Our Privacy Policy

We may collect information that you choose to provide in communications with us. Please do not send us confidential information until we have confirmed in writing that we represent or act for you or your company or organisation. Unsolicited emails from non-clients do not establish a lawyer-client relationship. They may not be privileged and, therefore, may be disclosed to others.

We will collect the following personal data:

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• Contact information including your name, position, role, company or organisation, telephone (including mobile phone number where provided) as well as email and postal address;

• Business information including data identifying you in relation to matters on which you instruct us or in which you are involved;

• Information in connection with investigations or proceedings including criminal record data: where this is necessary to conduct the investigation or proceedings;

• Social media including posts, likes and other interactions with our social media presence;

• Technological information such as when you access this website and our technology services being IP address, browser type and version (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc.), time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system you are using (e.g. Vista, Windows XP, MacOS, etc), device type, hardware model, MAC address, unique identifiers and mobile network information];

We will use your personal information for one or more of the following purposes 

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• to provide professional services:

  • as attorneys-at-law, including the provision of legal advice and representation in courts, mediations, tribunals and other forms of dispute resolution procedures

  • as consultants (in the areas law, graphic design and photography) this includes managing our business relationship with you, your company or organisation including keeping records about business contacts, services and payments so we can customise our offering for you and develop our relationship

• to check for conflicts of interest in relation to any of the professional services referred to above;

• to carry out anti-money laundering and terrorist financing checks;

• to obtain and administer professional indemnity insurance;

• to carry out office administration and keep accounting records;

• to take or defend legal or regulatory proceedings or to exercise a lien;

• to respond to potential complaints or to make complaints;

• to assist and instruct legal personnel as it relates to your matters;

• to publish legal articles, journals  and books;

• to check the website and our other technology services are being used efficiently;

• to protect our information assets and technology platforms from unauthorised access or usage and to monitor for malware and other security threats;

• as required or permitted by law;

We generally keep your information as needed to provide our legal services and to deal with claims. This will depend on a number of factors such as whether you or your company or organisation is an existing client. We will retain your information as necessary to comply with legal, accounting or regulatory requirements. At that point any further retention will be reviewed and the data will be marked for deletion or marked for retention for a further period. Deletion will be carried out (without further notice to you) as soon as reasonably practicable after the data is marked for deletion.