Terms and Conditions of Business
25 Canada Square Chambers ("Chambers") is a trading style of LPC Law Ltd. LPC Law Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) under SRA No. 541619.
Chambers is an association, as defined in the Bar Standards Board (BSB) Handbook Part 6. The 'BSB authorised persons' are the barristers at Chambers. They are a collection of self-employed individuals who work in association with Chambers, in accordance with the BSB Handbook Part 2 (Rules rC79-rC85) pursuant to a Service Level Agreement with Chambers and/or a written contract for services for a determinate period. Each barrister is registered with, and regulated by, the BSB of England and Wales. Those who have extant Service Legal Agreements with Chambers provide legal services in accordance with the BSB Handbook Part 3 (Rules rS24-rS25.) Those who have written contracts for services for a determinate period are 'employed barristers (authorised non-BSB body)' as defined in the BSB Handbook Part 6; they provide legal services in accordance with the BSB Handbook Part 3 (Rules rS35 -rS37)
The 'persons other than a BSB regulated person' who also use the common vehicle for obtaining or distributing work are the solicitor-advocates at Chambers, as well as the solicitors firm, LPC Law. All solicitor-advocates are self-employed and are registered with, and regulated by, the SRA. The Legal Services Act 2007 does not require the association to be authorised as an entity.
Chambers' Company Number is 2955453, registered in England - full registered office address: Commercial Unit 14, Adagio Point, 36 Creek Road, London, England SE8 3FN. On correspondence, and for the purpose of postage, this is abbreviated to 36 Creek Road, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, SE8 3FN.
DISCLAIMER
This website is produced by 25 Canada Square Chambers, a trading style of LPC Law Ltd. Chambers has no discrete collective legal identity of any kind; all barristers and solicitor-advocates practising are self-employed individuals who are independent contractors. By agreement of the barristers and solicitor-advocates in these Chambers, this website has been prepared for information purposes only. Any views outlined in an article, any commentary or any case note on this website are not necessarily the opinions of any other individual within the association, other than the author.
The information as well as any comment regarding the law contained on this website is provided without charge and is disseminated for information purposes only. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the information and the commentary is accurate and up-to-date as at the date of publication. However, no responsibility for the accuracy and correctness of any information published on this website, or for any consequences of relying on it, is assumed by Chambers or any individual within the Chambers association. The text on this website and the comment on the law does not, and in no way is it intended to, amount to legal advice to any person on a specific case or matter. Every reader of this website is strongly advised to obtain specific, personal advice from a lawyer about their case or their legal matter; they are strongly advised not to rely on any of the information or articles on this site.
PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
All self-employed barristers - as defined by the BSB Handbook Part 6 - who are practising in association with Chambers maintain professional liability insurance provided by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund, managed by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund Limited, 90 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4ST. Coverage is subject to the terms of cover of the Bar Mutual.
All employed barristers (authorised non-BSB body) - as defined by the BSB Handbook Part 6 - who are practising under written contracts for services are covered by Chambers' professional indemnity insurance.
Complaints
25 Canada Square Chambers is committed to providing the highest quality of service to our clients. If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of the service provided, please let us know. A copy of our complaints procedure (as SRA regulated entity LPC Law Ltd) can be viewed here. You can also raise your concerns with the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
In addition, any sole-practitioner barrister that you instruct via 25 Canada Square Chambers will have their own complaints policy, which is available on request.
Terms and Conditions for use of the 25 Canada Square Chambers website.
For use of the 25 Canada Square Chamber's website - ATTENTION:
These terms and conditions apply to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.25canadasquarechambers.co.uk, (“Website”) and to any correspondence by e-mail between 25 Canada Square Chambers a trading style of LPC Law Ltd of 36 Creek Road, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, SE8 3FN (“25CSC”) and you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to contact 25CSC or are one of our clients. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, do not use this Website.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 You may access some areas of this Website and contact 25CSC regardless of whether you are a client of 25CSC. However, certain areas of this Website are only open to you if you are a client of 25CSC and have logged in.
1.2 25CSC may revise these terms and conditions and any additional terms and conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current terms and conditions because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms and conditions may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of this Website.
2. LICENCE
2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:
2.1.1 no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
2.1.2 no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
2.1.3 no downloaded extracts from this Website are passed or transferred to third parties, and
2.1.4 25CSC's copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright, trademarks, logos and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation any photographs and graphical images) are owned by 25CSC or its licensors. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in these terms and conditions, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.
2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without 25CSC's prior written permission.
2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms and conditions are reserved.
3. SERVICE ACCESS
3.1 While 25CSC endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, 25CSC shall not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond 25CSC's control.
4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT
4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Statement, any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. 25CSC shall have no obligation with respect to such material. 25CSC and its designers shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:
4.2.1 that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
4.2.2 for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
4.2.3 which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
4.2.4 which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
4.4 25CSC shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing 25CSC to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.
5. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
5.1 25CSC may from time to time establish relationships with other organisations that will enable you to access their websites directly from the Website. Each such link is provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you do so at your own risk and you leave the Website. Each such organisation should operate its own policy regarding the sale or other disposal of personal data and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest in, or concerns regarding, the way your data will be used then you are advised to read the Privacy Statement and other policies on any website you may have accessed in this way.
5.2 25CSC will try to provide you with links to good quality, reputable websites which we believe will be of interest and relevant to you. Please note that 25CSC has not reviewed all of these third party websites and they are not under 25CSC's control. 25CSC is not responsible for and does not contribute to the content of such websites. When you click through to any of these websites you leave the area controlled by 25CSC. 25CSC does not endorse or make representations, whether as to quality, propriety or otherwise, about such websites, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained by using them, nor does it accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with the third party's use of your data, the website content or the services offered to you by these websites.
6. DISCLAIMER
6.1 This Website is provided free of charge and without warranties or guarantees. While 25CSC endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, 25CSC does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. Information on this website is only intended for general guidance and does not constitute legal advice. Information contained on this Website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical mistakes. 25CSC may update or make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products, services and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and 25CSC makes no commitment to update such material.
6.2 The material on this Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind either express or implied. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, 25CSC provides you with this Website on the basis that 25CSC excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions as to non-infringement, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.
6.3 You accept the risk that data transmitted electronically to 25CSC via this Website or otherwise may be intercepted before reaching 25CSC or accessed from 25CSC's data storage means by third parties unauthorised by 25CSC and may be exploited unlawfully by the said unauthorised third parties. 25CSC does not assume responsibility for guarding against the acts of the said unauthorised third parties.
7. LIABILITY
7.1 25CSC, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of 25CSC associates or affiliates and the officers, directors, employees, partners, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other destructive items that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
7.2 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit 25CSC liability for:
7.2.1 death or personal injury caused by 25CSC negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
7.2.2 fraud; or
7.2.3 any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
8. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
25CSC is a registered company. A list of the names of the directors is open to inspection at Companies House.
A copy of our Privacy Notice is available here. A copy of our Recruitment Privacy Notice is available here.
Accessibility
If you would like any information on our website provided in a different format (e.g. large print, Braille or audio recording) please contact our Clerks on 0207 889 2525 or email clerks@25cschambers.co.uk.