You become a client when we both agree that you are a client. So you become a client only when:

You also become a client or customer when we provide a document or advice or information to you in expectation of payment but before you have actually paid.

You cease to be a client when we have provided the Service for which you have paid OR
When our contract with you is concluded on the first to happen of:

As a result you are not a client for the time between our completing one piece of work for you and starting another. Each piece of work is a new retainer which terminates when that work is done.

There is no contract between us for any free Service, so you do not become a client by using any free Service and we are not liable to you in any way resulting from your use of any free Service.

Your instructions to us terminate automatically each time we complete work for which you have paid us. If we should give advice on the same case at a subsequent time, such advice constitutes a separate contract and does not retrospectively extend the first contract for our Services.

Prices for business Services are exclusive of any applicable value added tax or other sales tax. Prices for Services which you may buy as a consumer are inclusive of VAT.

The price of any document or other Service may be changed by us at any time. We will never change a price so as to affect the price charged to you at the time when you buy a Service.

Services will be delivered by your free download, by e-mail or by both of these, at our choice.

You agree that you are bound by these terms (or the latest version of them) for all future contracts with us, whether ordered through Our Web Site or in some other way.

You now agree that you commit a breach of this contract if you seek repayment of money paid to us by asking your credit card provider to credit back a payment made to us, without attempting to seek repayment from us first. In that event, you agree that you will owe us first the sum charged to us by our merchant service provider (£15 at 1st July 2004) and secondly a sum based on time spent at £100 per hour in dealing with your breach. You also agree that this provision is reasonable.

Advice and document drafting and any other Services supplied personally will be delivered within an estimated time frame. You may cancel any undelivered balance at any time, whereupon we will refund the appropriate proportion of your money.

Services supplied instantaneously or almost so, will be delivered by e-mail or by your own down-load from Our Web Site. You may obtain re-delivery as often as you wish for a period of 30 days.

We accept no responsibility for problems you may have in making payment through a web page of WorldPay, our merchant service provider or in down-loading any document or other Service.

If you pay by cheque, we will deliver the Services to you by e-mail within five days (and often very much sooner) after clearance of your cheque into our account.

you may have a right to cancel the contract. In that event, we will refund your payment in full by means of the same method as you paid us. If you buy a will using our wills system, the transaction is regulated by these regulations.

substitute services will not be offered under any circumstances because we do not believe it is in your interest that we should do so.

Free Services are not covered by the Regulations.

You have no right to cancel a contract to buy a document because that transaction cannot be undone.

Employment law advice and other Services may be "delivered" by one of our team of third party employment law specialists. Such a person may be a barrister or solicitor. In that case Net Lawman Ltd is the agent for that person, who acts for you as principal.

These terms and conditions apply to the provision of employment law Services except that the person providing such Services will also be subject to his / her own professional rules and obligations.

Except with regard to provision of employment Law Service by a third party introduced by us, we make no representation and give no warranty with respect to any of the Services. We do not suggest any Service is suitable for your particular use. Net Lawman advice and documents are provided "without liability". We are not and do not pretend to be solicitors.

Documents are provided as template versions for you to edit and change to suit your circumstances. We do not refund money if you decide not to use a document.

Documents may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.

Advice given and documents drawn specially for you are appropriate only to the facts and circumstances you have told us about. If you do not give us full instructions, it is possible that our advice may also be incomplete.

We are not responsible for any action you decide to take as a result of receiving our advice.

The Net Lawman Service does not extend to our handling of your "case", nor will we generally contact any third party on your behalf without a special arrangement. Accordingly, we are under no obligation to undertake any work for you beyond what has been specifically agreed.

Our Web Site contains links to other Internet web sites. We have neither power nor control over any such web site. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be liable in any way for the Content of any such linked web site, nor for any loss or damage arising from your use of any such web site.

We are not liable in any circumstances for special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, loss of data or loss of revenues or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your use of our Services.

Advice given and documents produced by Net Lawman are valid only within the jurisdiction of England and Wales. In practice, most documents are valid in Scotland and Northern Ireland and many are valid in other jurisdictions.

When you "buy" a Net Lawman form or document, what you do in fact buy is a licence to use our document for the purposes of your own business or in a single company. Solicitors may re-use the document as for any legal precedent. You may use it as often as you like subject to the other terms of this agreement.

All ownership rights and intellectual property rights in the Content whether provided by us or by any other Content provider shall remain the sole property of us and / or the other Content provider. We will strongly protect our rights in all countries.

You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part, except as is expressly permitted in this agreement.

It is a condition of your license to use any document that you preserve our copyright notices as far as reasonably possible and at least once on every document.

Charges are fixed whenever reasonably possible.

When we cannot provide a firm price, we will charge by the hour. In that case all work done, including all letters, e-mails, faxes and telephone calls made and received will be charged on a time basis in minimum units of one tenth of an hour.

Estimates of money will be provided to you wherever possible.

Our hourly charging rate at 01 January 2006 is £120.

Our hourly charging rate for travel time at 01 January 2006 is £80.

Our mileage rate at 01 January 2005 is £0.40p per mile.

Other travel costs will be re-charged at cost incurred.

Our employment law services subscription rates at 01 January 2005 are as described in the employment law services section.

Our Service requires payment in advance in every case.

We do not conduct money transactions nor make payments on behalf of clients. We cannot therefore accept or hold money on your behalf, beyond money paid for our immediate Services and / or documents.

If you decide to terminate your instructions to us before we have "spent" all of the money you have sent to us, we shall immediately refund the balance to you.

You agree that you will not, and will not allow any other person to, violate or attempt to violate any aspect of the security of Our Web Site.

You agree that you will in no way modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, copy, or cause damage or unintended effect to any portion of Our Web Site, or any software used on, and that you will not permit any other person to do so.

You understand that any such violation is unlawful in many jurisdictions and that any contravention of law may result in criminal prosecution.

Examples of violations are: