These Terms of Use (“these Terms”) apply to all visitors to this website (“our Site”), including members of the public, solicitors and barristers (“you”).

By accessing or using our Site you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use our Site.

References to “we”, “us” or “our” are to PODLAW.

1. Privacy and Cookies

Our separate Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy explain how we collect and use personal information and cookies when you use our Site.

2. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The version posted on our Site is the current version and applies from the date it is published.

3. User eligibility

We will only knowingly provide services to persons that can lawfully enter and form contracts under applicable law.

By requesting a service on our Site, including making an enquiry, you warrant that you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts and that you are at least 18 years old.

4. Intellectual Property

Unless stated otherwise, we (or our licensors) own the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Site and its content. You may view, download and print pages for your own lawful use in accordance with these Terms. You do not acquire any ownership rights. Some content may be owned by third parties and used under licence.

If you use our Site in breach of these Terms, we may revoke the license granted to you and reserve all our rights, including but not limited to the right of termination referred to below.

5. Trademarks

PODLAW and related names and logos are our trademarks. Unless you have obtained explicit written consent from the holder (either from us or the appropriate third party), we do not give permission for use of any such trademark, service mark or trade name by any person other than the holders. Any such use may constitute an infringement of the relevant holder's rights.

6. Permitted Use

You may use our Site for lawful purposes:

· Members of the public: for personal, non-commercial use.

· Solicitors and Barristers: for professional use in connection with your practice.

You may print or download limited extracts for the purposes above, provided you keep all copyright and other notices intact. No print-out or electronic copy of any part of our Site or its content may be used in any litigation, arbitration or tribunal proceedings.

7. Prohibited Use

You may not:

· copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, sell, rent, lease, loan or otherwise make available any part of our Site or its content except as permitted above.

· use our Site or its content to create or contribute to any database, information service, storage and retrieval system or similar resource for commercial distribution (by sale, licence, subscription or otherwise).

· misuse our Site (for example by knowingly introducing viruses, attempting unauthorised access, or interfering with its operation).

8. Documents and Information on our Site

We may make various documents available on our Site. Such documents and other information contained on our Site are provided for general information only, free of charge, and without any warranty (express or implied) as to suitability, completeness, accuracy or currency. They do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied on as such. You are responsible for obtaining appropriate professional advice for your circumstances.

9. Linking to our Site

You may link to our Site provided that:

· you obtain prior written consent from us;

· you do not frame our Site or remove/obscure any copyright, trademark or other notices;

· your website does not contain unlawful material; and

· you remove the link promptly if we ask you to.

10. External Links

Our site may contain links to third-party websites, which are outside our control. We do not accept responsibility for the content of such websites nor do we accept responsibility or liability for losses or penalties that may be incurred as a result of your use of links to other websites or reliance on the content of other websites to which our Site is linked or to which you are directed.

11. Availability, Disclaimers and Liability

We aim to keep our Site available and the content up to date, but we do not guarantee or warrant that our Site will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for any loss or damage arising from or in connection with your use of (or inability to use) our Site or reliance on its content.

12. Termination

Either we or you may terminate these Terms upon notice to the other if the other is in material breach of these Terms.

If you are in material breach of these Terms we may (in our sole discretion) upon notice to you suspend, limit your access to or terminate your use of our Site.

If we or you terminate your use of our Site, we may delete any materials relating to your use of our Site on our servers or otherwise in our possession.

13. Severability

If any clause or part of these Terms shall be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it/they shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and all other clauses or parts of these Terms shall remain in full force and continue to be binding and enforceable. 

14. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire understanding and agreement between you as us regarding use of our Site and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings between you and us regarding use of our Site.

15. Third Parties

Notwithstanding anything else in these Terms, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to any contract between you and us, and no contractual rights are conferred on any third parties.

16. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Northern Ireland, and the courts of Northern Ireland have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising therefrom.

17. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact PODLAW via the contact details provided on our Site.