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Terms and Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to our website, (the “Website”). The Website is provided by Lewis Silkin LLP whose registered office is Arbor, 255 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 9AX, United Kingdom (“Lewis Silkin”, “us”, “we” or “our” for short) for the benefit of itself and all Lewis Silkin member firms. Lewis Silkin is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC317120. A list of members is open for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Lewis Silkin LLP is to a member of Lewis Silkin LLP, or to an employee or consultant with equivalent qualifications and standing. “you” and “your” means you as the user of our Website.

For users in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland or Hong Kong please visit the Our Offices page for details of the local office of Lewis Silkin. For regulatory information applicable to each Lewis Silkin office please visit our Legal and Regulatory Information page.

We have set out below the terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) under which we are providing you with access to our Website. These include the terms and conditions that govern:

  • your use of the Website
  • your rights to link to the Website
  • our use of cookies on the Website (see our separate “Cookie Settings”)
  • how we will use and protect information about you (see our separate “Privacy Policy”)
  • our liability

Use of our Website

By accessing the Website, you agree to the Terms and Conditions.

You should read all the Terms and Conditions prior to using the Website. You should also save and/or print out a copy of these Terms and Conditions for future reference.

We may change our Terms and Conditions from time to time and your continued use of the Website shall be your acceptance of such change.

You are not permitted to use, or cause others to use, any automated system or software to extract content or data from our Website for commercial purposes.

If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you should not use the Website.

Website Availability

Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis. We update our Website regularly and so may change the content at any time without notice to you. We reserve the right to withdraw, vary or suspend the service at any time without notice.

Uploading material to our Website

Any material you upload to our Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and unless otherwise agreed in writing between us, we have the perpetual right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material in whole or in part for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. You waive any moral rights in respect of any material you upload to our Website.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our Website.

We may at any time remove any material or posting you make on our Website and in particular if, in our sole opinion, it does not comply with the content standards below.

Content standards

Any material which you contribute to our Website must comply with the spirit of the following content standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Your contributions must:

  • be accurate (where they state facts)
  • be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • comply with applicable law in the UK, the US and in any country from which they are posted

Your contributions must not:

  • contain any material which is defamatory of any person
  • contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory
  • contain sexually explicit material
  • harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way
  • promote violence
  • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
  • infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or other proprietary right of any other person
  • be likely to deceive any person
  • be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence
  • promote any illegal or immoral activity
  • be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
  • be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person
  • be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person
  • give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case
  • advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse

This list only serves to provide examples and is not meant to be an exhaustive list of the types of unacceptable uses that may result in the restriction, suspension or termination of your use of our Website.

Reliance on Website Content

The Website tells you about our firm and includes comment on legal and commercial developments written by members of our specialist teams. The comments are written to raise the profile of some of the legal and regulatory issues.

Accordingly, our Website is not intended as a source of advice and should not be relied upon as such. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such information to the fullest extent permissible by law.

Reliance should only ever be placed on advice that is given in relation to specific client instructions: to find out more about becoming a client of Lewis Silkin please use the e-mail links on the "Contact Us" pages.

Our lawyers will be pleased to tell you more.

Intellectual property

You may access, view and print out one copy of this Website and all information, images, and other content displayed on the Website ("Materials") strictly in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

You may only view, print out, use, quote from and cite the Website and the Materials for your own personal, non-commercial use and on the condition that you give appropriate acknowledgement where appropriate to Lewis Silkin. All intellectual property rights in and to the Website and the Materials are either owned by or licensed to us and your use of the Website and Materials is subject to the following restrictions.

You must not:

  • remove any copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the Materials;
  • use any Materials from the Website in any manner that may infringe any copyright, intellectual property right or proprietary right of us or any third parties; or
  • reproduce, modify, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, frame, communicate to the public or circulate to any third party or exploit this Website and/or the Materials for any commercial purpose, without our prior written consent.

Trade marks

We expressly reserve all rights in and to www.lewissilkin.com and any other associated Lewis Silkin owned sites and/or domain names, and sub-domains, the name "Lewis Silkin", Lewis Silkin logos, service marks, trading names and/or trade marks. Third party domains, logos, marks, products and company names mentioned on the Website are reserved to their respective owners or licensors.

Linking to our Website

You may link to any page of the Website, for non-commercial purposes provided that you do so in a way that is fair and legal and which does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. For the avoidance of doubt, the linking site must not contain any adult or illegal material or any material that is offensive, harassing or otherwise objectionable.

You must not link to our Website in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not remove or obscure by framing or otherwise, advertisements, any copyright notice, or other information published on the Website. Our Website must not be framed on any other site.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission at any time and without notice.

Privacy, your personal data and cookies

The privacy of your personal data is important to us. We collect information from you at various places on the Website, for example when you submit a Contact Us form. Please see our Privacy Policy for details of how we will process your personal data.

For details about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Settings.

Third party sites

Our Website and/or the Materials may contain links to third party websites for example LinkedIn, Facebook and X. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies including in relation to privacy. Please read those rules and policies before proceeding.

If you decide to visit a third party site, you do so at your own risk. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites. Links do not imply that we are, or our Website is, affiliated to or associated with such sites.

The inclusion of any link in our communications with you does not imply endorsement by us of the linked site. If you decide to access linked third party websites, you do so at your own risk.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another website, these Terms and Conditions including our Privacy Policy and Cookie Settings are no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which are linked to ours is subject to that website’s own rules and policies.

Objectionable Content

If you find any content on the Website to be in any way offensive, obscene, defamatory, racist, harmful, inaccurate, unlawful, illegal or deceptive in any way, please notify us by emailing us at info@lewissilkin.com using the subject heading “Objectionable Content”.

On receipt of your complaint, we may remove or block access to the content complained of.

Our liability

As described in Reliance on information, nothing on our Website constitutes legal or professional advice given by Lewis Silkin, any Lewis Silkin member firm or any third party.

To the fullest extent permissible by law, we exclude and disclaim all warranties, terms, conditions and representations that might otherwise be implied by law in relation to your use of this Website. We do not represent or warrant that the Website will be error-free, free of viruses or other harmful components, or that defects will be corrected. You must take your own precautions in this respect.

We do not accept liability for any failure to maintain the Website.

We shall not be liable, under these Terms and Conditions for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

The Materials may contain inaccuracies and typographical errors. We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the Materials.

Accordingly, and to the fullest extent permissible by law, we exclude all liability howsoever arising from your use of our Website.

Legal compliance and applicable law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and any matter or dispute arising in connection with them shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

You are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws relating to the use of or otherwise connected with the Website. To the extent that the Website or any activity contemplated by it would infringe any law of a jurisdiction other than England, then you are prohibited from accessing or using the Website or attempting to carry on any such offending activity and this provision shall override all other provisions of these Terms.

Contact us

If you have any concerns or queries about material which appears on our Website or if you have questions about your use of this Website or these Terms and Conditions please email us info@lewissilkin.com.

If you have any suggestions for improvements or additions that you would like to see on the Website please email us info@lewissilkin.com. Our postal address for correspondence is Arbor, 255 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 9AX, United Kingdom.