Terms of Use

Broadfield – Website Terms of Use

Last updated: August 2026

These terms of use (Terms) explain the basis on which you may access and use broadfieldlaw.com and any connected webpages, microsites and portals operated by us (our Website). Please read these Terms carefully before you use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use our Website.

These Terms should be read together with our Legal Notices, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy, which are available on our Website. Our Legal Notices contain important information about us and our regulatory status and form part of these Terms. Our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy explain how we collect and use information about you and about your use of our Website.

1. About us

1.1 Our Website is operated by Broadfield Law UK LLP, which trades as “Broadfield” (we, us or our). Broadfield Law UK LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC320798, with its registered office at One Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7BL.

1.2 Broadfield is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Full details about us – including our VAT number, our regulatory information, our professional indemnity insurance and how to make a complaint – are set out in our Legal Notices, which are available on our Website and which form part of these Terms.

1.3 You can contact us by email at enquiriesuk@broadfieldlaw.com or by telephone on +44 (0)345 222 9222.

2. Acceptance of and changes to these Terms

2.1 By using our Website you accept these Terms, together with the other terms, notices and policies referred to in them. If you do not accept these Terms, you must stop using our Website.

2.2 We may revise these Terms at any time by amending this page. Any changes take effect when the revised Terms are posted on our Website. Please check this page from time to time to note any changes, as they are binding on you.

3. Accessing our Website

3.1 Our Website is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free. We may suspend, withdraw, restrict or vary all or any part of our Website for business or operational reasons, and may do so without notice.

3.2 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to access our Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

3.3 We may update our Website from time to time and may change the content at any time. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Website, we are under no obligation to do so, and content may be out of date at any given time.

4. Our content is not legal advice

4.1 The content on our Website is provided for general information purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and it does not constitute legal or other professional advice.

4.2 The content on our Website is not a substitute for specific professional advice relevant to your particular circumstances. You should obtain appropriate professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Website.

4.3 Any views or opinions expressed in articles, briefings, updates or other materials on our Website are those of the individual authors, are current only as at the date of publication and may not reflect the views of the Firm. Such materials can rapidly become out of date.

4.4 Although we make reasonable efforts to ensure that the content on our Website is accurate and up to date, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content is accurate, complete, current or free from error or omission.

5. No solicitor-client relationship

5.1 Your access to or use of our Website, and any transmission of information to us through our Website, does not create a solicitor-client relationship between you and us and does not give rise to any duty of care or other professional obligation on our part.

5.2 You will only become a client of the Firm where we have agreed to act for you in accordance with our client engagement terms and after we have completed our standard client and matter acceptance procedures (including any conflict of interest and anti-money laundering checks).

5.3 Any information you send to us through our Website, including through any contact form or generic mailbox, will not be treated as confidential or privileged, may not receive a response and does not create a solicitor-client relationship. Please do not send us any confidential or sensitive information through our Website until we have confirmed in writing that we are able to act for you.

5.4 We do not accept service of court proceedings, other proceedings or formal notices of any kind through our Website or through any contact form or generic mailbox, whether on our own behalf or on behalf of any client, without our specific prior written agreement.

6. Intellectual property rights

6.1 We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website and in the material published on it, including text, graphics, logos, images, and the layout and design of our Website. These rights are protected by laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

7. Permitted use of our content

7.1 Subject to these Terms, you may:

• view and access our Website for your own personal use or for the legitimate internal business purposes of you or your employer; and

• print or download extracts of content from our Website, and copy such extracts to individual third parties for their personal use, provided that you do so only on an occasional basis and free of charge, that you do not modify the content, and that you acknowledge our Website as the source of the content and keep intact any copyright or other proprietary notices.

7.2 You must not:

• use any content on our Website for commercial purposes, or incorporate it into any other work or publication, whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form, without our prior written consent; or

• distribute, sell, sub-license or otherwise exploit any content on our Website for a fee or other consideration.

7.3 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Website must always be acknowledged. If you print off, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the content you have made.

8. Trade marks

8.1 “Broadfield” and our logos are trade marks and/or trading names of Broadfield Law UK LLP. You may not use them without our prior written consent. Other trade marks, product and service names and logos that appear on our Website are the property of their respective owners, and nothing on our Website should be construed as granting any licence or right to use them.

9. Acceptable use

9.1 You may use our Website only for lawful purposes. You must comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and with any reasonable instructions we give you, in relation to your use of our Website.

9.2 You must not:

• use our Website in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or that has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;

• use our Website in any way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or otherwise interfere with the operation of our Website or the access of any other user;

• use any robot, spider, scraper, data-mining or other automated means to access, extract or collect data from our Website without our prior written consent;

• attempt to gain unauthorised access to, or otherwise circumvent any security measures applied to, our Website, the server on which it is stored or any server, computer or database connected to it;

• introduce or transmit any material that is malicious or technologically harmful, including viruses, worms, trojans or other harmful code; or

• advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of our Website, or otherwise benefit commercially from our Website or its content.

9.3 You must ensure that any material you upload, post or otherwise transmit to or through our Website is accurate, lawful, not offensive or defamatory, does not infringe the rights of any third party and is free from viruses and other harmful code.

9.4 We may determine, acting reasonably, whether there has been a breach of this clause 9. Where a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we consider appropriate, including withdrawing your right to use our Website.

10. Viruses and security

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

10.2 You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or by attacking our Website via a denial-of-service attack or otherwise. Any such conduct may be a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with them, including by disclosing your identity to them.

11. Linking to our Website

11.1 You may link to the home page of our Website, provided that you do so in a way that is fair and legal, does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, and does not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

11.2 You must not frame our Website on any other site, or establish a link to any part of our Website other than the home page, without our prior written consent. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission at any time.

12. Third-party links and content

12.1 Where our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information and convenience only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

12.2 We do not endorse, and are not responsible or liable for, the availability or content of any third-party site or resource, or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When you access a third-party site, you do so at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of that site.

13. Our liability

13.1 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

13.2 Because our Website is made available free of charge and for general information only, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations and other terms that might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or otherwise in relation to our Website and its content.

13.3 Subject to clause 13.1, we will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• use of, or inability to use, our Website; or

• use of or reliance on any content on our Website.

13.4 Subject to clause 13.1, we will not be liable for any loss of profits, sales, business or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage. We will also not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your equipment, programmes, data or other proprietary material as a result of your use of our Website, your downloading of any content on it, or your use of any website linked to it.

13.5 This clause 13 does not affect any statutory rights you may have as a consumer that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms affects our liability to a client under the terms of our engagement with that client, which are separate from these Terms.

14. Your privacy and cookies

14.1 We only use information we collect about you and about your use of our Website in accordance with our Privacy Notice and our Cookies Policy, which are available on our Website. Please review those policies to understand our practices.

15. General

15.1 If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary, or, if it cannot be so modified, deleted, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will continue in full force and effect.

15.2 If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you or that you do not have to comply with those obligations.

15.3 These Terms, and the other terms and policies referred to in them, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Website. They do not create, and are not intended to create, any relationship, retainer or contract for the provision of legal services.

15.4 We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation. You may not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else.

15.5 These Terms are between you and us. Except that each member, employee and consultant of Broadfield Law UK LLP may rely on and enforce the exclusions and limitations of liability in these Terms, no other person has any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of these Terms.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

16.1 These Terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them or your use of our Website) are governed by the law of England and Wales.

16.2 The courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of our Website. However, if you are a consumer, you may also be entitled to bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which you live, and nothing in these Terms affects the mandatory protections available to you under the law of that part of the United Kingdom.

17. Contacting us

17.1 If you have any questions about these Terms or our Website, please contact us at enquiriesuk@broadfieldlaw.com or on +44 (0)345 222 9222.