Legal and Regulatory Notices

 

I carry out legal work as permitted by the Legal Services Act 2007 (“the Act”). 

DR Law is not a firm of solicitors or an Alternative Business Structure.  Neither it nor I are authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.  I am not entitled to carry out any "reserved legal activity" within the meaning attributed to that expression by section 12 of the Act, or to give financial advice.  I am not a solicitor.

 

Under the Act, I am entitled to provide legal advice and to provide assistance with most steps in connection with the conduct of family law cases.    However, I am not entitled to “the exercise of a right of audience” or to undertake “the conduct of litigation”.

 

Under paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 of the Act, a “right of audience” means the right to appear before and address a court, including the right to call and examine witnesses.

 

Under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 of the Act, the “conduct of litigation” means:

 

“(a)        the issuing of proceedings before any court in England and Wales,

“(b)        the commencement, prosecution and defence of such proceedings, and

“(c)         the performance of any ancillary functions in relation to such proceedings (such as entering appearances to actions).”

 

The quotations appearing on this website are from various editions of the publications identified and concern me whilst I was practising as a solicitor. 

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The trading name "DR Law" is not intended to denote or represent that I hold a doctorate, or am otherwise entitled to use the honorific title "Doctor".

 

 

Terms and Conditions

 

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website.  By using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full.   If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use or continue to use this website.  I reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to time.

 

You must be at least eighteen years of age to use this website.  By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent that you are at least eighteen years of age.

 

This website uses cookies.  By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to DR Law’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of DR Law’s privacy policy.

 

 

Copyright and Licence to use Website

 

Unless otherwise stated, I and / or my licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

 

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

 

You must not:

 

• republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

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• sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

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• show any material from the website in public;

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• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;

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• edit or otherwise modify any material on the website, or

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• redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

 

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation. 

 

 

Acceptable Use

 

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

 

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

 

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without limitation:  scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without my express written consent.

 

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

 

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without my express written consent.

 

 

Restricted Access

 

Access to certain areas of this website may be restricted.  I reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at my discretion.

 

If I provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

 

I may disable your user ID and password in my sole discretion without notice or explanation.

 

 

User Content

 

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including, without limitation:  text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

 

You grant me a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to me the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

 

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or me or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

 

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

 

I reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on my servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

 

Notwithstanding my rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, I do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

 

 

No Warranties

 

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  I make no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

 

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, I do not warrant that: 

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• this website will be constantly available, or available at all, or

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• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

 

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. 

 

The information and opinions contained on this website, including legal updates and articles published in the News and Updates section on this website, are for general information purposes, are not intended to constitute legal or other professional advice, and should not be relied on or treated as a substitute for specific advice relevant to particular circumstances.

 

You may be able to access other sites via links from www.drlaw.co.uk. These sites are not under my control and I am not responsible in any way for any of their contents.  

 

 

Limitations of Liability

 

I will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

 

• to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;

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• for any indirect, special or consequential loss, or

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• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

 

These limitations of liability apply even if I have been expressly advised of the potential loss.

 

 

Exceptions

 

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit.  Further, nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit my liability in respect of any:

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• death or personal injury caused by my negligence;

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• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on my part, or

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• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for me to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, my liability.

 

 

Reasonableness

 

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

 

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use or continue to use this website.

 

 

Other parties

 

You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect my employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as me.

 

For any queries regarding our terms and condition, please contact me.

 

 

Privacy Policy

 

I operate http://www.drlaw.co.uk (“the Site”).  This page informs you of my policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information I receive from users of the Site.  I use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site and to contact you when you have asked me to do so.  By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.   
 

 

Information collection and use while using the Site 

 

I may ask you to provide me with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.  Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name, business name, phone and email address ("Personal Information").
 

Log Data

 

Like many site operators, I collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit the Site ("Log Data").  This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

 
Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive.  Like many sites, I use cookies to collect information.  You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.  However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the Site.
 

Security

 

The security of your Personal Information is important to me, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.  While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, I cannot and do not guarantee its absolute security.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

 

I reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time.  I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site.  You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

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Contact

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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me.

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