Website management

Website management

Any business with a website will need to comply with various rules and regulations. The nature of these rules and regulations will vary depending on whether the website is business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C), and whether the website offers the sale or supply of services or simply just the provision of information or other content. Some of the issues that businesses face when selling online include inadvertent contract formation, complying with e-commerce legislation, data protection and e-privacy law and online advertising and marketing law.

SRA requirements

Pricing information

Law firms are required to publish information on their website on the prices they charge and what these cover. This does not apply to all legal services, but only to:

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five categories of services offered to members of the public—residential conveyancing, uncontested UK probate and estate administration, immigration applications and appeals (excluding asylum), minor motoring offences and employment tribunals (employee claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal)
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three categories of services offered to business—debt recovery (up to £100,000), employment tribunals (defending claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal) and licensing applications for business premises

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