- Goldman Sachs banker loses bribery...
In this issue Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar outlines the principal forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. Key developments Conservative Manifesto—key immigration policies The Conservative Party has released its manifesto for the General Election scheduled for 4 July 2024. It presents a series of proposals and measures focused on immigration and asylum that the party intends to introduce or continue should it win the election. This piece provides a concise overview of the main points. See: LNB News 11/06/2024 27. Liberal Democrat Manifesto—key immigration policies The Liberal Democrat Party has published its manifesto for the General Election taking place on 4 July 2024. It sets out a range of...
The Concepcion decision has, among other effects, made arbitration terms in consumer contracts increasingly prevalent and regularly enforced across the country. Though arbitration clauses are designed to give consumers a straightforward path to address their grievances, plaintiffs' lawyers have often submitted hundreds, if not thousands, of closely similar arbitration demands against target companies—using the prospect of eye-watering filing charges—to pressure high-value settlements. This fresh wave of mass arbitrations has prompted many retailers to wonder whether the upsides of arbitration clauses outweigh their potentially very costly downsides. Below, we briefly summarise the current landscape. The Mass Arbitration Threat Mass arbitration is a tactical manoeuvre in which plaintiffs' counsel lodges dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of near-identical claims all at once. At thousands of dollars per claim—which can include administrative fees, hearing fees, professional fees associated with the arbitrator and more—these costs can swiftly mount to...
In this issue Key developments and horizon scanning Property insolvency Property development Property in Scotland Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New Q& As Key developments and horizon scanning Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 Jennie Graham ( Knowledge Lawyer Director), Colette Brimble ( Senior Knowledge Lawyer), Emma Moscoso ( Senior Knowledge Lawyer), Sue Thompson ( Associate Director) and Rebecca Francis ( Partner) at Osborne Clarke consider the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act. Read: News Analysis: A subdued Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act has reached the statute book but is not as yet commenced in England. Property issues in the forthcoming election The British Property Federation ( BPF) urges the incoming administration to tackle the severe deficit of affordable housing. The BPF has also offered further views on the Liberal Democrats’ and...
In this issue: Liability Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Liability Cavanaugh v Folsana Pressed Sections Ltd PSYCHIATRIC INJURY AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS. The King's Bench Division rejected the claim by the claimant, former employee, against his former employer ( Folsana) for damages for psychiatric injury. The claimant, dismissed for gross misconduct, alleged that Folsana had suspended him without reasonable and proper cause, and contended that its breaches of duty, contractual and tortious, in suspending him and subjecting him to disciplinary investigation, resulted in his psychiatric injury......
Alongside the items reported in depth in the Financial Services news feed on 13 June 2024, subscribers may wish to note the following additional developments of interest: ESRB publishes EU Non-bank Financial Intermediation Risk Monitor 2024 FCA: Decision Notice: James Hill HM Treasury Notice, Russia, 13/06/2024 HM Treasury Notice, Central African Republic, 13/06/2024 HM Treasury Notice, Myanmar, 13/06/2024 ECB: Innovation and banking supervision ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end- December 2023 FCA: Decision Notice: Switch Cars 24/7 Ltd FCA: Decision Notice: KOPI Limited FCA: Final Notice: Global 4X Limited As well as our daily and weekly news alerts, Financial Services subscribers can choose to receive intraday updates at midday and at the close of the day, delivering a real-time summary of the very latest financial services developments that have occurred during the day. If you...
In this issue: Commercial Competition and state aid Data protection and cybersecurity Financial services Environment Life sciences TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Commercial Distance contract information obligations in case of conditional payments ( VT, UR v Conny Gmb H) Article 8(2) of Directive 2011/83/ EU, the EU Consumer Rights Directive ( EU CRD) setting out formalities for distance contracts, requires a trader to ensure that, when placing an order, the consumer expressly recognises that doing so entails an obligation to pay. Where ordering involves pressing a button or a comparable feature, that control must be labelled, in a clearly legible way, only with the words ‘order with obligation to pay’ or an equally clear and unambiguous wording indicating that submitting the order carries a payment...
In this issue: Financial sanctions Other financial crime Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Financial sanctions OFSI publishes guidance on licensing personal staff payments policy The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) has issued guidance setting out its policy on licences for payments to personal staff. Applicants should use it to understand when OFSI may approve, or decline, payments for the personal employees of designated persons. See: LNB News 12/06/2024 61. Other financial crime Financial adviser gets eight years for legal funding fraud Law360 reports that on 7 June 2024 a London judge handed a former financial adviser an eight-year custodial sentence after he was convicted of diverting £5.8m in undisclosed commission from an investment fund in a legal financing fraud. See News Analysis: Financial adviser gets eight years for legal funding fraud......
In this issue: Pensions and the General Election Trustees duties Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Pensions and the General Election Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat manifestos—key pensions announcements The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have now issued their manifestos for the General Election scheduled for 4 July 2024. The Conservative manifesto commits to retaining the state pension triple lock, so the state pension will rise each year by whichever is highest of earnings growth, price increases, or 2.5%. Other Conservative pension measures include: from April 2025, an age‑related tax‑free personal allowance that will also track the triple lock, thereby guaranteeing the new state pension always sits below the tax‑free threshold......
In this issue: Corporate governance Directors and company secretaries Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Corporate governance Io D publishes consultation on Code of Conduct for Directors The Institute of Directors ( Io D) has issued a consultation paper setting out a Code of Conduct for Directors. According to the Io D, the Code is designed as a practical aid in order to support better decision-making by directors and in order to offer organisational leaders alike a behavioural framework for fostering and sustaining public confidence in their business activities. The Io D underscores that adoption is voluntary and is not meant to impose any additional compliance burden. It invites both the business community and the wider public to share feedback on the Code by 16 August 2024. See: LNB News 07/06/2024 32......
In this issue: Adjudication Building safety Planning Litigation Construction industry news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Construction trackers Adjudication Contractual interpretation in adjudication disputes ( Dawnvale v Hylgar) In Dawnvale Cafe Components Ltd v Hylgar Properties Ltd [2024] EWHC 1199 ( TCC), the court reviewed the reach of a Tomlin Order/ Settlement Agreement concluded after settling enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision, and assessed whether its wording barred a proposed second adjudication. It also had to determine if that proposed reference raised a dispute already resolved by the first adjudication. This ruling underlines the need for exact drafting in settlement agreements and the prospect of further claims where matters are not expressly concluded. Written by Michael O’ Connor, partner at Charles Russell Speechly LLP. See News Analysis: Contractual interpretation in adjudication disputes ( Dawnvale v Hylgar). Building safety Building liability orders: court gives guidance on procedures in first reported case ( Wilmott Dixon v...
One year on from the UK’s first Med Tech strategy in February 2023, the Department of Health and Social Care has released a reflection paper: The Medical Technology Strategy: One Year On (see: LNB News 06/02/2023 34). The government’s review covers progress across the 12 months to June 2024 and signals the next phase of work, setting out ongoing and upcoming initiatives with associated milestones. We outline a selection of key points below. Some highlights from the analysis The central ambition of ‘right product, right price, right place’ remains, as do the four core priorities: resilience and continuity of supply; supporting innovation and dynamic markets; enabling infrastructure; and targeted attention on priority issues and markets, eg diagnostics. The government reiterates that the Med Tech ‘innovation pathway’—the sequence from market entry through to adoption, eg by the NHS and...
See Q& A: Is it a gift with reservation of benefit ( GROB) where an undivided half share of a property (that falls under one title and is split as to 1/2 being a basement flat and 1/2 being a commercial premises that is let) is given to the donee but the donor receives all the income and stays in the flat from time to time? Although the donee does not live on the land, they oversee management of the let commercial unit. Broad rules on gifts with reservation of benefit appear in section 102 of the Finance Act 1986 ( FA 1986)......
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Burlington Loan Management DAC [2024] UKUT 152 ( TCC) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling will be welcomed by the secondary debt market, as pricing for debt transfers commonly reflects whether relief under a double tax treaty is available. In this instance—mirroring standard practice—the consideration for the debt claim tracked market value but was adjusted to recognise that some buyers could access a domestic exemption from UK withholding tax or rely on double taxation treaty provisions, so UK withholding tax was not a lasting cost. Commercially, at the point of the offer SICL would have appreciated that BLM was outside the scope of UK withholding tax, though it would not have known the precise rationale. Embedded in BLM’s bid was the expectation that interest arising on the claim would be taxed in Ireland rather than the...
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