Pure Law is a trade name of Net Lawman Ltd.
This web site is operated by Net Lawman Limited, a company incorporated in England, of
Astons Barn, North Green Road
Pulham St Mary, IP21 4YF
Email: See contact page
Pure Law cannot act for you until you have agreed to these terms and conditions. They represent the contract between you and Pure Law (“us”, “we”, etc). By instructing Pure Law in any way, you agree to be bound by them. No change can be made to these terms unless the changed agreement is in writing, in hard copy, signed by both us; or set out in email messages, to and from each other. This agreement binds both you and us as soon as you become a client. This agreement may be changed at any time. When it is changed, your own contract is not changed. The version posted here at the time you instructed us continues to be valid. The new version is valid for all new instructions from you and from others.
- Interpretation
In this document . . .
“Content” means information in any form published on our web site by us or any third party with our consent or downloaded by you from our web site.
“Our Web Site” means the entire computing hardware and software installation that is or supports Our Web Site including any communication or peripheral system.
“Report” means a research report provided by us as a Service.
“Service” or “Services” means all the services we provide, whether or not from Our Web Site.
- Our paramount aim . . .
is to provide you with a quality legal research Service so as to enable you to operate your business as smoothly and profitably as possible. We are confident we shall provide a high quality Service at all times. We greatly value your business, and would not wish to think you have any reason to be unhappy with us. If however you have any question or concern about our work for you, please address it by email to us by our contact page. We do not publish e-mail addresses to prevent automatic pickup and use for spamming us.
- Information you give us
You agree that you have provided, and will continue to provide accurate, up to date, and complete information about yourself. We need this information to provide you with our Services.
- Our contract
4.1 You become a client when we both agree that you are a client. So you become a client only when:
4.1.1 you have sent a completed instruction to us through Our Web Site and paid for the Service you have ordered and
4.1.2 we have responded in a manner indicating acceptance, for example by providing or starting to provide the advice or information or document you have requested.
4.2 You also become a client or customer when we provide Service to you in expectation of payment but before you have actually paid.
4.3 You cease to be a client when we have provided the Service for which you have paid
OR
When our contract with you is concluded on the first to happen of:
4.3.1 your receipt of the Services you have bought, by any means;
4.3.2 our sending of the Service by e-mail and not receiving notification from our Service provider of non-delivery;
4.3.3 our completion of any task or Service for which you have paid us. If there is any doubt as to when this is, or was, then our decision is final;
4.3.4 our having worked for the amount of time for which you have paid us, even if the work is unfinished.
As a result you are not a client for the time between our completing one piece of work for you and starting another. Each piece of work is a new retainer which terminates when that work is done.
4.4 There is no contract between us for any free Service, so you do not become a client by using any free Service and we are not liable to you in any way resulting from your use of any free Service.
4.5 Your instructions to us terminate automatically each time we complete work for which you have paid us. If we should give advice on the same case at a subsequent time, such advice constitutes a separate contract and does not retrospectively extend the first contract for our Services.
4.6 Prices for business Services are exclusive of any applicable value added tax or other sales tax.
4.7 The price of any Service may be changed by us at any time. We will never change a price so as to affect the price charged to you at the time when you buy a Service.
4.8 Services will be delivered by your free download, by e-mail or by both of these, at our choice.
4.9 You agree that you are bound by these terms (or the latest version of them) for all future contracts with us, whether ordered through Our Web Site or in some other way.
4.10 You now agree that you commit a breach of this contract if you seek repayment of money paid to us by asking your credit card provider to credit back a payment made to us, without attempting to seek repayment from us first. In that event, you agree that you will owe us first the sum charged to us by our merchant Service provider (£20 per transaction at 1st July 2007) andsecondly a sum based on time spent at £100 per hour in dealing with your breach. You also agree that this provision is reasonable.
- Delivery of the Services
5.1 Services will be delivered within an estimated time frame. You may cancel any undelivered balance at any time, whereupon we will refund the appropriate proportion of your money.
5.2 We accept no responsibility for problems you may have in making payment through a web page of WorldPay, our merchant Service provider or in down-loading any document or other Service.
5.3 If you pay by cheque, we will deliver the Services to you by e-mail or post within five days after clearance of your cheque into our account.
- If you buy as a consumer
If you buy as a Consumer as defined in the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, and only if those regulations apply to your contract with us, then:
6.1 you may have a right to cancel the contract. In that event, we will refund your payment in full by means of the same method as you paid us.
6.2 substitute Services will not be offered under any circumstances because we do not believe it is in your interest that we should do so.
6.3 Free Services are not covered by the Regulations.
- Limitations on our Service
7.1 We make no representation and give no warranty with respect to any of the Services. We do not suggest any Service is suitable for your particular use. Pure Law Reports are provided “without liability”. We are not and do not pretend to be English solicitors.
7.2 Reports drawn to your instruction are appropriate only to the information you have told us about. If you do not give us full information, it is likely that our Report may also be incomplete.
7.3 We are not responsible for any action you or your client decides to take as a result of receiving our Report.
7.4 Our Web Site contains links to other Internet web sites. We have neither power nor control over any such web site. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be liable in any way for the Content of any such linked web site, nor for any loss or damage arising from your use of any such web site.
7.5 We are not liable in any circumstances for special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, loss of data or loss of revenues or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your use of our Services.
7.6 Reports produced by Pure Law are valid only within the jurisdiction of England and Wales. In practice, most Reports are valid in Scotland and Northern Ireland and many are valid in other jurisdictions.
- Content and Intellectual Property Rights
8.1 Pure Law claims all intellectual property it may lawfully claim in all Reports (“PLIP”).
8.2 Pure Law hereby grants a licence to you to use any Report for any number of your clients in any way you wish, provided the contents of the Report are presented to your client as your own work or incorporated in your own work.
8.3 You may not re-sell PLIP or present it in any way as a free resource or as part of a collection or anthology of law.
8.4 All ownership rights and intellectual property rights in the Content whether provided by us or by any other Content provider shall remain the sole property of us and / or the other Content provider. We will strongly protect our rights in all countries.
- Pure Law charges
9.1 Our Service requires payment in advance in every case.
9.2 Charges are fixed whenever reasonably possible.
9.3 When we cannot provide a firm price, we will charge by the hour. In that case all work done, including all letters, e-mails, faxes and telephone calls made and received will be charged on a time basis in minimum units of one tenth of an hour.
9.4 Estimates of money will be provided to you wherever possible.
9.5 Our hourly charging rate at 01 January 2007 is £90.
- Prepayment account
10.1 You may pay us for a single Report or you may make payment in advance for any number of Reports.
10.2 We operate a system of discounts based on the amount paid at any one time. A discount will be given by our crediting your account with an additional sum, the amount of which will relate to the sum paid by you. The amount of discount is published on Our Website and may vary from time to time.
- Storage of Reports and communications
We are not obliged to keep copies of communications between us, nor papers you send to us in any connection. You should therefore never send original papers to us. In practice, we will endeavour to keep soft copy of advice given, for our own benefit. You are strongly advised to print and retain a copy of all communications between us.
- Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against any claim or demand, including reasonable lawyers’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising in any way out of your use of Our Web Site, or the infringement by you, or by any other person using your computer, of any intellectual property or other right of any person.
- Severability
If any of these terms is at any time held in any jurisdiction to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then it shall be treated as changed or reduced, only to the extent minimally necessary to bring it within the laws of that jurisdiction and to prevent it from being void and it shall be binding in that changed or reduced form. Subject to that, each provision shall be interpreted as severable and shall not in any way affect any other of these terms.
- Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
Nothing in any contract to which we are a party shall confer any right to any person not a party to a contract.
- No Waiver
No waiver by us, in exercising any right, power or provision hereunder shall operate as a waiver of any other right or of that same right at a future time; nor shall any delay in exercise of any power or right be interpreted as a waiver.
- Dispute Resolution
In the event of a dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms or any contract between you and us, then you agree to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
- Governing Law
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England.
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