{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-prescribed-panels-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-prescribed-panels-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/166",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Prescribed Panels) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-prescribed-panels-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Right to select legal representative in clinical negligence and similar claims",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to:\n(a) clinical negligence claims;\n(b) claims for damages in respect of an alleged trespass to the person committed in the course of the provision of clinical or medical services (including dental or nursing services);\n(c) claims for damages in respect of alleged professional negligence in the conduct of a claim falling within paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above; or\n(d) claims which include any claim falling within paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above.\n(2) The right conferred by section 32(1) of the Act, as regards advice or assistance or representation by an authorised litigator in respect of any claim to which this regulation applies, shall be exercisable only in relation to authorised litigators who are for the time being members of the Clinical Negligence Franchise Panel.\n(3) Paragraph (2) shall not affect the Board’s powers under section 32(2) of the Act (assignment, or limitation on selection, of legal representative).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/166/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:37.743975+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}