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Green Deal considerations in property transactions—checklist

Green Deal considerations in property transactions—checklist The Green Deal The Green Deal is a scheme, originally designed by the government, now backed by private investors, that enables landlords and tenants to make energy efficiency improvements to residential and commercial property funded through a ‘pay-as-you-save’ approach. Green Deal providers arrange low-cost finance for the improvements without having to pay any up-front costs. Instead, the costs of making the energy saving improvements are added to the energy bills at the property and paid off in instalments by the energy bill payer in line with the Green Deal Golden Rule. The Golden Rule is that the expected financial savings resulting from the energy efficiency measures must be equal to or greater than the costs attached to the energy bill. The burden of the repayments remains with the property, and therefore transfers to the new owner/occupier when a building is sold/let. The Green Deal is also complemented by the Energy Company Obligation, which replaced the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target and the Community Energy Saving...

Feed-in Tariff—checklist on issues in property transactions

Feed-in Tariff—checklist on issues in property transactions Feed-in tariff (FiT) The FiT scheme was introduced in April 2010 as a way of encouraging the uptake of a range of small scale renewable and low carbon electricity generation technologies (microgeneration) and applies to Great Britain. Those eligible for the FiT scheme: • are paid a specified amount for every kilowatt hour (kWh) unit of electricity they generate—the generation tariff • can (in addition) sell any surplus electricity that is exported to the grid (as opposed to consumed on site) to a licensed electricity supplier (usually the electricity supplier in respect of the site of the relevant generation facility) at a specified pence per kWh tariff—the export tariff • will (where energy is consumed on site) benefit from having lower energy bills, as they won't need to purchase as much energy from their energy supplier The FiT scheme came from powers in sections 41–43 of the Energy Act 2008. The detailed mechanics of the FiT scheme have been implemented by way of:...

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Digital Planning in England

Digital Planning in England Note that this Practice Note was last updated in April 2025. Introduction In October 2023, the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (LURA 2023) gained Royal Assent and became the first legislation to seek to define data standards and data software. Since then, the intersection of planning and digitisation has only increased in scale and scope. In the last four months, the government has published the ‘AI Opportunities Action Plan’, has issued a policy statement on the Data Use and Access Bill, while the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will have digital implications for energy and transport networks and smart city initiatives. The inexorable progress towards automation and digitisation has many benefits: diverting human resources to where they are most useful, extending the reach of the planning process and improving participation, and helping to understand and mitigate environmental issues. It also challenges existing norms on issues including equalities, human rights, public sector decision-making and probity in planning. Given the scale and scope of coming changes, it...

England and Wales environment tracker 2025—nature and biodiversity

England and Wales environment tracker 2025—nature and biodiversity This tracker tool tracks and summarises key new and upcoming legislation and consultations in England and Wales linked to nature and biodiversity. Retained EU law (REUL) is a legal concept describing EU-derived rights and legislation preserved by UK law after the end of the Brexit transition or implementation period at 11 pm on 31 December 2020 (IP completion day). Assimilated law is the name given to REUL which remains in force after the end of 2023. The re-categorisation of REUL (and associated terms) to assimilated law reflects a change in its status and treatment under UK law, in that it is generally to be interpreted according to ordinary domestic law and principles. From 1 January 2024, REUL is ‘assimilated’ into domestic law by virtue of the fact it is generally stripped of EU-derived interpretive effects (eg supremacy of EU law, directly effective rights, and general principles previously retained under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (EU(W)A 2018)). For more information, see Practice Note:...

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Policy—data subject access requests

Policy—data subject access requests 1 Introduction 1.1 The Company holds personal data (or information) about job applicants, employees, clients, customers, suppliers, business contacts and other individuals for a variety of business purposes. 1.2 Under Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679, UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), individuals (known as ‘data subjects’) have a general right to find out whether we hold or process personal data about them, to access that data, and to be given supplementary information. This is known as the right of access, or the right to make a data subject access request. The purpose of the right is to enable the individual to be aware of, and verify, the lawfulness of the processing of personal data that we are undertaking. 1.3 [Our data protection officer, [insert name and contact details] OR [insert job title or department]] is responsible for ensuring: 1.3.1 that all data subject access requests are dealt with in accordance with UK GDPR and other relevant legislation and guidance; and 1.3.2 that all...

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Do the cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/3134 apply where a consumer orders a bespoke product using distance communication (ie a distance contract)?

Do the cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/3134 apply where a consumer orders a bespoke product using distance communication (ie a distance contract)? The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (CCR 2013), SI 2013/3134, regs 27–38 (Part 3) sets out the consumer’s right to cancel doorstep and distance contracts. Certain exclusions apply. For example, the cancellation rights do not apply to contracts to the extent they are excluded under CCR 2013, SI 2013/3134, reg 28, which includes contracts for bespoke and personalised goods. If the cancellation rights do not apply because the contract falls within the list of contracts excluded from the cancellation rights set out in CCR 2013, SI 2013/3134, reg 28, the trader

What should be taken into account when drafting a contract for the supply of goods or services in light of statutory controls on rights in the event the customer is subject to an insolvency procedure including under the new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020?

What should be taken into account when drafting a contract for the supply of goods or services in light of statutory controls on rights in the event the customer is subject to an insolvency procedure including under the new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020? Restriction on termination clauses in supply contracts The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA 2020) introduces a permanent change to the use of termination clauses in supply contracts by introducing a new provision, section 233B, into the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986). As a result of the measure, where a company has entered an insolvency or restructuring procedure or obtains a moratorium, the company’s suppliers of goods and services (with certain prescribed exceptions) will not be able to rely on contractual terms to terminate the contract, stop supplying, or vary the contract terms with the company (for example—increasing the price of supplies). The customer is required to pay for any supplies made once the insolvency process has commenced, but is not required to...

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Life sciences industry comments on the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 2025

The UK Government has published its Modern Industrial Strategy 2025, outlining a 10-year plan to boost investment and productivity across eight key sectors, including life sciences. The strategy confirms that each sector will have a dedicated Sector Plan to provide specific detail, with the life sciences plan expected to align closely with the forthcoming NHS 10-year plan.

DSIT and DCMS publish sector plans for digital, technology and creative industries

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have published the Digital and Technologies Sector Plan and the Creative Industries Sector Plan under the UK’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation. Both plans reaffirm the government’s intention to support rightsholders in licensing their work in the digital age while enabling artificial intelligence (AI) developers to access creative material. The government is continuing to analyse responses to its consultation on delivering a copyright and AI framework and has committed to publishing a detailed economic impact assessment and a report on the use of copyright material for AI training, transparency and technical standards. No timeline has been provided for this work.