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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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What is happening? Recommerce—encompassing reselling, renting, refilling, repairing, and the reuse of goods—is already a notably valuable business model, with Barclays estimating it to be worth almost £7bn in the UK alone, and Visa projecting that figure will rise to £82bn by 2030. This expansion, particularly regarding resale activity, is widely considered to be led by Gen Z consumers in particular; more than two thirds now prefer to buy second-hand rather than new items, partly motivated by sustainability concerns. Why does it matter? The concept of recommerce is, of course, not new. However, fuelled by luxury retailers such as Selfridges adopting recommerce-led models, the growing number of dedicated rental or resale platforms, including Poshmark and Vestiaire Collective, and a heightened focus on luxury goods overall, these business models appear to be steadily moving from strength to strength across the market today......
The artists' complaint Filed in California federal court on 3 May 2024, the artists’ lawsuit focuses on Imagen, a text‑to‑image diffusion system that employs machine learning to create pictures from user prompts. Comparable legal actions have been brought against other artificial intelligence ( AI) firms, this appears to be the first aimed at Google LLC’s iteration, their counsel told Law360 on 29 April 2024. Matthew Butterick, one of the solicitors for the artists, stated on 29 April 2024 that the pleading outlines another episode of a multi‑trillion‑dollar technology giant opting to train a commercial AI tool on others’ copyrighted material without consent, attribution or payment. The claim asserts that Imagen is trained by duplicating an enormous volume of digital images and extracting protected expression from those works. The artists said it relies on a dataset assembled by the non‑profit Large‑scale Artificial...
Technip Saudi Arabia Ltd Technip Saudi Arabia Ltd told the Court of Appeal that Mediterranean and Gulf Cooperative Insurance and Reinsurance Co ( Medgulf) owes it funds to partially refund a US$25m payout it made after a supply vessel under its operation struck a platform in the Gulf during operations. The engineering company is appealing a July 2023 High Court ruling that Medgulf had no obligation to indemnify because the policy did not respond to this incident. Technip argues High Court Judge Richard Jacobs misconstrued the wording of the policy. According to Peter Mac Donald Eggers KC of 7KBW, for Technip, correctly read, the existing property endorsement does not eliminate cover for Technip’s liability for property owned by Al- Khafji joint operation not expressly scheduled, and the judge’s contrary findings were erroneous. The row arose after Technip paid US$25m to the owner of the...
A cross-party alliance of MPs and peers in Parliament’s Upper House has issued a report showing that 77% of those polled regard AI-created music that fails to acknowledge the original artist as theft. Four in five respondents said the law should be amended to outlaw using an artist’s music to train AI software without that artist’s consent. Kevin Brennan, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Music, said AI is exerting a profound influence on our musical landscape. He argued that the UK must seize AI’s transformative potential in shaping the future of music if it is to maintain its status as a powerhouse for music exports and the cultivation of world-class talent. Parliament, he warned, must confront the threat that unrestrained advances in AI could pose to the UK’s......
These additional sums will come on top of the £9.4m that employees have already received to date. The precise amounts involved have not been publicly disclosed. The necessary paperwork is expected to be finalised later in the year, delivering further redress to victims of the scam. In written evidence released on 1 May 2024, the Pension Protection Fund ( PPF) confirmed it had reached agreement with Dalriada Trustees Ltd on the method for identifying which members of the pension plan should receive top-up payments......
Mergers Lindab/ HAS- Vent merger referred to phase 2 The CMA has escalated to phase 2 the concluded purchase of HAS- Vent Holdings Limited ( HAS- Vent) by Lindab International AB ( Lindab), following Lindab’s decision not to submit proposed undertakings in lieu. Lindab is a ventilation business, based in Sweden and quoted on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange. In the UK, its main operations are via Lindab UK and Ductmann Limited, both producing and supplying ventilation system goods such as ducts and fittings. Lindab runs 21 branches across England and Wales. Its UK presence focuses on the manufacture and distribution of ducts and fittings through these entities. HAS- Vent is a UK-based firm with its head office in Wombourne. It likewise manufactures and distributes ventilation system products, including ducts and fittings, within England and Wales, and has 10 branches in total. On 26 April 2024, the CMA...
Open AI faces a complaint alleging a breach of the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) linked to its generative AI chatbot, Chat GPT, lodged by Austrian campaign group Noyb alongside an individual claimant. The data protection organisation, co-founded by data protection activist Max Schrems, asserts Open AI supplied inaccurate details concerning the personal data of a publicly known individual — in this instance, namely his date of birth......
In a split decision In a split decision, the Court of Appeal panel dismissed Project Angel Bidco Ltd’s bid to set aside a High Court judgment that ruled no pay-out was owed by its seven underwriters, among them Zurich Insurance plc. Justices Kim Lewison and Richard Arnold saw no basis to disturb the October 2023 ruling that the policy carves out losses tied to bribery and corruption—which underlay the criminal allegations against the Liverpool City Council contractor acquired by Project Angel—and, as a result, the underwriters were not liable for losses arising from the company’s collapse. According to the High Court judgment, the dispute followed Project Angel’s 2019 acquisition of Knowsley Contractors Ltd—now defunct and formerly trading as King Construction—for about £16.7m. The lower court recorded that the business delivered civil engineering and construction services to Liverpool City Council in north-west England. The...
What are the practical implications of this case? This case’s practical significance lies in the court having to sanction the scheme in an altered form when, after the creditors’ meeting, it emerged that a condition precedent could not be met. The court observed that the resolution presented to, and passed by, the scheme creditors was to approve the scheme subject to whatever modification, addition or condition the court might approve or impose. Both the original and amended schemes also contained a variation provision stating, in substance, that the Company may, at any Sanction Hearing and, where reasonably practicable following consultation with the Ad Hoc Committee’s advisers, give consent on behalf of all Scheme Creditors to any change to, or augmentation of, the Scheme, or to any terms or conditions the Court considers appropriate to approve or impose, provided such change would not, directly or...
Binyon and Parker (as Joint Administrators of VE Global UK Ltd) v Suzerain Investment Holdings Ltd and others [2024] EWHC 749 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of the case? This decision underscores the need to follow the CA 2006 registration regime and to file with the registrar the very instrument that gives rise to the charge. Although a certificate of registration is treated as ‘conclusive evidence’ that the requisite papers were delivered, and courts have on occasion treated charges as effective despite certificates masking flaws in the filing process, that does not stop the court asking whether the documents required to constitute a valid charge were in fact lodged. Non‑registration of a charge does not, naturally, disturb the existence or enforceability of the underlying indebtedness. Yet the security itself will be ineffective as against an appointed liquidator or...
Additional developments Alongside the items featured in depth in the Financial Services news feed on 3 May 2024, subscribers may wish to note these further updates: EIOPA’s IORP Risk Dashboard flags market risk as the principal issue for occupational pension schemes. OJEU: Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation ( EU) 2021/776 (11 May 2021) setting templates for certain forms and technical rules for effective information exchange under Regulation ( EU) 2018/1672 on controls on cash entering or exiting the Union. ECB: Guide on effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting ( May 2024). FCA: Decision Notices concerning A Street Motors; RIF Prestige Car Limited; DC Car Sales Ltd; Holland M/ C Limited; Heaunique Limited; ALEX CARS BRISTOL LTD; Car and Van Broker Ltd; and DHARAM GOLD EXCHANGE LTD. HM Treasury Notices: Global Human Rights (03/05/2024) and Russia...
In a statement, the Pensions Scams Industry Group reported that, since 2014, volunteer efforts have enabled it to make headway against pension fraud. However, the organisation now fears for its sustainability, as volunteer numbers have dwindled due to competing demands. The group has been instrumental in creating protections to shield pension scheme members from criminal activity. It issued its first code of good practice in 2015, and subsequent revisions have helped to cement that code as the sector’s standard for effectively tackling pension scams......
The Economic Crime Manifesto II The All- Party Parliamentary Group ( APPG) on Anti- Corruption and Responsible Tax, alongside the APPG on Fair Business Banking, has released The Economic Crime Manifesto II (the Manifesto). It follows the 2022 document and arrives amid intense focus and action on financial crime. Over intervening years, changes at home and abroad have unfolded, sharpening attention on risks and the UK’s capacity to respond. Serving as a sequel to the 2022 edition, this iteration lands amid intensified scrutiny and momentum across the financial crime landscape. In the meantime, notable shifts have occurred both internationally and at home. As the Manifesto underscores, the risk posed by financial crime—especially fraud—now appears particularly acute in the UK. Among the stark findings it sets out, the UK’s illicit finance issues are estimated to cost around £350bn annually, approaching 15% of national GDP. The...
Fount Construction Ltd v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 340 ( TC) All three invoices came from one supplier and each bore a single line reading: ‘ Building Works at the above’. A ‘ Job address’ field featured on the paperwork, into which the address of the specific building site was entered. They stated that VAT was charged at the standard rate and then presented a VAT‑exclusive subtotal, the VAT figure, and the overall total......
Latest REUL reform SIs laid for sifting On 22 April 2024, the following SI was placed before the sifting process: The Health Claims ( Revocation) Regulations 2024 A complete list of proposed negative procedure SIs under REUL( RR) A 2023 can be found here. Sifting process for proposed negative procedure SIs introduced under REUL( RR) A 2023 REUL( RR) A 2023 provides a suite of delegated powers enabling the government and the devolved administrations to make SIs that reform REUL and assimilated law. The principal legislative powers are contained in REUL( RR) A 2023, ss 11–16. The key procedural requirements, including the arrangements for parliamentary scrutiny of these instruments, are set out in REUL( RR) A 2023, s 20 and Schedules 4–5......
Public disclosures to compare pension schemes The government said that opening up disclosures will enable employers and workers to compare pension schemes more easily. But the Society of Pension Professionals warned the policy could also weaken pension funds’ decision-making authority. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt outlined the disclosure programme in March 2024, alongside a push for UK pension funds to invest at least 5% of assets in unlisted British companies. In a paper dated 1 May 2024, the SPP noted that the main pension providers—covering more than 15 million UK pension savers—already publish their UK investments via Corporate Adviser magazine’s annual Master Trust & GPP report. The SPP pointed out that such disclosures are already available through that report. According to the paper, the results indicate that funds with higher UK equity weightings have typically underperformed those with minimal or no exposure to the UK...
The EBA will start collecting information on natural persons through its AML/ CFT database, Eu Re CA Beginning in May 2024, supervisors across the European Union ( EU) will be able to submit names of natural persons to Eu Re CA, the European Banking Authority’s ( EBA) EU-wide central database for anti-money laundering ( AML) and countering the financing of terrorism ( CFT). Through Eu Re CA, the EBA has helped to ensure that supervision is more informed, targeted and effective, improving the focus and quality of oversight. With this measure, the EBA will further reinforce the EU’s fight against money laundering ( ML) and terrorist financing ( TF), supporting more co-ordinated action. Eu Re CA contains information on serious AML/ CFT deficiencies within individual financial institutions, as identified by EU supervisors, enabling issues to be flagged and addressed more...
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Case no T 15200-22: Kingdom of Spain v Tridos SICAV II What are the practical implications of this case? In this dispute, the claimant, the Kingdom of Spain, first and foremost pursued annulment of the arbitral award under s 33(1) or (2) of the Swedish Arbitration Act ( SAA), asserting the award was issued in a way that conflicted with the fundamental principles of the Swedish legal order (ordre public). In the alternative, Spain sought to have the award set aside under SAA, s 34(1). The Court of Appeal opened its analysis by emphasising that the invalidity grounds in SAA, s 33 and the setting-aside grounds in SAA, s 34 protect different interests. Invalidity is directed at safeguarding public or third-party interests, while setting aside is designed to protect the parties to the arbitration. Accordingly, invalidity grounds can be relied upon without any time bar, and the...
In this issue: International arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other ADR and arbitration-related news Lex Talk®Arbitration: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content International arbitration Hong Kong—award enforcement—challenge— Soleh guidelines In China National Machine Tools v Nationsync Electrical and Machinery, China National Machine Tools (‘ Plaintiff’) sought recognition and enforcement in Hong Kong of a CIETAC award rendered in Mainland China against Nationsync Electrical and Machinery (‘ Defendant’). The award obliged the Defendant to pay the Plaintiff more than RMB 232m, and the Hong Kong court granted leave to enforce. The Defendant relied on section 95 of the Arbitration Ordinance to resist enforcement and applied for a stay of the enforcement proceedings. In parallel, the Plaintiff asked for security—both for costs and for the awarded sum—if any stay were granted. The Plaintiff objected to providing security, asserting that, since Karaha Bodas v...
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