Legal Notices

Dransfield Partners

Dransfield Partners is the trading name of Dransfield Legal Limited a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales (CRO number 14726095). Its registered office address and principal place of business is 18 Downs Hill, London, BR3 5HB, United Kingdom.

The personnel of Dransfield Partners who we call ‘partners’ are either solicitors or costs lawyers authorised to practice in, or barristers called to the Bar of, England and Wales. The names of the partners and their respective legal qualifications can be inspected at the registered office, viewed on this website or supplied on request.

Regulation of legal services

The Law Society of England and Wales represents solicitors in England and Wales. The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the independent regulatory arm of The Law Society. The Legal Ombudsman is an independent body which adjudicates upon complaints which a law firm’s own complaint handling procedure cannot resolve.

Dransfield Partners is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority as Dransfield Legal Limited (SRA number 8012486). The SRA Standards and Regulations, which contain the rules of professional conduct which apply to solicitors and to law firms, are published on the website of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (www.sra.org.uk).

Regulation of financial services

Sometimes the provision of our legal services may involve regulated activities relating to ‘investments’ within that term’s meaning in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Dransfield Partners is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. We are able however to offer clients a limited range of financial services if they are an incidental part of a legal service we have been engaged to provide because we are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Complaints and redress mechanisms in respect of our financial services are provided through the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Legal Ombudsman.

Dransfield Partners is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. Any financial or market information provided on this website (or in any of our publications) is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, financial advice, or a recommendation to purchase, sell, or otherwise deal in any securities or financial instruments. Dransfield Partnerrs is a law firm regulated in the United Kingdom and does not provide regulated investment or financial services. You should obtain independent financial advice before making any investment or financial decisions. All quoted exchange rates are indicative. We cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of third-party providers.

Client engagement and take-on procedures

No lawyer-client relationship and no contract or agreement between you and this firm is created by your use of this website. The only way to become a client of Dransfield Partners is through a mutual agreement in writing made between this firm and you after we have completed our client and matter take on procedures. Our take on procedures, which are required by law and regulation, may include but are not limited to conflict, identity, background and sanction checks, and the anti-money laundering processes.

If you are interested in becoming a client of this firm, please contact us so that we can determine whether your matter is one with which we can assist you. Please do not provide us with confidential, legally privileged or sensitive information before we have carried out and completed our conflict checks, unless we ask you to do so. This is because if you provide information to us on an unsolicited basis and it is or might be relevant to the matter of a current client of the firm we may be required by law and regulation to disclose it to that client.

Our services and advice are provided to our clients on the basis of the relevant engagement letter and our terms of business. Clients confirm their agreement to the firm’s engagement letter and terms of business by instructing the firm. No responsibility is assumed and no liability is accepted for information that is supplied or for services that are rendered to someone who is not a client of the firm (including someone using this website) unless in writing we have expressly agreed otherwise.

Electronic communications

All electronic communication involves known risks. Such communications might be insecure, intercepted, carry viruses, distort during transmission or arrive late or not at all. Anyone who communicates with us electronically, or who does not expressly prohibit such communication, will be assumed to accept these risks. By using email or fax to communicate with us you consent to us communicating with you and with other parties involved in your matter in the same manner. Unless in writing you expressly prohibit electronic communication, we may use email and/or fax to communicate with you and others involved in your matter. We accept no liability for any inadvertent breach of confidence or privilege, or for any loss or damage, which occurs as a result communication by email or fax.

Email we send to you will not be encrypted unless we inform you otherwise. We take reasonable steps to protect our computer network and systems including by using anti-virus software but we accept no liability for viruses. We expect you to use, and rely on, your own anti-virus software. We recommend that you scan all email and any attachments for viruses before opening them. We also recommend that you confirm any material advice received by email before acting on it.

We monitor electronic communications (including email) in order to protect our business and our clients and to ensure that legal and regulatory obligations and our own internal policies and procedures are being complied with.