Introduction

These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.

1.Disclaimer

This website contains general information about Irish law and about our legal services. The material contained in this website is for general information purposes only and does not constitute a representation or other professional advice.

We invite you to contact us and we welcome your calls, letters and electronic mail. Contacting us does not create a solicitor-client relationship. Liaising with us by using our online booking facility does not create a solicitor-client relationship. Please do not send any confidential information to us until such time as a solicitor-client relationship has been established.

We strive to ensure that the material on this website provides accurate information and that our answers provide you with correct information. However, the materials provided in this website are for general information purposes only, may not reflect the most current legal developments and are not provided in the course of a solicitor-client relationship. They do not constitute legal or professional services or advice.

The website is available without any representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, or otherwise howsoever arising. We cannot be liable for inaccuracies, errors, omissions or misleading information contained on or in this website. All information is subject to change without notice. No liability whatsoever is accepted by Emma E. Brennan Solicitors for any action taken in reliance on information contained in this website.

2.Links

No links to this website may be included in any other website without the express prior written permission of Emma E. Brennan Solicitors. We do not endorse or approve the content of any third party site, nor will we have any liability in connection with any third party site. We are not responsible for the content of external internet sites which link to this site or which are linked to from it. Should you have any privacy concerns about the third-party website, please read their own privacy policy.

3.Licence to use website

3.1  You may:

(a)   view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our website;

(d) [stream audio and video files from our website]; and

(e) [use [our website services] by means of a web browser], subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3 You may only use our website for [your own personal and business purposes], and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)  republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c) show any material from our website in public;

(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our website.

3.6  Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute [our newsletter] in [print and electronic form] to [any person].

3.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

4.Acceptable use

4.1  You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)  use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent];

4.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

4.3       You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

5.Copyright

Copyright (c)2020 Emma E. Brennan Solicitors.

Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

(c) If you wish to use the material on the site in any other way you must seek our written permission.

6. Acceptance of instructions

Criminal Justice Act 1994 and Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010

Before we can accept your instructions and begin work on your, we may be required to obtain information and documents to enable us to verify your identity and to understand the nature and purpose of the work you want us to do for you. Unless you are an existing client of the firm and we hold all relevant and required information about you already, we will advise you separately which information and documents we need you to provide, and will be obliged if you will kindly supply us with them as soon as possible. We do hope that the impact on you will be minimal and that you will promptly provide all requested documents so that we may commence our work on your behalf.

If we are unable to complete the verification process to our satisfaction because of any failure on your part to supply any requested information or documents, we will not be able to carry out any work for you and will be required to refuse your instructions. If this should occur, any payment (if applicable) already made with will not be refundable.

Conflict

Similarly, before we can accept your instructions and begin work on your behalf, we are required to undertake a conflict check to ensure there are no reasons why we may not or should not accept your instructions because either the interests of another client may be in conflict with your interests, or our own interests may be in conflict with your best interests. We will let you know as quickly as we can if we are unable to act for you, and in that event (if applicable) any payment already made will be refunded in full.

Joint instructions

If you want us to act for both you and another person, we will need to conduct a similar verification and checking process in relation to that other person before we can accept instructions from, and begin work on behalf of, both of you. We will also need to assess the risk of a conflict of interests arising between the two of you. If we are satisfied that it is proper and appropriate for us to act for both of you, we will inform you and send a separate engagement letter to the other person. Otherwise, we will contact you to discuss your options.

7.The Book a Consultation Service

The purpose of the Book a Consultation Service is to enable you to book to engage with one of our solicitors to obtain legal advice.

Meetings can be held at either of our offices at Main Street, Ballymahon in the County of Longford, or online.  A consultation can be booked by completing the booking form on the Website.

Further to Clause 6, the Acceptance of Instructions above, the Book a Consultation Service and to meet in person, or communicate via the telephone or the Internet, with one of our solicitors will be subject to the Criminal Justice Act 1994 and Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010.

Before you meet, or communicate via the telephone or the Internet, with one of our solicitors, you will be required to obtain information and documents to enable us to verify your identity. Unless you are an existing client of the firm and we hold all relevant and required information about you already, we will advise you separately which information and documents we need you to provide, and will be obliged if you will kindly supply us with them as soon as possible.  Such information and documents will include but may not be limited to proof of identity by way of photo identification and utility bill by way of proof of address. We do hope that the impact on you will be minimal and that you will promptly provide all requested documents so that we may commence the Book a Consultation Service with you.

If we are unable to complete the verification process to our satisfaction because of any failure on your part to supply any requested information or documents, we will not be able to provide the Book a Consultation Service and will be required to refuse your instructions. If this should occur, any payment already made will not be refundable.

8.Governing Law

This legal notice and terms and conditions of use and all issues regarding this website shall be governed by the laws of Ireland. Your use of this website is subject to these terms and conditions of use. By using this website you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

9.Statutory and regulatory disclosures

Emma Brennan practices under the title and style of Emma E. Brennan Solicitors, a sole trader, and this business name is registered with the Companies Registration Office in the Republic of Ireland.

Our registered office address is at Main Street, Ballymahon in the County of Longford.

Our registered business name number is 645867.

Our VAT number is 7697342H.

We are authorised and regulated by the Law Society of Ireland.

The standards and requirements that we are expected to achieve and to observe can be found in the Solicitors Acts 1954 to 2013.

We hold professional indemnity insurance with. The insurance covers our practice carried out from offices in the Republic of Ireland and will extend to acts or omissions wherever in the world they occur.

Financial services

We are not authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland, which is our financial services regulatory authority, and we do not conduct activities or supply services that would require such authorisation.

However, we are obliged to carry on certain incidental financial services for our clients governed by legislation and The Law Society of Ireland.

This part of our business as with all parts, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by the Law Society of Ireland. The Legal Services Regulatory Authority deals with complaints against solicitors. For more information with regard to regulation of the legal profession in the Republic of Ireland please visit http://www.lawsociety.ie.