General legal notices

Duan & Duan UK LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales with registered number OC427307. It is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA ID Number: 659252).

A list of LLP members is available for inspection at the LLP’s registered address: 15 Stratton Road, Mayfair London, W1J 8LT, United Kingdom.

Duan & Duan UK LLP is a limited liability partnership which is a body corporate and which has “members” and not “partners”. However, our members prefer to use the title of “partner” in our dealings with our clients and accordingly, when we refer to a person being a “partner” this means the person who is a member of Duan & Duan UK LLP. No reference to a “partner” is to imply that any person is carrying on business in partnership for the purposes of the Partnership Act 1890.

The contract under which our services are provided to you is with Duan & Duan UK LLP and not with an individual Partner, employee or agent of Duan & Duan UK LLP.

Advice is given and services are supplied by Duan & Duan UK LLP (“we”, “us”, “our”) on the basis of our Terms of Business. All clients of Duan & Duan UK LLP agree to these terms and conditions, subject to any amendments which we have expressly agreed. No liability is accepted or responsibility assumed for advice given or services supplied to persons who are not expressly clients of Duan & Duan UK LLP.

We have set out below some additional information which we are obliged to provide to clients (as provided for in our standard Terms of Business). If you are a client and would like to receive the current Terms of Business and/or any other information in hard copy, please do contact us.

Duan & Duan UK LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (“SRA”). The SRA Handbook 2011 sets out our professional and ethical rules and obligations (including the SRA Code of Conduct and SRA Accounts Rules), and can be viewed at www.sra.org.uk.

One of our Partners is a Barrister, who has been called to the Bar of England & Wales and is also regulated by the Bar Standards Board (“BSB”). The BSB Handbook 2014 (including the BSB Code of Conduct) sets out further relevant professional and ethical rules and obligations in relation to this individual, which can be viewed at www.barstandardsboard.org.uk.

We maintain professional indemnity insurance as required by the SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules and will provide details of this upon request. Our insurance covers the professional services provided by Duan & Duan UK LLP.

Duan & Duan UK LLP is registered for Value Added Tax purposes with VAT number: 327 9504 83.

If you have instructed Jackson Lyon LLP as an individual to act for you in your personal capacity (not in any business or professional capacity), under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, you have a fourteen day cooling-off period during which you may decide to cancel your contract with us. If you expect us to provide advice and services during that fourteen day period but also wish to cancel your contract during that period, you agree that you will be liable for any fees or expenses chargeable for legal advice and services incurred up to and including the date of cancellation.

Pursuant to the SRA Accounts Rules, Jackson Lyon LLP’s policy is to account to our clients for a sum in lieu of interest on a fair and reasonable basis. If the total amount of interest calculated over the course of a matter is less than £20, no payment in lieu of interest will be paid. Client monies will be deposited in a general client account (an instant access account in which amounts for different clients are pooled) unless we are instructed to create a separate designated account. In any event, it is unlikely that a client will receive as much interest as might have been obtained had the funds been invested by the client itself.

Jackson Lyon LLP complies with its obligations under the SRA Handbook 2011 to collect, store and report on equality and diversity data relating to its staff and others at the Firm. If you wish to receive a copy of our anonymised Equality and Diversity information, please contact info@jacksonlyon.com.

The following are Duan & Duan UK LLP’s (“we”, “us”, “our”) Website Terms and Conditions.

As the person accessing our websites (“you”, “your”) your use of Duan & Duan UK LLP’s website and/or your provision of personal information to us constitutes your acceptance of all provisions within these Website Terms and Conditions, and our associated Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, each of which are set out on our website.

We may need to revise these Terms and Conditions, and related policies, in future. You should therefore review this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes.

The contents of our websites, including all information and materials appearing within webpages, are of a general, informational nature. We have used reasonable endeavours to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the contents but the information does not constitute legal or professional advice and must not be relied on as such.

The mere use of our website does not create a client/lawyer relationship between you and Duan & Duan UK LLP. If you require specific legal advice or representation, please contact us in order to establish a retainer.

To the extent permitted by law, Duan & Duan UK LLP does not accept responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information contained in our website pages. Duan & Duan UK LLP will not be liable for any incidental, special or consequential damages, including damages for loss of business or other profits arising in relation to the information on our website. To the same extent, Duan & Duan UK LLP also disclaims any liability for and does not accept responsibility for the material of any website referred to or accessed through our website.

You may only access and download the contents of the pages on our website, the copyright in which belongs to Duan & Duan UK LLP unless otherwise stated, on a temporary basis and for the sole purpose of viewing such information. You may not permanently republish, copy or reproduce any part of the contents of the pages on our websites without our prior written permission and in any event you must expressly and clearly identify and credit Duan & Duan UK LLP as the source of such content. Similarly, if you intend to hyperlink to any part of our website, you must first obtain our prior consent in writing.