Terms and Conditions
McCarthy Solicitors Ltd (the ‘Firm’). Registered Office: 5 Chancery Lane, London, EC4A 1BL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 14300891 and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under number 8002190.
Please read the below terms of use (the ‘Terms) carefully as they affect your legal rights and govern your use of this website www.mccarthy.co.uk (including any sub-domains) (the ‘Website’).
The Website is owned and operated by the Firm.
Your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions is deemed to be accepted upon your use of the Website. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, you should stop using the Website immediately.
References on the Website to ‘McCarthy Solicitors’, ‘the Firm’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ mean the Firm.
A list of our Director(s) name(s) may be inspected at our registered office.
The legal information on the Website should, for clients of the Firm, be read in association with our client care letter and terms of business which take precedence over any legal notice on the Website in the event that they differ from one another.
These Terms were last reviewed in January 2023, however, the Firm reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any part of the Website or the Terms.
Any information on the Website is for information only. Nothing should be construed as being legal advice or relied upon as such or perceived as creating a solicitor-client relationship. Users of the Website should be aware that the information may have become out of date and we give no warranty or make any representation regarding the fitness for purpose, continued availability, quality, accuracy or completeness of the content of the Website.
The Firm excludes all liability for any kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party in connection with the use, inability to use, or the results of use of the Website.
You may not set up links from your own websites to the Website without our prior written consent.
All intellectual property rights of this Website belong to the Firm. © Copyright All rights are reserved.
You may not copy, store or redistribute the contents of the Website in any way.
We maintain compulsory professional indemnity insurance with Travelers Insurance Company Limited and whose registered office is One Creechurch Place, Creechurch Lane, London, EC3A 5AF. This policy provides civil liability cover for claims of errors or omission arising from professional advice or services related to English & Wales law and given by McCarthy Solicitors Ltd.
If you would like to make a formal complaint, address your complaint to Mr Dion McCarthy dion@mccarthy.co.uk or 195a Barrack Road, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 2AR. We will acknowledge your complaint and may seek clarification – within 7 working days. We will then fully investigate your complaint and provide a response – within 14 working days thereafter.
The Legal Ombudsman can help you if we are unable to resolve your complaint ourselves. They will look at your complaint independently and it will not affect how we handle your case. Before accepting a complaint for investigation, the Legal Ombudsman will check that you have tried to resolve your complaint with us first. If you have, then you must take your complaint to the Legal Ombudsman: Within six months of receiving a final response to your complaint, and, No more than six years from the date of act/omission; or No more than three years from when you should reasonably have known there was cause for complaint. If you would like more information about the Legal Ombudsman, please contact them: www.legalombudsman.org.uk, 0300 555 0333, enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk, Legal Ombudsman PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority can help if you are concerned about our behaviour. This could be for things like dishonesty, taking or losing your money or treating you unfairly because of your age, a disability or other characteristic. Visit their website to see how you can raise your concerns with the Solicitors Regulation Authority www.sra.org.uk.
This legal notice and all issues regarding the Website are governed by English law. Access is granted on condition that you accept all of the above and agree to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales to settle matters in relation to the Website.
All information contained in any message, email or attachments is intended solely for the addressee. It is confidential and may also be legally privileged. If you have received any message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of any message and/or any attachment is strictly prohibited.
It is your responsibility to have virus protection and do not accept any liability for any viruses on this Website. You should scan for viruses and also check any emails and any attachments for viruses. The Firm does not guarantee the security of any message or any attachments and will not be responsible for any damages arising as a result of any virus being passed on or arising from any alteration of any message by a third party.
If you have any problems with the Website, please contact us by sending an email to dion@mccarthy.co.uk