1. General

These terms of use (“Terms of Use”) apply to the entire contents of www.harrishagan.com (the “Website”). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using the Website. By using this Website, you are deemed to have read, understood and accepted these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you must cease using the Website immediately.

The Website is operated by Harris Hagan (“we, “us” or “our”) of 6 Snow Hill, London, EC1A 2AY, which is a partnership with VAT registration number 832 7857 01. Harris Hagan is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA ID: 401231) whose rules can be found here.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms of Use for future reference.

2. Licence

Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Website and all materials published on the Website (including without limitation, photographs and graphical images) are owned by Harris Hagan or its licensors. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from them Website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on the Website. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status, copyright and trademark notices (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on the Website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated). You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to the Website. You must not use any part of the content on the Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Any use of printed copies and downloaded extracts, materials, or data from the Website for any purpose other than as permitted by these Terms of Use, is prohibited. If you breach these Terms of Use, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website.

Other than as expressly permitted by these Terms of Use, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission.  Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

3. Prohibited uses

You may use the Website for lawful purposes only.

4. Disclaimer

The content accessible via the Website is for information purposes only and is no substitute for obtaining specific legal advice. If you require any legal advice or further information, please speak to your usual contact at Harris Hagan.

While we endeavour to ensure that the information on the Website is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the Website. We may make changes to the material on the Website at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.

The material on the Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide you with the Website on the basis that we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which, but for these Terms of Use might have effect in relation to the Website.

We do not guarantee that the Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business and operational reasons.

5. Bugs and viruses

We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access the Website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of- service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

6. Our liability

We, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Website), and any of our partners, consultants or employees exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, sales, business, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with the Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use, reliance upon or the results of use of the Website, any websites linked to the Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website or your downloading of any material from the Website or any websites linked to the Website.

Nothing in these Terms of Use shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

7. Third party websites

Where the Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.

You may link to our home page from a third party website or resource, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. However, you must not (a) establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists; or (b) establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us.

8. Governing law and jurisdiction 

We process personal information about you in accordance with our Privacy Polcy.

We also use cookies to collect certain information about your use of the Website. For further information, please see our Cookie Policy.

9. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these Terms of Use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

10. Changes

We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this page on the Website. You should check these Terms of Use every time that you use the Website because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms of Use may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at the Website.

11. Contact us

If you have any concerns about the information that appears on the Website, please contact Lisa Bridger.

These Terms of Use were last updated on 11 January 2023.