Legal Information

The Law Society represents solicitors in England and Wales. The Law Society is also a designated professional body for the purpose of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the independent regulatory arm of The Law Society. The Legal Ombudsman is an independent body set up to adjudicate upon complaints which cannot be resolved within a firm’s complaints handling procedure.

IEC SOLICITORS is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The SRA Handbook (which contains the rules of professional conduct which apply to solicitors including the SRA Code of Conduct and SRA Accounts Rules) can be viewed on the website of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (www.sra.org.uk).

• When you access this website, your computer’s browser provides us with electronic information such as your IP address, browser type and access time. This information is collected and used to compile statistical data on the use of the website. We use this information to help us improve the website and the services we offer.
• Any personal data collected during your use of this website will be processed in accordance with current United Kingdom data protection laws and for one or more of the purposes described in the paragraph below.
• Personal data submitted on this website will be used: for the purpose specified in the relevant part of the website; to enable us to supply you with information or assistance that you request; to enable us to provide you with information about us, our services and our events; and for any other purpose for which you give your consent. If at any time you wish to have your name removed from our database, please email: info@iecsolicitors.co.uk.

• The United Kingdom’s anti-money laundering legislation and related regulations issued by The Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority require us to take steps to verify and document: (1) the identity and address of all clients of the firm (including the beneficial owner or effective controller of a company or trust); and (2) the source of monies paid to the firm. Sometimes we are able to verify and document the identity of a client through electronic data sources. If this is not possible, we will ask the client to provide us with the identification documents we are required to obtain. From time to time, or if their circumstances change, we may ask a client to provide up to date evidence of identity. If we are unable to obtain satisfactory evidence of identity, we will not be able to act or continue acting. We cannot accept funds from any source unless the source has previously been identified to our satisfaction. If payment is made in breach of this provision, normally the funds will be frozen until their source and provenance has been established.
  The legislation governing money laundering and the financing of terrorism has placed professional advisers (including lawyers) under a
• legal duty in certain circumstances to disclose information to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Where a lawyer knows or suspects that a transaction involves money laundering or the financing of terrorists, he or she may be required to report their knowledge or suspicion to SOCA. If this happens, we will not be able to inform you that a disclosure has been made or of the reason for it, for legal reasons. We accept no liability for any loss, damage, costs or expenses that you might incur by reason of such disclosure.

• Cybercrime is on the increase. You should be alive to the possibility that a criminal might deliberately misrepresent himself or herself as a member of, or as someone acting on behalf of or working with, IEC SOLICITORS, in order to carry out a fraud. Such scams normally originate by email. Often it will either promise the recipient a share of a large sum of money in return for paying a modest sum up front or request information about the recipient’s bank account in order that money can be paid to them. Sometimes the email will direct the recipient to a false website that intentionally replicates the look of a legitimate website.
• If you receive an email purporting to come from IEC SOLICITORS, or if you are directed to a website that purports to be IEC SOLICITORS’s website, and you have any doubts at all about the provenance of the email or website, please either email info@iecsolicitors.co.uk or contact us by telephone before you take any action and we will tell you whether the email came from us or whether it is our website.

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