Legal Information

Powell Spencer & Partners is a partnership registered in England & Wales. The Registered Office is 270 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 2BT.

Powell Spencer & Partners is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under registration number 57736.

Disclaimer

Nothing in this website constitutes legal advice. The information and opinions expressed in this website should not be relied on or used as a substitute for legal advice.

Whilst Powell Spencer & Partners has taken all reasonable care to ensure that the materials contained in this website are accurate at the date of publication, no liability is accepted for any errors or omissions or for the information being out of date, or for any loss caused by reliance on any statement contained in this website.

This website contains links to other websites and to material contained on other websites. Powell Spencer & Partners is not responsible for the content of such websites and disclaims all liability in respect of such content.

Powell Spencer & Partners reserve the right to prohibit any link from another website to materials or information on this website.

Powell Spencer & Partners cannot, nor does it, guarantee or warrant, that access to its website (or any part of it) will be uninterrupted and accepts no liability in this respect. In addition, whilst Powell Spencer & Partners makes all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses from this website, it cannot ensure that its website will be free of viruses and does not accept any liability in this respect. You are therefore recommended to take all appropriate safeguards before downloading information from this website.

This disclaimer and any claim based on use of information from this website shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and by using this website, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.

Copyright

The content and design of this website are subject to copyright owned by Powell Spencer & Partners. No part of this site may be reproduced or transmitted for any purpose without the express permission of the Partnership.

Data Protection

How We Use Your Data

Powell Spencer & Partners is registered with the Information Commissioners Office. We will use the information that you give us to provide you with legal services, as per your instructions. We will keep your information confidential and will only use it for the purpose(s) for which it was provided or as is permitted in law.

Sharing Information

If you are a client under the legal aid scheme then we may be required to share some or all of that information with the Legal Aid Agency and / or with our quality assurance auditors.

We may have to share some or all of your information with other third parties. This may include barristers; experts; and others who we need to instruct to assist us with your matter, the Legal Ombudsman (if you complain about our services) and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the statutory body that regulates solicitors). In doing so we will always take care to ensure that your information remains confidential and safe. We will liaise with you during your case about which experts, barristers and other third parties we instruct on your behalf.

Your Rights

You have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation and these include the right to be informed what information we hold about you (though obviously it is likely that you will have provided with such information as we hold). You also have the right to request a copy of any information about you that we hold at any time, and also to have that information corrected if it is inaccurate.

For information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of our information, and to exercise your rights to access information we hold on you, please contact us. Similarly, if you believe that the information we hold is wrong or out of date, please let us know and we will update it. The person in this firm responsible for data protection is Greg Powell, Managing Partner and enquires and requests can be made by telephone 0207 604 5600 by email enquries@psplaw.co.uk or in writing to Powell Spencer & Partners, 270 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 2BY

How Long Will We Hold Your Data?

We will only hold your information for as long as necessary to provide you with legal services and then for only so long as we are required either contractually or under our regulatory obligations. This will not likely be more than six years after the end of your case / matter. After this time, we will confidentially destroy all information that we hold about you other than your name, address and date of birth which we will be obliged to continue to hold for the purposes of ensuring that we never act for another client where doing so would conflict with our obligations of confidentiality to you.

Our full Privacy Notice is available on our website at https://www.psplaw.co.uk/privacy-policy or on request.