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Subject to any variations specifically agreed in writing when accepting your instructions these terms shall apply to all advice given and work undertaken by the directors and staff of Adivis Limited to or for each of our clients (‘you’).
In these terms of business ‘we’ or ‘our’ or ‘us’ or ‘the firm’ refers to Adivis Limited (‘the company’) a company registered in England and Wales with company number 12633225 having its registered office at Suite 242, Unit 3A, 34-35 Hatton Garden London EC1N 8DX. Any business conducted with us is solely with the company and the company has sole legal liability for the work done for you and for any act or omission in the course of that work. No director, principal, employee, associate or consultant of the company will have any personal liability for work undertaken for you. If a director, principal, employee, associate, or consultant signs in his or her own name any letter or other document in the course of carrying out that work it does not mean he or she is assuming any personal legal liability for that letter or document. A list of the directors of the company is available at the above address.
These terms contain a provision in paragraph 5 which limits our liability to £250,000.
Our offices are open between the hours of 09:00am and 6:00pm from Monday to Friday, except public and bank holiday and for certain days around the Christmas and New Year period. Urgent messages outside these hours may be left by email or facsimile transmission.
Fee-earners are available on face to face basis by appointment only.
We will exercise due skill, care and diligence in carrying out legal work in accordance with your instructions. In performing our services, we shall use reasonable care to:
Our normal opening hours are from 9.00am to 5.00pm but individual fee-earners may advise you directly of their availability and how to contact them outside these hours.
4.1. Our responsibilities to you as our client
During the course of our retainer –
4.2. Your responsibilities as a client
Whilst acting for you, you are responsible for:
5.1. Details of our Professional Indemnity Insurance providers
Our Professional Indemnity Insurance is provided by AXA Insurance UK who can be contacted at the following address:
20 Gracechurch Street, London EV3V 0BG
Our policy number is 550.193.483 and covers our activities in England & Wales.
5.2. Limitation of Liability
Our liability to you for a breach of your instructions shall be limited to £10 million, unless we expressly state a higher amount in the client care letter accompanying these terms of business.
We can only limit our liability to the extent the law allows. In particular, we cannot limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
Please ask if you would like us to explain any of the terms above.
5.3. Information which may be disclosed in the Event of a Claim
If the firm has to make a notification under the terms of our professional indemnity policy, information about you and your client matter file may be seen by our insurers. Your client matter file may, therefore, be seen by an assessor or another person unconnected with the firm in the future, unless you notify us that you do not agree to such disclosure being made.
You will be notified in our client care letter at the commencement of each matter that we undertake on your behalf the basis upon which we will charge you. There are three bases of charge which may be referred to in our client care letter.
6.1. Agreed fee
Where appropriate, we will undertake the work required under our retainer with you on an agreed fee basis. This is a fee that cannot be varied either upwards or downwards and is not repayable in the event that you terminate our retainer before the work is completed. In most circumstances, our agreed fee will be subject to VAT at 20%.
In addition to our agreed fee, disbursements or other sums which we pay on your behalf may also be due at the outset of the retainer. If this is the case, the nature of the disbursement and/or other expense will be set out within the client care letter.
6.2. Fixed fee
This will either be a stated fixed amount or will be calculated by reference to a percentage of an ascertainable sum (for instance the sale price of a property). This fee is payable at the conclusion of the matter or on an agreed stage being reached. All conveyancing fixed fees are payable at completion of the transaction and prior to registration formalities unless otherwise agreed.
6.3. Standard basis
Our charge will be calculated by reference to all time spent by individual fee- earners on the matter. This will include meeting you and others where appropriate, considering, preparing and working on papers, correspondence, making and receiving telephone calls, research, internal consultations and travelling. Such time is recorded and charged in six-minute units at the hourly rates applicable to the relevant individual. Where less than six minutes is taken on a matter, a full unit of six minutes will be charged. You will be notified by letter of the rates chargeable by fee-earners dealing with your matter. These rates are exclusive of VAT. Charging rates will be reviewed from time to time and you will be notified of any changes as soon as reasonably possible;
We do not undertake work which is publicly funded. Should it appear to us that any work that you may instruct us to undertake is eligible for public funding, we will advise you of this and the implications thereof.
If you have legal expenses insurance, it is your responsibility to advise us of this fact. Further, you should check whether your household insurance or any other policy provides cover for our fees and notify us if applicable. You may also have cover under a scheme relating to your employment. In all such instances where you advise us that you have cover from a third party, we shall consider the terms of the cover and advise you whether we are prepared to continue our retainer on the basis of third-party cover. You may also have cover in respect of your liability to another party’s costs and you should check any insurance policy you may have for this should you be involved in a contentious matter. Should it be appropriate for you to take out such cover, you will be specifically advised of this.
You are entitled to set an upper limit on the firm’s costs, which may be reached without further authority. Fees in excess of that limit may only be incurred with your specific further authority.
On all matters that are being charged on the standard basis, we will, at least every 6 months, update you as to the current costs position.
Unless you are being charged on a fixed fee or agreed fee basis, any indication of fees is an estimate only (whether stated to be an estimate or quotation). Whilst we endeavour to estimate fees as accurately as possible, the actual fees that are incurred are subject to factors outside our control and you should therefore treat any estimate as a guide only. We cannot guarantee that the final charge will not exceed the estimate.
We will send you a client care letter at the outset of the retainer. This client care letter will specify the scope of work we will undertake on your behalf and the basis of our charges in addition to any other information relevant to your individual matter. The client care letter will specifically incorporate these Terms of Business and you will be asked to sign and return a copy of the engagement terms to confirm your agreement to the terms of our retainer. In the event of you instructing us to take any action or give any advice having received our written engagement terms but not having signed and returned the copy, you will be deemed by instructing us to have accepted our engagement terms and will be bound by them.
Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies, we may have we shall have a general and particular lien (a right to retain documents or other items) over any of your property coming into our possession or under our control as security for all amounts and liabilities of whatever sort due or becoming due to us from you. The lien may be enforced by sale by auction or private treaty of all or any part of your property in our possession.
If for any reason we permit you or any other person to have possession or use of any property subject to the above lien, it shall be held at all time subject to that lien and shall be returned to us immediately upon request.
We will hold any money we receive on your behalf in our general client account. In accordance with the SRA Accounts Rules 2011, we will account to you at the conclusion of your matter for interest due on cleared funds held within our general client bank account at the rate prevailing on the Lloyds Bank plc Business Banking Clients’ Call Account – currently 0.05% per annum. No interest is payable if the amount due to you is less than £20.
We are under an obligation to monitor the risks to money and assets entrusted to us by clients and take steps to address issues identified. As part of this process, we ensure that everyone in the firm keeps their knowledge of the techniques used by criminals and the firm’s risk management policy up to date, to prevent criminals accessing client account details. However, clients also need to be aware of the risks and are responsible for ensuring that your own data and bank account details are kept secure. You should be aware of the dangers of social engineering scams and IT manipulation to steal data. Please be aware that we do not notify changes to important business information, such as our client bank account details, by email.
We are constantly reviewing and upgrading our e-mail technology to ensure that we can communicate with you as effectively as possible by e-mail with the minimum risk of virus infection. However, e-mail carries some inherent risks, namely potential lack of security and lack of authenticity. Further, where sender and recipient use different internet service providers, there can be no guarantee of prompt transmission and incompatibility may also create delivery problems. Notwithstanding these potential problems, the vast majority of e-mail communication is secure and prompt, but we are nevertheless required to advise you of these potential risks. If you request us to communicate by e-mail or send us an e-mail, you will be deemed to have accepted the inherent risks in e-mail communication and we shall have no liability for any losses arising from such risks.
By virtue of this legislation and regulations, we are required to abide by the following procedures:
We are professionally and legally obliged to keep your affairs confidential. However, Adivis may be required by statute to make a disclosure to the National Crime Agency where they know or suspect that a transaction may involve money laundering or terrorist financing. If we make a disclosure in relation to your matter, we may not be able to tell you that a disclosure has been made. We may have to stop working on your matter for a period of time and may not be able to tell you why.
We cannot accept cash receipts in excess of £3,000 for any purpose.
We are not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. However, we are included on the register maintained by the Financial Conduct Authority so that we may carry on insurance mediation activity, which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by the Adivis Regulation Authority. The Register can be accessed at www.fca.org.uk/register
If, while we are acting for you, you need advice on investments, we may have to refer you to someone who is authorised to provide the necessary advice. However, we may provide certain limited investment advice services where these are closely linked to the legal work we are doing for you. This is because we are members of the Law Society of England and Wales. The Law Society is a designated professional body for the purposes of the Financial Services Markets Act 2000. The Adivis Regulation Authority is the independent regulatory arm of the Law Society. The Legal Ombudsman handles complaints independently by virtue of the Legal Services Act 2007. If you are unhappy with any insurance advice you receive from us, you should raise your concerns with either of those bodies.
You agree not to make our work available to third parties without our written permission.
We will at all times keep your business confidential, subject to:
By accepting these terms you consent to disclose in the above circumstances on the basis that the third parties will be required to maintain confidentiality in relation to your files.
In common with many immigration advisers, we sometimes engage other companies or people to provide certain support functions and to provide secretarial, paralegal, clerical or administrative services on our files. We may also refer our files to counsel, an expert or a costs draftsman for specialist advice. We will always seek a confidentiality agreement with these outsourced providers. If you do not want your file to be outsourced, please tell us as soon as possible.
In property transactions, you authorise us to disclose to the other parties to the transaction and, if applicable, other parties in the chain of transactions, all information which we have in relation to your involvement in the transaction, including any related sale or mortgage, financial arrangements and desired dates for exchange and completion. You may withdraw this authority at any time, but if you do so we may be obliged to inform other parties that the authority has been withdrawn.
Where we are also acting for your lender in a transaction, we have a duty to fully reveal to your lender all material facts which will include:
You agree to waiver confidentiality in respect of your name, address and details of unpaid invoices in so far as such waive of confidentiality is necessary to enable the firm to charge its book debts or enter into any factoring agreements or instruct other Adivis to collect any debt.
You may terminate your instructions by writing to us at any time.
The firm is entitled to determine its retainer for good reason, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing we shall be entitled to terminate our retainer if you instruct us to take any course of action which we advise is inappropriate, you decline to accept our advice, we consider that the potential outcome does not justify the expense being incurred or that it is not in your best interests for us to continue to act, or you are in breach of your responsibilities under clause 3.3 above or you make unwarranted complaints about the firm or the level of service or it is evident to us that the necessary mutual trust and confidence no longer subsists.
Further, we may terminate the retainer in the event of any of our accounts being outstanding for more than 30 days. We will give you such notice as is reasonable in the circumstances to determine the retainer, but such notice shall be no longer than 28 days. We shall have no liability to undertake any work or actions on your behalf once the period of notice has terminated. We will release papers relating to your matter once all fees for which you have become liable have been paid by means of cleared funds.
If a bill is not paid within 30 days of the bill date, we reserve the right to charge interest on the total amount payable at the lower of the rate payable for the time being on judgment debts at the rate of 4% from time to time of Lloyds Bank Plc from the bill date until payment in full is made.
We may recover amounts due to us from your money we hold, money received in litigation or otherwise (and whether money is held for the purposes of this matter to which the invoice related on another matter). We will also be entitled to keep all your papers, documents and any other items we hold while there is still money owing to us for our costs and expenses on any matter.
Please note that this firm will not be providing you with advice in relation to any financial or tax matters, unless otherwise mutually agreed. Similarly, we are only able to advise on English Law a, therefore if any foreign law may apply to this matter, we are unable to give advice in relation to such matters and you will need to take advice from a foreign qualified lawyer.
After completing the work we will be entitled to keep your papers whilst there is still money owed to us for fees and expenses. Except those papers that you request to be returned to you, we will retain papers arising from our work for you in storage for six years from the date of the final bill, after which time they may be destroyed by us without reference to you. You should make special arrangements with us to ensure the permanent retention of papers such as deeds and wills. We may make a charge for the production or delivery of any deeds or other papers not connected to continuing instructions and for dealing with any correspondence in respect of papers held in storage.
We will retain all electronic data for at least 6 years after which we will take all reasonable steps to destroy such data unless we are satisfied that there is good reason for retaining it or you instruct us to do so. You may instruct us to retain data at any time. This provision may change without reference to you if there are changes to the relevant legislative or regulatory requirements.
The copyright in all documents prepared by us and our publications and practice notes is and shall remain our property.
Please see our Privacy & Cookie Policy posted on our website.
Under the above regulations, for some instructions, you may have the right to withdraw if our contract to provide you with legal services is concluded prior to meeting you. This right to cancel without charge will subsist for 14 days after the contract was concluded. Notice of cancellation should be sent by email or fax to the person named in our client care letter as being the person responsible for the matter.
Before entering into a formal engagement with you we may obtain a report on your credit status from a regulated credit agency and in those circumstances, we will obtain your consent prior to requesting the report. Once we have entered into an engagement with you, we may seek such a report if we deem it necessary for our business interests. By agreeing to our terms of engagement you consent to us obtaining a report on your credit status should we require to do so.
If we receive requests for information from third parties duly authorised by you (such as accountants requesting information to complete an audit) we will charge on a time basis (subject to the minimum charge below) for researching the information and supplying such information as we are able to provide and there will be a minimum charge of £100 exclusive of VAT.
We may transfer all rights and obligations under any contract with you to any successor to the firm in the context of its business. In the event that such a successor, whether it be a partnership, limited liability partnership, or body corporate takes on the business of Adivis Limited. By continuing to instruct us having been notified of these Terms of Business you agree to the future novation of any contract you have with us in favour of the successor entity.
No person other than a contracting party may enforce any provisions of our engagement by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
The firm and you or other contracting parties may rescind or vary the engagement terms without reference to any third party.
If all or any part of any individual provision of the retainer between us and you is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect then the remainder of the terms of the retainer will remain valid and enforceable.
These terms and our client care letter(s) form the entire agreement between us and you as to the terms of our appointment by you, to the exclusion of all other correspondence and discussion.
This agreement is governed by English Law and by accepting these terms you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Please read this privacy policy notice carefully as it contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use and shares your personal data. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Adivis Limited. Our office and contact details are at the end of this notice. When we use your personal data we are regulated under the Data Protection Act 2018, and effective 25th May 2018 by the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal data for the purposes of the GDPR. We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) under registration number ZA255485 Our use of your personal data is subject to your instructions, the Data Protection Act and GDPR, other relevant UK and EU legislation and our professional duty of confidentiality.
Personal Data we collect about you.
Personal data we always collect
Personal data we may collect depending on why you have instructed us
This personal data is required to enable us to provide our service to you. If you do not provide the personal data we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing services to you.
What do we use your personal information for and why
| What we use the information for | Why |
| To provide legal services to you | To meet our obligations to you |
| To confirm your identity | Regulatory requirements and professional obligation |
| Providing information required by or relating to audits, enquiries or investigations by regulators, professional bodies, lenders, quality schemes, insurers and similar organisations | Regulatory requirements and professional obligation |
| The recording of telephone calls | Security and training purposes |
| To ensure compliance with our own policies and procedures | To ensure the quality of the service we provide |
| Statistical analysis to help us manage our practice | To ensure the quality of the service we provide |
| Updating client records | To ensure the quality of the service we provide |
| Marketing our services to existing and previous clients and to non-clients who have previously expressed an interest in our services | To promote our services |
The above table does not apply to special category personal data, which we will only process with your explicit consent (or other specific authority such as Order of the Court). Special category personal data is defined by GDPR as information relating to race, ethnic origin, politics, religion, trade union membership, criminal convictions, genetics, biometrics (where used for ID purposes), health, sex life or sexual orientation.
We routinely share personal data with:
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.
We may also
Where your personal data is held
Information will be held at our offices (see below). Data is also held by our IT provider at premises within the United Kingdom. We do not intend that any of your personal information held by us will be either held or transferred outside of the EU.
How long your personal data will be kept
We will keep your personal data after we have finished acting for you. We will do so for one of these reasons:
We will retain records for
We will not retain your data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Thereafter information in both paper and electronic form will be deleted or destroyed save that we may retain for a longer period basic information (name, address and matter) which is necessary for identifying potential conflicts.
Your rights
You have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge:
Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is designed to address;
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, we would refer you to the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
Email, call or write to our Practice Manager — see below: ‘How to contact us
How to complain
If you are unhappy about the data we hold, how we use it or about this policy then please contact us with your concerns. We hope that we can resolve any concerns you raise.The GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy was published on 06 Sep 2022.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time when we do then, if you are still a current client of the firm, we will inform you via our usual means of written communication with you. We will also publish the updated policy on our website, www.adivisenterprises.com
How to contact us
Please contact our Data Protection Officer by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
Data Protection Officer: M Riaz Anwar
By post:
Adivis
Suite 242, Unit 3A, 34-35 Hatton Garden Holborn London EC1N 8DX
By e-mail: info@adivisenterprises.com By phone: 0208 638 5532
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Adivis is the trading name of Adivis Ltd company registered in England and Wales with company number: 12633225. This firm is regulated by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner.
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