In this section, you will find some useful legal and regulatory information about Daniel Taylor  Solicitors, as well as your use of this site.

Daniel Taylor Solicitors is a partnership constituted under the laws of England and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. A copy of the Solicitors’ Code of Conduct 2007, which sets out the rules of professional conduct which apply to solicitors, is available on the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s website, http://www.sra.org.uk. All the partners of Daniel Taylor Solicitors are solicitors, qualified in England and Wales.

Daniel Taylor Solicitors maintains professional indemnity insurance as required by the Solicitors’ Indemnity Insurance Rules. That insurance covers the professional services provided by the firm.

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Daniel Taylor Solicitors is a trading name of Daniel Taylor Solicitors Limited, Company no. 15206908 Registered in England & Wales, Registered Office: 91 Princess Street, Manchester M1 4HT and is Authorised & Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA number 8006755

Reasonable Adjustments Policy

Daniel Taylor Solicitors recognises that it must take reasonable steps in the way that we work with disabled people to ensure they are not disadvantaged in comparison to people who are not disabled. There are legal requirements to make reasonable adjustments which are often complex and different depending on the nature of a person’s individual circumstances.

This policy does not seek to explain how we will approach every situation, it is intended as a general statement of our policy to:-

• Confirm our commitment to improving accessibility for everybody that we deal with;
• Set out some of the basic principles of our legal duty to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled people; and
• Set out the factors that we will take into account in dealing with requests for reasonable adjustments.

Many of the arrangements that we offer for disabled people may also be made available for those who don’t have disabilities. For example, a person may find it easier to read our information leaflets in a larger than usual font.

This policy applies to all Daniel Taylor Solicitors clients, and it’s staff.

A copy of our full Reasonable Adjustments Policy is available on request.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Daniel Taylor Solicitors uses and protects any information that you give.

We adhere to the principles of the data protection legislation as set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

Information you provide to us

Your privacy is important to us. We are committed to keeping the privacy and security of any personal information that we receive from you. By providing personal information such as your name and e-mail address via the forms on this website, you agree to us contacting you with regard to the information you request.

Using your personal information

Personal information which you supply to us may be used in a number of ways, for example:

• Provision of our legal services;
• For quality control and audit inspection including legal and regulatory compliance;
• For human resources if you are an employee or prospective;
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes.

Our work for you may require us to provide information to third parties such as expert witnesses and other professional advisers.  Any third party to whom we disclose information about you will be under an obligation to keep your information secure and not to use it for any purposes other than for which it was disclosed.

We may also be under a duty to disclose your personal data as part of our legal or regulatory obligations.  We may need to disclose data to third parties in order to comply with those requirements or to prevent fraud or money laundering.

Some forms on our website also include a check box asking you for permission for us to add you to our mailing list. This is an opt-in mailing list and your personal information will be used solely by us. Under no circumstances will your personal information be sold or used by any other organisation.

From time to time, we may include links in our e-mails to other websites which we think may be of interest to you.

Each email communication you receive from us will have the option to remove your e-mail address from our list.

Personal information will be stored electronically permanently unless otherwise stated or agreed.

Information we monitor about visitors

During the course of any visit to our site, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a ‘cookie’, are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies facilitate useful features such as the ability to identify whether a user has successfully logged into the site or to find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure.  In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect and process.

Your rights

You have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of data, to object to and request the restriction of processing and to data portability.

Under the DPA 1998, you may ask us to provide you with the details of any personal information that we hold about you. Such request should be sent to our Data Protection Officer in our Compliance Department whose details are below.  We will not charge any fee and we will respond within one calendar month. If we refuse a request, we will explain why and set out your rights to complain.

If you believe that any information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete or you have any comments, queries or requests relating to the use of your personal information, please contact our Data Protection officer. Any information which is found to be incorrect will be promptly corrected.

Changes

We will post any material changes that we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future on this page and, where appropriate, we will notify you of the change by email.

Contact

For further information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information, and your rights to access information we hold on you, please contact our Data Protection Officer on 0161 399 1683

Pricing

Free Consultation

We offer you a free, no obligation, consultation with our solicitor before we provide a quote for the work we will carry out for you.

Fixed Fees

The Solicitors Regulation Authority requires all law firms to provide details of their pricing for the areas of law they practice. Whilst our time is calculated on an hourly basis and subject to the work we are being asked to do, we offer fixed pricing to provide you with the security of knowing the costs you will be asked to pay.

VAT is charged on our fees below and there may be incidental expenses (known as disbursements) required to complete your instructions. These will be agreed with you before work begins on your matter.

Wills – Fixed Fees

We can assist you with drafting your Will on fixed fee basis. Whilst our fees are outlined below, we may be able to offer a discount if you require more than one service (Powers of Attorney for example).

A ‘single’ Will relates to just one person whereas a ‘mirror’ Will are for two people (usually a couple or partners) who have very similar wishes.

A ‘simple’ Will provides for the whole of a person’s estate being left to another adult whereas a ‘complex’ Will includes wishes relating to trusts or guardianships, or where the estate is more complicated.

Lasting Power of Attorney – Fixed Fees

Our fees are tailored to whether you wish to obtain a single Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), or both. We also offer the option of more than one person obtaining either a single LPA or both.

In addition to our fees, there is a registration fee of £82.00 charged by the Office of the Public Guardian. You may be entitled to a reduction or exemption of the registration fee if you are in receipt of means-tested benefits.

Obtaining Grant of Probate

Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide a full estimate for obtaining a Grant of Probate where the estate is complex. If the estate is complex, we will advise you of this and the likely fees following our free consultation with you.

In addition, there may be additional fees required such as the probate application fee (£300.00) and other fees which we will discuss with you before proceeding.

Debt Recovery

We offer a fixed fee service for each stage of the Debt Recovery process.

Following our initial consultation, we will confirm the exact steps covered within each stage.

Personal Injury / Medical Negligence Claims – Conditional Fee (No Win, No Fee) Agreement

Under a Conditional Fee (No Win, No Fee) Agreement (‘CFA’) we agree to cap the amount you pay to a success fee deducted from your compensation at the end of your claim. Provided that you adhere to the terms of the CFA, the success fee will only be payable if your claim is successful. The CFA is supported by Legal Expense Insurance (‘LEI’) which will also be deducted from your compensation unless you already have a policy.

The success fee (usually 25% of your compensation) and LEI will be agreed with you before proceeding with your claim.