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Terms of Use.

Company Plus Legal, registered in England & Wales (Company No: 17138749)
Registered Address 20 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, England
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About these terms

These terms tell you the rules for using our website at pluslegal.co.uk (our site). By using our site you accept these terms and you agree to comply with the terms. If you do not agree with these terms, do not use our site.

These terms apply to your use of our site only. If we act for you, our engagement letter and our terms of business govern that work. Where our engagement documents differ from these terms, the engagement documents prevail in relation to the work.

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Who we are

Plus Legal Limited operates our site. In these terms Plus Legal Limited is referred to as we, us and our.

Plus Legal Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17138749. The registered office is at 20 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, England. Plus Legal Limited is not registered for VAT.

You can contact us by email at hello@pluslegal.co.uk or by telephone on +44 20 3740 1254.

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Our regulatory position

Plus Legal Limited is not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Peter Lumley-Savile is.

Peter Lumley-Savile is a solicitor of England and Wales, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under SRA number 296345. The SRA Principles and the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors apply to Peter Lumley-Savile personally in relation to all work carried out through Plus Legal Limited. You can check the register at sra.org.uk.

Because Plus Legal Limited is not an authorised body, we do not carry out reserved legal activities as defined in section 12 of the Legal Services Act 2007. We do not hold client money and we do not operate a client account.

What that means for you

Clients of a business that the Solicitors Regulation Authority does not regulate do not have the same protections as clients of an authorised firm. In particular you have no access to the SRA Compensation Fund. Our engagement letter explains this in full before you instruct us.

Complaints

If you are a client and you are unhappy with our service, email Peter Lumley-Savile at hello@pluslegal.co.uk. Our engagement letter sets out the complaints procedure and any right you have to take a complaint further.

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We do not give legal advice on this site

The content on our site is general information. The content is not advice on which you should rely and the content does not amount to legal advice.

Nothing on our site creates a solicitor and client relationship between you and us. We act for you only once we send you an engagement letter and you accept the engagement letter.

The law changes. We publish content as at the date shown on the content and we do not undertake to update the content afterwards. Take specific advice before you act, or decide not to act, on anything you read on our site.

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Contacting us through our site

Do not send us confidential or sensitive information before we confirm in writing that we act for you. We cannot promise to keep unsolicited information confidential. We may already act for another party whose interests are adverse to yours.

We run a conflict of interest check before we accept any instruction. Sending us an enquiry does not create a retainer. Sending us an enquiry does not stop time running under any limitation period.

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Fraud and email security

We will never send you new or changed bank details by email.

If you receive an email that appears to come from us and that asks you to send money to a new account, do not act on the email. Telephone us on +44 20 3740 1254 first, using the number published on this site rather than any number in the email.

Email is not a secure medium. We are not liable for loss caused by the interception, alteration or misuse of an email by a third party, except where the law does not allow us to exclude that liability.

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Changes to these terms and to our site

We may change these terms at any time. The version published on this page applies each time you use our site. Check the version date at the top of this page.

We may update our site to reflect changes to our services, to the needs of our users and to our business priorities.

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Accessing our site

Our site is free to use. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on our site, is always available or uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or any part of our site for business or operational reasons. We aim to give reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are responsible for arranging your own access to our site. You are also responsible for making sure that everyone who accesses our site through your internet connection knows these terms and complies with the terms.

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Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to use our site. If you have difficulty with any part of our site, email hello@pluslegal.co.uk and tell us what you need. We will provide the content in another format on request.

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Privacy and cookies

We process personal data in accordance with our privacy policy. The privacy policy also explains the cookies we use and how you control the cookies.

Where you submit information through our site, you confirm that the information is accurate.

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Intellectual property rights

We own or license all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on our site. Copyright laws and treaties around the world protect those works. All rights are reserved.

Plus Legal, the Plus Legal logo and “The law, but more.” are our trade marks. Do not use any of them without our written permission.

You may print one copy of any page and download extracts of any page for your own personal use. You may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content published on our site. Do not modify any copy you take. Do not use any illustration, photograph, video or graphic separately from the text that accompanies it. Always acknowledge us as the author of the content.

Do not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without a licence from us.

If you breach these terms, your right to use our site ends immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copy of the content you have made.

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Text and data mining, artificial intelligence and automated access

We reserve our rights in relation to text and data mining, web scraping and machine learning.

This section is an express reservation of rights for the purposes of section 29A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and of any equivalent provision in any other jurisdiction, including Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790. This reservation applies to all content on our site.

You must not do any of the following without our written permission:

  • carry out text or data mining in relation to our site or any content on our site;
  • scrape, crawl, harvest or otherwise extract content from our site by automated means, save that a general purpose search engine may index our site in accordance with the directions in our robots.txt file;
  • use any content from our site to train, fine tune, ground, benchmark or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence or machine learning model or system;
  • include any content from our site in a dataset, index, vector store or retrieval system that serves an artificial intelligence model or system; or
  • use any bot, agent or other software to access our site in a way that places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

This section applies to you whether you act for yourself or you operate an automated agent on behalf of another person. The person who operates or instructs an automated agent is responsible for the compliance of that agent with these terms.

We are not responsible for any summary, answer or other output that an artificial intelligence system produces about us or about our content. Output of that kind is not our content, it is not checked by us and you must not rely on it.

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Acceptable use

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You must not:

  • breach any applicable law or regulation in relation to your use of our site;
  • use our site in any way that is fraudulent or that has a fraudulent purpose or effect;
  • send us any material that is defamatory, obscene, offensive, deceptive, threatening or in breach of the rights of any other person;
  • impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person;
  • transmit unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material; or
  • copy the structure, design or content of our site for use in a competing service.

Any material you send to us must be accurate as to facts. Any opinion you state must be genuinely held.

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Viruses and interference

We do not guarantee that our site is secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your own technology to access our site. Use your own virus protection software.

You must not knowingly introduce any virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb or other malicious or technologically harmful material to our site. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, to the server on which our site is stored or to any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site by way of a denial of service attack or a distributed denial of service attack.

A breach of this section is a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. Your right to use our site ends immediately on any breach of this section.

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Interactive features and user content

Our site does not host comments, forums or any other content published by users. Do not attempt to upload content to our site.

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Linking to our site

You may link to our home page provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and that does not damage our reputation or take advantage of our reputation.

Do not establish a link in any way that suggests an association with us, or approval or endorsement by us, where none exists. Do not frame our site on any other site. Do not link to our site from any site that you do not own.

We may withdraw permission to link at any time and without notice.

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Our responsibility for loss or damage

We do not exclude or limit our liability to you in any way where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or to any content on our site.
  • We are not liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, that arises under or in connection with your use of our site, your inability to use our site or your use of or reliance on any content on our site.
  • In particular we are not liable for loss of profits, loss of sales, business or revenue, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill or reputation or any indirect or consequential loss.
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Suspension and ending your access

We may suspend or end your right to use our site immediately if you breach these terms in a material way. Suspending or ending your right to use our site does not affect any other right or remedy that you or we may have.

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General

Each section of these terms operates separately. If any court or authority decides that any section is unlawful, the remaining sections stay in full force.

If we delay in enforcing any part of these terms against you, that delay is not a waiver of our rights.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will tell you in writing if we do so.

These terms are between you and us. No other person has a right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any part of these terms.

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Governing law and jurisdiction

The law of England and Wales governs these terms, the subject matter of these terms and the formation of these terms.

You and we agree that the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with these terms.

Plus Legal Limited · Company number 17138749 · 20 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, England
hello@pluslegal.co.uk · +44 20 3740 1254