Client Refer Family & Friends Bonus – Terms & Conditions

1. These terms and conditions supersede all previous terms and conditions in relation to this scheme.
2. Subject to compliance with these terms Sheldon Davidson Solicitors will, at their discretion, pay you a fee in shopping vouchers for recommending clients to us.
3. The fee of £50.00 shall be payable to you upon us receiving and accepting instructions to act on behalf of a client you have referred and upon receipt of the signed paperwork to confirm our instructions to act.
4. Sheldon Davidson Solicitors are under no obligation to accept the recommended case.
5. Sheldon Davidson Solicitors reserve the right at its absolute discretion to amend this fee from time to time without notice.
6. You or your friend/family member must email photographs of the disrepair and the client must contact us directly. We are prohibited by law from making payment if you supply the client details to us. They must tell us of the recommendation within 14 days of contacting us.
7. You are an individual and are not acting in the course of any business when making a recommendation. You are not involved in claims management. The scheme will apply only to your friends and family and must not be offered to people you do not know.
8. You will not recommend any clients to us who have been identified by your advertising or producing any publicity in relation to this scheme.
9. You will not ‘cold call’ potential clients or participate in activity which would put Sheldon Davidson Solicitors in breach of the Solicitors Code of Conduct ( https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/standards-regulations/codeconduct- solicitors/ )
10. Our advice to any recommended client will be impartial and not affected or influenced by the recommendation by you.
11. We will not be able to update you on your recommended client’s case, our duty of confidentiality prevents this.
12. We will inform clients when a fee has been paid to you.
13. You must inform the recommended client that you will receive a fee and the amount of that fee for recommending our services.
14. We will not pay you for more than 10 recommendations in any calendar year.
15. We both acknowledge that no element of the fee relates to any personal injury which may or may not relate to a housing case. No fee will be payable where it is illegal to for us to pay a referral fee.
16. We may terminate this arrangement at any time.
17. There will be no fee payable if the recommended client, or Sheldon Davidson Solicitors terminates their retainer prior to settlement of the claim.