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Barrow & Williams LLP Policies

Refund Policy

When discussing Barrow & Williams LLP (“the Firm”) Refund Policy, it is important to understand how law firms bill their clients. The process is substantially different from purchasing goods from a regular retail store and receiving refunds for returned items.

Most clients who retain the Firm are requested to deposit a set amount of money inclusive of fees and money on account of costs, called a retainer, before any legal work is begun. This is an advance payment for services about to be rendered.

The Firm deposits these funds into its operations account and money on account of costs is transferred to its client account. The amount of the retainer depends on the type of case.

Generally, the Firm handles two types of matters, Non-Contentious and Contentious.   Non-Contentious matters are those where all parties agree to sign the necessary legal documents. For example, you may request that the Firm handle a consent divorce or a consent guardianship. Usually, for both Non-Contentious and Contentious matters, the Firm requires some legal fees and costs to be paid in advance. As the Legal Services Agreement between the client and the Firm clearly states, once the attorney has prepared the documents for the matter, the legal fee has been earned. 

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Some but not all of the legal fee may be refunded even if one party changes his or her mind and refuses to sign the document(s) and only such portion of money on account of costs and expenses not spent or otherwise disbursed may be refunded. This is always a possibility with all matters.

The Firm certainly wishes to amicably resolve any funding dispute that may arise. We therefore encourage our clients to ask their questions or communicate their concerns to us as soon as possible. We in turn will attempt to immediately resolve the matter. We pride ourselves on the quality of services we provide our clients. Through open dialogue with our clients, we will strive to continuously improve upon our services. This statement is subject to review from time to time.

Adopted and updated as of the 1st day of January, 2019.

Privacy Policy

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We know how concerned you are with the confidentiality of your sensitive personal information. It’s our top priority also. That is why we have taken all necessary steps to implement policies and procedures to protect your personal information. We do value our continued relationship.  We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using our Site you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

While using our Site we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information which can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: your name; Personal Information; Log Data. Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site.

Log Data

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol & IP address; browser type; browser version; the pages of our Site that you visit; the time and date of your visit; the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this. The Log Data section is for businesses that use analytics or tracking services in websites or apps, like Google Analytics.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters; marketing or promotional materials and other information.

Cookies

We employ the use of cookies. By accessing Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm, you agreed to use cookies in agreement with the Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm’s Privacy Policy. 

Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user’s details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies. 

Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm’s Website. 

By accessing this Website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page. 

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to the Company’s terms and conditions. “The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to our Company. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the Client and ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of the provision of the Company’s stated services, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing Laws of Belize. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same. 

License

Unless otherwise stated, Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions. 

You must not: 

  • Republish material from Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm
  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm
  • Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm
  • Redistribute content from Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm

Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments prior to their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm, its agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who post their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm shall not be liable for the Comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website. 

Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions. 

You warrant and represent that: 

  • You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
  • The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;
  • The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libellous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy
  • The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media. 

Hyperlinking to our Content

The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval: 

  • Government agencies;
  • Search engines;
  • News organizations;
  • Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses; and
  • System wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Web site.

These organizations may link to our home page, to publications or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.  

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations: 

  • commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;
  • dot.com community sites;
  • associations or other groups representing charities;
  • online directory distributors;
  • internet portals;
  • accounting, law and consulting firms; and
  • educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that: (a) the link would not make us look unfavourably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm, and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information. 

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site. 

If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response. 

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows: 

  • By use of our corporate name; or
  • By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or
  • By use of any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party’s site.

No use of Barrow & Williams LLP Law Firm’s logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement. 

iFrames

Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our Webpages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website. 

Content Liability

We shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on your Website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims that are rising on your Website. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libellous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third-party rights. 

Reservation of Rights

We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions. 

Removal of links from our website

If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us at any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly. 

We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date. 

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will: 

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
  • limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
  • exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty. 

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.