About Porter Dodson
1. Porter Dodson is a legal practice. (1) All references to “Porter Dodson”, “we”, “the firm” and the like should be read as referring to Porter Dodson.
2. We use the word “partner” to refer to a partner of Porter Dodson [or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications]. A list of the Partners can be viewed below.
3. We are regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (Solicitors' Regulation Authority Number 260797) through the Solicitors' Code of Conduct which can be accessed via http://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/code-of-conduct.page. We are licensed in the UK as Solicitors and the applicable rules are the solicitors’ rules (2).
4. Porter Dodson is registered for Value Added Tax or similar taxes in the United Kingdom (registration number GB 186 0391 53).
5. Porter Dodson maintains professional indemnity insurance and has a procedure for making complaints; if you require information about either, please contact Michael Pitt at michael.pitt@porterdodson.co.uk.
Our Services
6. Porter Dodson is not authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 but we are able in certain circumstances to offer a limited range of investment services to clients because we are regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority, which has complaints and redress procedures. We can only provide investment services if they are an incidental part of the professional services we have been engaged to provide. (3)
7. We are not authorised by the Financial Services Authority of England. However, we are included on the register maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activity, which is broadly advising on, selling and administering of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by Solicitors’ Regulation Authority. The register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at: www.fsa.gov.uk/register. (4)
8. Porter Dodson acts as legal adviser; it is not part of our role to give advice on the merits of investment transactions. Any investment decision is for our clients to make and no communication by the firm should be treated as an invitation or inducement to our clients to engage in investment activity.
Use of our website
9. The materials contained on this website are to provide general information. We have used reasonable endeavours to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the contents of the pages on this site but the information does not constitute legal or professional advice and must not be relied on as such. (5) Please speak to one of our Solicitors for specific legal advice.
10. To the extent permitted by law, we do not accept responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information contained in these pages. Furthermore, Porter Dodson does not endorse or accept responsibility for the material of any website referred to or accessed through this site.
11. The content of the website is protected by copyright, trade marks, database right and other intellectual property rights. You may retrieve and display the content on the website on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disk (but not on a server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on the website without written permission from us.
Privacy Policy
12. In some areas of our website we ask you to provide information that will enable us to supply you with our services or contact you after your visit. We will also use this information to contact you to advise you of other services that may be of interest to you.
The information you provide will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to anyone without your consent or unless ordered by a Court of Law.
13. We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with all applicable UK data protection legislation currently in force, both in respect of the personal information supplied by you in general or as part of the recruitment process and in respect of any personal information which we may process.
14. In relation to the information provided by you on the [general enquiries form] you agree that we may use such information in accordance with the purposes for which your information has been obtained.
If you do not wish to receive marketing material from us, please contact Alex Wheatcroft, Marketing Manager, Porter Dodson Solicitors, Central House, Church Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1HH. Tel: 01935 846734.
15. Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request details of the information we hold about you. If you would like details about the personal information we hold about you, please contact Jill Wiseman, IT Manager, Porter Dodson Solicitors, Central House, Church Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1HH. Tel: 01935 846700.
Further details of our and your legal obligations and duties can be found at the Information Commissioner’s Office website.
- Authority: The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002; GN 7.16 Code 2007
- Authority: The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002; GN 7.16 Code 2007
- Authority: art 55A FSMA2000 (FPO) 2001
- Authority: r. 3(3) SFS (COB) Rules 2001
- “Reasonable” under UCTA77.
Porter Dodson Partners
Richard Baker
Richard Beatson
Sue Clarke
Robert Fox
Lesley Gaskell
David Gillam
Stephen Mahoney
Rebecca Marshall
Brian Maxwell
Andrea Nichols
Charles Palmer
David Perratt
Julia Perrins
Michael Pitt
Adrian Poole
Beverley Rockliff
Tony Rose
Ian Sankey
Bruce Weir
Nick Williams
Stephen Wray