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PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—11 September 2025 In this issue: Key PI and Clinical negligence news Product liability Road traffic accidents Regulation of healthcare professionals Other PI and Clinical negligence news LexisNexis® PI & Clinical Negligence Quantum Database LexisNexis® Quantum Portal LexTalk®PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts LexisNexis® Webinars Useful information Key PI and Clinical negligence news RTA Small Claims Pre-Action Protocol (PAP) updates—in force 1 October 2025 The Master of the Rolls has given approval to amendments to the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents (RTA Small Claims Protocol), coming into force on 1 October 2025. The changes address the handling of non-Protocol vehicle costs (NVC) in the Official Injury Claim Portal. Previously, both claimants and compensators had to upload NVC forms by hand. Under the updated protocol, the portal will automatically produce these...

Oil & Gas—UKCS licensing regime Regulatory body Up to 2016, oversight of the UK’s oil and gas resources chiefly sat with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), acting for the Secretary of State. Following Sir Ian Wood’s review of UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) oil and gas recovery (the Wood Review), government created an independent regulator—now the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)—to assume DECC’s licensing and regulatory duties in respect of all oil and gas exploration and production activities on the UKCS. This restructuring transferred responsibility for those matters from DECC to the new body. Until 21 March 2022 the NSTA operated under the name Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), which remains the company’s formal legal name and continues to appear in some legislation. The NSTA began taking on these roles from DECC on 1 April 2015, at first as an executive agency within DECC. The Energy Act 2016 subsequently established the NSTA as a fully independent regulator, constituted as an independent Government company, and amended the...

What is the policy and legislative background to the support for community energy projects? Legal and policy backing for community energy schemes is comparatively new; although early pledges prompted some movement, progress then remained modest for several years. A concise overview follows. The Community Energy Strategy arose from a 2010 Liberal Democrat manifesto promise to ‘encourage community-owned renewable energy schemes where local people benefit from the power produced’. That pledge appeared, unchanged, in The Coalition: programme for government. In 2014 the then coalition administration, through the former Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), issued the UK’s first Community Energy Strategy. DECC then released an update in March 2015. Like the original, the update emphasised enabling localities to make their own advances towards a more decentralised energy system with active community involvement. Further information on the Strategy update is set out in the section: What government policy interventions have been made to support community energy projects? below. DECC later merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, creating...

Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme The purpose of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme is to deliver long‑term price stability and revenue assurance for low carbon generation projects, and to unlock investment at reduced capital costs, thereby lowering the burden on consumers of financing the scheme. The CfD is a principal mechanism brought forward by the UK government under Electricity Market Reform (EMR) (see Practice Note: Electricity Market Reform (EMR)), as part of that reform package. The other flagship EMR instrument is the Capacity Market; for further details, see Practice Note: Capacity Market—key features. After EMR, the lead UK government programme charged with reshaping the Great Britain (GB) national electricity market is the ‘Review of Electricity Market Arrangements’ (REMA). For added context on REMA, including how it interacts with the CfD framework, see Practice Note: Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA)—key developments. This CfD tracker tool sets out the present position and latest updates relating to the scheme since June 2015, encompassing consultations, regulatory guidance releases, and significant modifications...