Legal and regulatory

Regulatory

Clarke Willmott LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registration number OC344818. It is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA Number: 510689), whose rules can be found at http://www.sra.org.uk/handbook/.

We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). If you need advice on investments, we will refer you to someone who is authorised by the FSA. We are on the register kept by the FSA, so we can carry out insurance mediation work (advising on, selling and administering insurance contracts). This work is carried out in line with the rules of our professional regulator, the SRA. You can check our entry on the FSA register at www.fsa.gov.uk or by contacting the FSA on 0300 500 5000.

A list of the members of Clarke Willmott LLP, and of those non-members who are designated as partners, together with their professional qualifications, is open to inspection at its registered office and principal place of business at 138 Edmund Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 2ES.

Any reference to a 'partner' is to a member of Clarke Willmott LLP, or an employee or consultant who is a lawyer with equivalent standing and qualifications.

"Clarke Willmott" is the trading name of Clarke Willmott LLP

Terms & conditions

Your access to this website is subject to these terms and conditions. By using this website you agree to be bound by these terms. We may change these terms and conditions at any time, and by continuing to use the website, you agree to these changes.

The material contained in this site is provided for general information only and does not constitute legal or other professional advice.

Clarke Willmott LLP is providing this site on an 'as is' basis and makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this site or its contents and disclaims all such representations and warranties. In addition, Clarke Willmott LLP makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the information and related graphics published in this site. The information contained in this site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. All liability of Clarke Willmott howsoever arising for any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Neither Clarke Willmott LLP nor any of its employees or other representatives will be liable for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of this site and we hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

We also expressly exclude any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user of our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including (without limitation):

• loss of income or revenue;
• loss of business;
• loss of profits;
• loss or corruption of data; and
• loss of goodwill

whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the exclusions and limitations in the clause are intended to limit any rights you may have as a consumer under local law or other statutory rights which may not be excluded nor in any way to exclude or limit Clarke Willmott from liability to you for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees or agents.

Although we use anti-virus software to protect the website content, we cannot guarantee that the downloads are free from viruses and advise you to take your own virus precautions.

You agree not to post or transfer to our website, any material which is obscene, misleading, inaccurate, defamatory or in breach of any copyright or intellectual property rights or that will cause any damage to data, software or the performance of any computer system.

Clarke Willmott LLP uses a page tracing system to track visitors to the web-site to determine what visitors to our web site find useful. We are interested in which pages are most popular and where visitors stay longest. We will use this information to help users to reach these pages quickly.

Although we have given you links to other websites, we are not responsible for any information they contain. Clarke Willmott LLP makes no representations as to the security, quality or property of any website which may be accessed through this website.

The content of these web pages is © Clarke Willmott LLP 2009 except where otherwise stated. Unless we agree otherwise you may only print or copy items for your personal, non-business use.

Use of this website is subject to English and Welsh law.

Privacy policy

In some areas of our website we ask you to provide information that will enable us to supply you with our services or contact you after your visit. We will also use this information to contact you to advise you of other services that may be of interest to you.

The information you provide will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent.

We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with all applicable UK data protection legislation currently in force, both in respect of the personal information supplied by you in general or as part of the recruitment process and in respect of any personal information which we may process.

In relation to the information provided by you on the general enquiries form, you agree that we may use such information in accordance with the purposes for which your information has been obtained.

In relation to the information provided by you on completion of a recruitment application form, we will hold that information for recruitment purposes only and we will not pass on that information to any third party without your consent. We regularly delete information which we no longer require. If any of this information changes, please contact careers so we can keep your information up-to-date.

If you do not wish to receive marketing material from us, please contact us.

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request details of the information we hold about you. If you would like details about the personal information we hold about you please contact us.

Further details of our and your legal obligations and duties can be found at the Information Commissioner website.

We value your feedback on our website. If you have any difficulty accessing or viewing our website please contact us.

How we handle money we hold on your behalf

We hold monies on your behalf as trustee and deposit these funds in accordance with the Solicitors' Account Rules with the following banks:

• Natwest Bank
• Lloyds TSB
• Bank of Ireland
• Allied Irish Bank
• Clydesdale Bank
• Yorkshire Bank
• HSBC
• Handelsbanken 

In the unlikely event of the failure of a bank which holds client monies it is unlikely that we will be liable to you for any monies lost. You may in these circumstances be entitled to compensation under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

We will, subject to prior consent, give certain client information to the FSCS to help them deal with such claims.

Please note that the FSCS limit on claims (Currently £50,000) applies to the total amount held by each individual within any one financial institution regardless of which account the monies are held in, therefore if you hold other personal money in the same bank where we hold your client funds, the limit remains £50,000 in total. You should be aware that some financial institutions trade under different names but constitute the same bank for FSCS purposes.

Complaints

We hope that you will be delighted with our service.  However, problems or misunderstandings can occur.  We want to know if we fall short of your expectations so that we can put matters right.  If you are unhappy with any aspect of our service, or about our bill, please read our complaints policy.