WHAT DOCUMENTS WE NEED TO SEE AND WHY

We will ask you to bring certain documents to your first meeting with us.  We need to see these documents to satisfy the requirements of various regulations or practices that govern our work, as outlined below.

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Commonly known as the ‘Money Laundering Regulations’, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 requires solicitors (among others) to adequately identify their clients.  Therefore, we are obliged to check that you are who you say you are and that you live at the address you have given us.

In order to do this we will ask you to provide evidence of identity in the form of:

  • your passport;
  • a current full UK driver’s licence;
  • a current photo-card driver’s licence;

and to show you are living at the address you have given us, we will need to see:

  • a recent utility bill;
  • a bank\building society statement;
  • a current tenancy agreement.

We will take copies of these documents to hold on our file to confirm that we have taken the appropriate steps to identify you and return the originals to you.

Legal Expense Insurance

Before you enter into a Conditional Fee Agreement to fund your claim, we are expected to consider with you all the relevant funding options available to you and to ensure that we consider all the associated costs risks.  

As part of this consideration, we must make ourselves aware of any legal expense insurance you may already have as part of any insurance policies you hold.  Therefore, we will ask you to show us:

  • your household contents policy;
  • your buildings insurance policy;
  • your motor insurance policy.

We will also ask to see the terms and conditions of any credit card(s) you may have because legal expense insurance is sometimes included within these.  We are not concerned with your level of debt or your credit rating – this is simply a check to satisfy the requirements of advising you in terms of funding your claim.

If you have legal expense insurance included in any of the above policies or terms and conditions, we will photocopy the relevant parts of the document and return the originals to you.

  

The services of the Firm are provided by Solicitors of England and Wales regulated by the Law Society.

The Law Society's rules can be accessed by clicking on the following link:  www.sra.org.uk

  

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