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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: General election announced for 4 July 2024 Cross border criminal investigations Criminal procedure and evidence Proceeds of crime 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 Local authority prosecutions Money laundering International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information General election announced for 4 July 2024 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sought and secured the King’s approval to dissolve Parliament, and has set a general election for 4 July 2024. Consequently, Parliament will be prorogued on 24 May 2024 and dissolved on 30 May 2024, in accordance with the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. This...
In this issue: Research and development Medical devices Disputes and regulatory enforcement Competition in life sciences Pharmaceuticals—regulatory framework Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Research and development Council of EU approves EU AI Act The Council of the EU has signed off the EU AI Act. Once endorsed by the presidents of the Council and the European Parliament, the law will appear in the Official Journal of the EU and take effect 20 days later. Most rules will start to apply two years after entry into force, with certain provisions operating on a different timetable. See: LNB News 21/05/2024 9. DSIT publishes international scientific report on advanced AI safety The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT) has issued the interim International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced...
Alongside the articles featured comprehensively in the Financial Services news feed dated 22 May 2024, subscribers may find of interest the following additional updates of note below: Correspondence from Citizens Advice subsequent to oral testimony on ' Insurance', issued 10 May 2024......
Mc Donald’s Restaurants Ltd v Shirayama Shokusan Company Ltd [2024] EWHC 1133 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? As is widely understood, a landlord opposing a tenant’s bid for a fresh tenancy under the LTA 1954, Pt II generally relies on two key bases: an intention to carry out redevelopment of the property (ground 30(1)(f)); or an intention to occupy and run its own undertaking from the demised premises (ground 30(1)(g)). The requisite intention must be in place on the date of the hearing of the disputed renewal and must be firm and settled. There must also be a realistic prospect that the landlord can implement that intention in practice. For s 30(1)(g), the landlord must plan to conduct the business within a reasonable period after termination as at the hearing date. In reality, in defended renewals the...
Pady & Others (the FDA claimants) v HMRC, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and the Home Office [2024] EAT 73 The Employment Appeal Tribunal concluded that permitting the workers to pursue their case afresh, after a separate panel had rejected similar claims by other trade unions concerning the same scheme in 2022, would unfairly subject the government to repeated litigation on the same points. The cohort was known as the FDA claimants because they were represented by the First Division Association, a trade union for civil servants in senior and middle management. They were among several groups that brought claims relating to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. The claimants contended that the scheme, which introduced a cap on redundancy and exit payments for staff approaching pension age, discriminated against them when compared with their younger colleagues......
The budget Irish carrier said two brokers will execute the programme, which is slated to conclude by 31 October 2024. Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG will buy back Ryanair stock valued at up to €300m from Euronext Dublin. Wealth manager J& E Davy Unlimited Co will purchase American depositary shares — US dollar-denominated equity in a non‑ US company — worth as much as €400m on the Nasdaq stock market. Ryanair said all repurchased shares will be cancelled. Legal counsel details for the buyback were not immediately disclosed. Shareholders gave the green light to the buyback at the company’s general meeting in September 2023......
Antitrust The CMA has revised its administrative timetable for its probe into suspected anti-competitive behaviour in the recycling of old or written-off vehicles, namely cars and vans, commonly also termed ‘end-of-life vehicles’ or ELVs. The authority confirmed the inquiry is still in progress and it will continue collecting information and analysing and reviewing the material obtained until September 2024—see further, the case page. NOTE— For all live behavioural investigations before the CMA, see further, the UK behavioural investigations—ongoing cases tracker Upcoming dates For dates of forthcoming UK competition developments, see further, the UK Competition calendar......
IC Power Ltd, et al v Republic of Peru, No ARB/19/19, ICSID On 17 May 2024, the ICSID tribunal issued its rectification decision. It had been sent to the parties on 3 May 2024 by the tribunal, consisting of Professor Luca G Radicati di Brozolo as president, David R Haigh KC, appointed by the claimants, and Eduardo Siqueiros T, appointed by Peru. Power plants In 2015, IC Power Ltd and its parent, Kenon Holdings Ltd, both Singaporean entities, obtained indirect controlling stakes in three Peruvian companies that owned and ran five electricity generation plants in Peru. On 27 June 2019, ICSID registered their request for arbitration against Peru under the Peru– Singapore free trade agreement. The claimants sought US$195.3m in damages from Peru, alleging harm to their energy investments arising from two new resolutions regulating the electricity generation industry in June 2016. They contended that...
See Q& A: The deceased was resident and domiciled in the Isle of Man. Most of their estate lay there, but they also owned UK shares valued at about £50,000. A grant of probate has already been obtained in the Isle of Man. Is a further grant of probate necessary to deal with the UK assets? If so, what steps are needed, considering the Will is no longer available......
Bim Afolami, the economic secretary to the Treasury, stated in a speech released on 17 May 2024 that the UK pensions system is overly fragmented and underinvests when set against other nations. He told attendees at a UK Finance event on 15 May 2024 that UK pension funds allocate too little to unlisted domestic equities, particularly relative to international counterparts. Afolami added that comparable defined contribution ( DC) retirement schemes in Australia commit ten times the share of their assets to private markets than like-for-like UK plans. He further observed that the share of British pension funds’ holdings in UK-listed shares has declined from......
The SPP warned that merging pots under the so called pot for life measures could increase risk of taxpayer-backed rescues should benefit providers fail. In November 2024, the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) outlined proposals for regulations enabling employees to choose to keep paying into a single pension pot, rather than opening a fresh benefit plan when they start a new job under the proposed pension rules......
Roughly 65% of the 1,500 people questioned said they had witnessed fraud or suspected the offence was occurring. However, 77% confessed they kept quiet for fear of reprisals, according to data released by the fraud detection software firm Medius. These results came from research conducted between April 2024 and May 2024 by Medius. The poll further found that 47% of respondents in this survey felt the UK legal system fails to sufficiently protect whistleblowers. In an online statement, Jim Lucier, Medius’s chief executive, warned that no organisation is immune to white-collar crime. He also noted that employees form the final line of defence against fraud, yet confidence to report suspicious activity is ebbing......
Ryanair has introduced a rule requiring travellers who do not hold an account, including people booking via online travel agents, to confirm their identity with biometrics by providing 'live self-images', according to EU Travel Tech. The association contends this constitutes a breach of the EU GDPR and has called on both the French and Belgian regulators to probe the matter and deploy immediate measures under the legislation’s seldom-invoked urgency provisions......
Kwik- Fit Group Ltd and others v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2024] EWCA Civ 434 What are the practical implications of this case? This Court of Appeal ruling underscores the need to assess the unallowable purpose rule whenever a debt reorganisation or refinancing is contemplated. It confirms that an unallowable purpose can be acquired under fresh arrangements applied to existing borrowings—even where the original funding was commercial, the revised interest charged as part of the restructure is at an arm’s length rate, and the losses to be utilised arose in unobjectionable circumstances. Tax advantages envisaged for a group may comprise part of the taxpayer’s purpose, so group tax planning should proceed on that basis. The judgement makes plain that hindsight offers no aid—showing after the event that no tax benefit ultimately accrued will not forestall the rule’s application, which turns on the...
Watford Control Instruments Ltd v Brown [2024] EWHC 1125 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment is notable for addressing the infrequently used basis for striking out proceedings for want of prosecution. It observes that the principal and best-known authority on the point, the House of Lords decision in Grovit v Doctor [1997] 1 WLR 640, predates the CPR. So too does a further case on the appropriate sanction when such want of prosecution is established, Board of Governors of the National Heart and Chest Hospital v Chettle (1998) 30 HLR 618. Nevertheless, the court confirms that the principles articulated in those authorities remain good law and have not been displaced by the advent of the CPR. Where the court is satisfied a claimant has ‘warehoused’ the case—issuing it, taking no steps to advance it, yet keeping it alive so it can be...
HMRC v Hotel La Tour Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 564 Hotel La Tour Ltd ( HLT) delivered management services to a wholly-owned subsidiary. Both entities were within the same VAT group. The subsidiary owned a Birmingham hotel, which HLT opted to sell to finance the development of a new hotel in Milton Keynes. The funding was realised via a sale of shares. HLT sought to reclaim VAT on the marketing and legal fees linked to the subsidiary’s disposal, arguing the services were directly and immediately connected to its downstream taxable activities, namely developing and operating the Milton Keynes hotel, and not to the exempt share sale. HMRC refused input tax deduction on the basis that the expenditure was directly and immediately connected to the exempt share sale. The FTT and the UT agreed with HLT, holding that the input tax was...
Criminal law, confiscation, time limits ( R v Haden, Smith, Blair & Rohelsaar and Mann) R v Haden, Smith, Blair & Rohelsaar and Mann [2024] EWCA Crim 344 What are the practical implications of this case? Across most of the appeals, advocates and, at times, the trial judge had relied on the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Iqbal [2010] EWCA Crim 376—now confirmed to have been wrongly decided. Read together, the judgments indicate a deliberate move by the Court of Appeal to foreclose attempts in the lower courts to argue that confiscation proceedings are out of time, or that extensions should be refused because of delay. In that shift, the purpose of POCA 2002, s 14(5) appears to have been overlooked. The court reached its conclusion by applying the principles taken from the House of Lords’ leading decision in Soneji [2005] UKHL 49 and the...
Public statement and non-public legal letter It revealed the step in a notice on its website, but provided fuller particulars in a private legal letter, seen by MLex, understood to have gone to more than 700 firms. Sony Music said it wished to reaffirm its reservation of all rights in respect of any text and data mining of Sony Music Group content, save where specifically and expressly authorised. Owing to the nature of your operations and publicly available details about your AI systems, we have grounds to believe you and/or your affiliates may already have made unauthorised uses of SMG content for the training, development or commercialisation of AI systems, the letter stated. The company asked developers and streaming companies to either: confirm that neither you nor any affiliate has made any such unauthorised uses; or disclose any such uses, including how the...
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