Legal Notices
Use of this website
Terms of use
Your use of this web site shall be subject to the terms that appear under this heading Legal Notices or elsewhere on this web site. We reserve the right to vary or alter these terms from time to time. Any such change shall take effect upon posting to this web site.
Disclaimer of liability
The information on this site about legal matters is provided as a general guide only and should not be relied on as a substitute for specific legal advice. We try to keep all the information on the site as up-to-date as possible but errors may sometimes occur. Links to third party web sites are made for your convenience and do not imply that we endorse those sites. Legal Risk LLP is not responsible for the content of any third party web site.
This website is not intended to be an advertisement for legal services or solicitation of clients except in those jurisdictions where specific regulations governing the practice of law define advertising to include websites.
Copyright
The contents of this site are protected by copyright. Legal Risk LLP permits users of this site to make copies of material on this site for their own use but not for publication. A reasonable number of such copies may also be distributed in paper form provided that the source is acknowledged and no changes to the content are made. (These permissions do not extend to any third party material included on this site.) Users are also permitted to link to this site provided that Legal Risk LLP's name remains visible. However, Legal Risk LLP reserves the right to withdraw any of these permissions in relation to any particular user at any time.
Privacy statement
Some sections of this web site invite you to request publications and information about legal topics and events or to contact us with comments and enquiries. If you do so we will normally keep your e-mail address and other details supplied by you on a database. We will not disclose any personal information you provide by means of this web site to third parties unconnected with Legal Risk LLP without your consent, except to our data processors or as otherwise permitted by the relevant data protection legislation.
Complaints
If at any time you would like to discuss with us how our service to you could be improved or if you are dissatisfied with the service you are receiving, please let us know by contacting the partner dealing with your matter or the firm's complaints partner, Frank Maher. We shall look at any complaint carefully and promptly and do all we can to explain the position to you. If we have given you less than satisfactory service, we shall try to do everything reasonable to put it right. Clients of the firm are entitled to a copy of the firm's complaints handling procedure on request.
In the event of your not being satisfied by our response, you may refer the matter to the Legal Complaints Service which is the independent complaints handling body of the Law Society.
The contact details for the Legal Complaints Service are as follows: Victoria Court, 8 Dormer Place, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 5AE (postal address); 01928 820082 (telephone); enquiries@legalcomplaints.org.uk (email address); www.legalcomplaints.org.uk/home.page (website).
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
We are not authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, but we are able, in certain circumstances, to offer a limited range of investment services to the client because we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We can provide these investment services if they are an incidental part of the professional services we have been engaged to provide.
If you have any problem with the service we have provided for you then please let us know. We will try to resolve any problem quickly and operate an internal complaints handling system to help us to resolve the problem between ourselves. If for any reason we are unable to resolve the problem between us, then we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and complaints and redress mechanisms are provided through the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Legal Complaints Service.
The Law Society is a designated professional body for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, but responsibility for regulation and complaints handling has been separated from the Law Society’s representative functions. The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the independent regulatory body of the Law Society and the Legal Complaints Service is the independent complaints handling body of the Law Society.
Insurance mediation
We are not authorised by the Financial Services Authority. However, we are included on the register maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activity, which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at www.fsa.gov.uk.
Regulatory information
Legal Risk LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC339694. The term Partner is used to refer to a Member of Legal Risk LLP. A list of the Members of Legal Risk LLP is open to inspection at its registered office, 28 Bixteth Street, Liverpool L3 9UH.
Legal Risk LLP is a 'recognised body' as defined in the Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom. The members of Legal Risk LLP are solicitors authorised to practise in England and Wales, and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom. The firm's SRA numbers are 494979 (head office in Liverpool) and 495894 (Oxford office).
Our professional rules may be accessed at www.sra.org.uk. The contact details for the Solicitors Regulation Authority are Ipsley Court, Berrington Close, Redditch, B98 0TD (postal address); contactcentre@sra.org.uk (email); 0870 606 2555 (telephone).
Our VAT registration number is 815 9308 20.
We maintain compulsory professional indemnity insurance of at least £3 million, each and every claim. The name of our primary layer insurer for the current policy period (1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010) is XL Insurance Company Limited. Their contact details are 70 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0XL (postal address) for the attention of William Wharton; 020 7933 7048 (telephone); william.wharton@xlgroup.com (email). Details of the minimum terms for the compulsory insurance, including territorial coverage, can be found at www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/code-of-conduct/professional-indemnity/minimum-terms-conditions.page.
Our address for service is above.