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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: Public procurement Education Social housing Children’s social care Healthcare Planning Local government finance Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q& As Public procurement Cabinet Office publishes new National Procurement Policy Statement The Cabinet Office has issued a refreshed National Procurement Policy Statement ( NPPS), superseding the June 2021 version and outlining strategic priorities for public purchasing. Laid before Parliament under section 13(3)(c) of the Procurement Act 2023, it takes effect on 28 October 2024. Streamlined to reflect that many principles in the earlier NPPS are now statutory within the Procurement Act 2023, this edition concentrates chiefly on procurement objectives. A new section on value for money underscores that contracting authorities must put value for money at the heart of all procurement activities. The NPPS also addresses small and...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Private children Public children Lex Talk®Family: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content New legislation New Q& As Useful information Practice and procedure Practice Guidance: Urgent applications, out of hours applications and bundles in the Family Division of the High Court On 10 May 2024, Sir Andrew Mc Farlane, President of the Family Division, issued Practice Guidance on Urgent Applications, Out of Hours Applications and Bundles in the Family Division of the High Court. Refer to: LNB News 13/05/2024 43. FPRC meeting minutes The minutes of the Family Procedure Rule Committee meeting on 4 March 2024 are now available. Private children Gender dysphoria ( O v P and another [2024] EWHC 1077 ( Fam)) In O v P [2024] EWHC 1077 ( Fam), the Family Division determined two...
In this issue: Brexit headlines Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Constitutional and administrative law Judicial review Information law Subsidy control and State aid Public procurement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit headlines ESC publishes letter criticising EU- UK Gibraltar agreement The European Scrutiny Committee ( ESC) has released a letter from its Chair, Sir William Cash, to the Foreign Minister, David Rutley, setting out strong objections to the draft EU– UK arrangements for Gibraltar’s border with Spain. He argues the package presented by ministers at an evidence session on 30 April 2024 would amount to a ‘serious diminution of UK sovereignty’. The letter also probes how UK nationals and Gibraltarians would be processed were Schengen checks to operate at...
In this issue: Court of Protection; UK taxes for Private Client; 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& As; Useful information. Court of Protection Court of Protection rules that evidence from a family member and ‘expert by experience’ is not admissible in dispute over treatment plan ( University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v HER) This Court of Protection matter involved HER, a 53-year-old with a metabolic disorder and epilepsy, who lacks capacity to decide on her medical care. A disagreement arose between the treating hospital trust (the Trust) and HER’s sister ( SR) about the Trust’s proposed new...
In this issue: Key R& I developments Corporate insolvency processes Personal insolvency Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation Restructuring Daily and weekly news alerts New content Key R& I developments Insolvency Service publishes annual review of IPR for 2023 The Insolvency Service has issued its 2023 annual review of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation, detailing oversight of the profession, the Service’s supervisory work, and actions taken by regulators against their member insolvency practitioners. See: LNB News 15/05/2024 42. Insolvency Service publishes April 2024 enforcement outcomes management information The Insolvency Service has refreshed its enforcement outcomes management information for April 2024, recording 93 director disqualifications and 12 bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions arising from enforcement action. See: LNB News 10/05/2024 36. Corporate insolvency processes Two companies wound up despite disputes and cross claims raised in respect of the petition debts ( Khera v Palladian Capital...
By 560 votes to 43, with 27 abstentions, the European Parliament backed a recommendation that the EU pull out of the increasingly contested treaty. This came after a late‑2022 attempt to modernise the ageing, post‑ Soviet‑era pact fell short. For years, European critics have argued the ECT shields fossil fuels over green energy initiatives by letting investors launch arbitration claims against states that introduce policies affecting their profits, including sudden bans on particular energy sources. The outcry intensified when Sweden’s Vattenfall brought an investor‑state case against Germany in 2012 over its nuclear phase‑out, and when UK‑based Rockhopper Exploration plc sued Italy after the country prohibited oil and gas projects off its coastline. Vattenfall’s claim was settled in 2021 for some US$1.5bn, while a year later Rockhopper secured a 190 m euro ( US$203.2m) arbitral award against Italy......
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Business, investment and non-sponsored work Sponsored work Work sponsorship: sponsors Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Please note, our Immigration calendar highlights key upcoming changes of interest to business immigration advisers. NIHRC issues response to Illegal Migration Act judgment The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission ( NIHRC) has welcomed the High Court’s ruling in re NIHRC and JR 295 ( Illegal Migration Act 2023), which determined that several provisions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 ( IMA 2023) contravene the UK’s duties under Article 2(1) of the Windsor Framework and the European Convention on Human Rights. Under the Windsor Framework, following the UK’s exit from the EU there must be no...
In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Renewable energy Conventional power, waste to energy, biomass, and CHP projects International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Key developments and materials DBT publishes UK’s critical mineral strategy The Department for Business and Trade ( DBT) has released a suite of resources setting out the government’s plan to secure supplies of critical minerals for UK industry and energy security. The Resilience for the Future policy paper explains that the UK will speed up growth of domestic capability, work with international partners, and strengthen global markets so they are more responsive, transparent, and responsible. See: LNB News 10/05/2024 31. Electricity and gas market regulation and...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Costs and funding Cross-border disputes New content Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Announcements and speeches New webpage for the Online Procedure Rule Committee: The Online Procedure Rule Committee ( OPRC) has unveiled a site setting out its remit, membership and published meeting minutes. The OPRC drafts rules that regulate the practice and procedure of online court proceedings and is led by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls. Minutes have been released for June 2023, July 2023 and October 2023—see: LNB News 14/05/2024 52— Online Procedure Rule Committee—webpage and minutes published. Speech by Justice Nicklin: The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ( CTJ) has released a lecture by Justice Nicklin on ‘ Transparency and Open Justice– Opportunities and challenges’. In it, Justice Nicklin explores obstacles confronting the justice system, particularly around...
In this issue: Data protection Financial sanctions Other financial crime Cybersecurity Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection ICO releases report on prevalence of data breaches and steps to prevent breaches The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) has published a report setting out data on the scale of data breaches. It offers practical guidance to help organisations identify frequent security weaknesses, bolster protections and prevent future incidents before they arise. The report highlights five principal causes of cyber security breaches: phishing, brute force attempts, denial of service, errors and supply chain attacks. For each area, it describes how attacks unfold, key considerations to reduce risk and likely developments ahead. See: LNB News 10/05/2024 35. Financial sanctions Law Society makes recommendations on Russian sanctions The Law Society of England and Wales has submitted...
In this issue Trade marks/passing off Copyright and related rights Patents General intellectual property News alerts, daily and weekly Fresh and revised content Key dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q and A Useful information Trade marks/passing off Supreme Court finds directors need not account for profits following trade mark infringement ( Lifestyle Equities v Ahmed) In Lifestyle Equities v Ahmed [2024] UKSC 17, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Lifestyle Equities’ appeal. It decided the defendant company directors, the Ahmeds, were not liable for procuring Lifestyle’s trade mark infringements, nor under a common design, because they lacked knowledge of the essential facts that made the use of the signs in question, by the company of which they were directors, wrongful. The Court further held the Ahmeds could not be ordered to account for profits made by the...
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On 15 May 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal ( JCT) released its 2024 versions of the Minor Works Building Contract ( MW), the Minor Works Building Contract with contractor’s design ( MWD), the Minor Works Sub- Contract with sub-contractor’s design ( MWSub/ D), the Short Form of Sub- Contract ( Short Sub) and the Sub-subcontract ( Sub Sub) 2024. This follows the 17 April 2024 publication of the Design and Build Contract and the Design and Build Sub- Contract Agreement and Conditions, together with the related guides (see News Analysis: The JCT Design and Build Contract 2024—what’s changed?). These forms sit alongside the April releases and guides. The JCT MW and MWD suites are geared for schemes of relatively modest value where the Contractor must perform the construction works, and, for MWD, also undertake a defined element of the design...
For instance, disagreements about purchase price adjustments are commonly sent to an independent accountant to settle the parties’ differences concerning accounting methods and computations. How that process is characterised—as arbitration or as an expert determination—has several important consequences. A principal distinction is that arbitrators typically possess full authority to rule on all legal and factual matters required to resolve a dispute, including interpreting the purchase agreement, whereas experts are confined to resolving discrete factual issues within their expertise and to interpreting the relevant contract only so far as necessary to decide those factual points. A further divergence concerns the standard of review applicable to efforts to challenge decisions by arbitrators as opposed to experts. Consequently, parties often find themselves litigating, as an initial question, whether the purchase agreement’s dispute procedure constitutes an expert determination or an arbitration. That conclusion dictates whether...
Beech Developments ( Manchester) Ltd and others v HMRC [2024] EWCA Civ 486 There are two distinct regimes within the Income Tax ( Construction Industry Scheme) Regulations 2005 ( SI 2005/2045). Regulation 9 permits HMRC, where it is fair and reasonable, to refrain from collecting CIS duties, while regulation 13 deals with both the collection and enforcement of liabilities actually due. The decision exposed how these parallel provisions fail to dovetail neatly. Under regulation 9 of the CIS Regulations ( SI 2005/2045), HMRC may decline to pursue CIS deductions in specified situations. One such instance is where HMRC is satisfied that the recipient has already returned the income on their own tax returns, since pressing for payment again would amount to double taxation. The case highlighted the practical tension between discretionary non-collection and the machinery for enforcing sums assessed in...
Groom v Maritime and Coastguard Agency [2024] EAT 71 What are the practical implications of this decision? This ruling confirms that the authorities do not recognise volunteering as a sui generis category, nor do they establish, as a point of law, that a volunteer necessarily renders services outside a contract. A central element in the EAT’s reasoning was the claimant’s entitlement to remuneration, and whether that right subsisted. The tribunal considered that the need to submit a claim, rather than receive automatic disbursement, did not affect the underlying right; it was merely the method by which payment was processed. Moreover, the circumstance that numerous other volunteers chose not to lodge claims was immaterial to whether the entitlement to pay existed, and could not defeat a subsisting entitlement. Practitioners should bear in mind that the terminology applied to the parties’ relationship is not...
The Solicitors Regulation Authority ( SRA) plans to refer a solicitor to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ( SDT) in relation to a purportedly menacing SLAPP (shorthand for strategic lawsuit against public participation) aimed at silencing Dan Neidle. Neidle, once a partner at Clifford Chance LLP, set up Tax Policy Associates, a think tank. On 10 May 2024, the SRA confirmed its intention to refer a matter concerning an Osborne Clarke individual. The watchdog declined to provide more information or verify the partner’s identity. On his Tax Policy Associates website, Neidle published extensive material about his inquiry into Zahawi’s tax affairs. He outlined exchanges with Osborne Clarke partner, Ashley Hurst. Neidle released a letter from Hurst requesting that he withdraw assertions that the MP had been dishonest. The correspondence was marked confidential and ‘without prejudice’, and warned it would be a ‘serious matter’ if he...
Mergers Alpha Theta/ Serato referred to phase 2 The CMA has moved to a phase 2 investigation of the expected acquisition of Serato Audio Research Limited ( Serato) by Alpha Theta Corporation ( ATC), after the parties elected not to offer undertakings in lieu. ATC, based in Japan, supplies DJ software worldwide for use on laptops and desktops under the rekordbox name, and markets DJ hardware carrying the Pioneer DJ and Alpha Theta brands. ATC also offers We DJ, a DJ software application intended solely for mobile and tablet devices......
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